Your students can now explore the Bible as Jews have done for centuries - by pondering personalizing and wrestling with the text.Oo

Your students can now explore the Bible as Jews have done for centuries - by pondering personalizing and wrestling with the text.

Bring Jewish values to life with an engaging blend of mitzvot middot and timeless Jewish wisdom.

Introduces the key concept of the Jewish community through stories interviews and activities.

24 ready-to-use lesson plans of approximately 50 minutes each make teacher preparation for usingOo The Explorer's Bible Volume 2: From Sinai to the Nation of IsraelOo quick and easy.

24 ready-to-use lesson plans of approximately 50 minutes each make teacher preparation for usingOo The Explorer's Bible Volume 1: From Creation to ExodusOo quick and easy.

24 ready-to-use lesson plans of approximately 50 minutes each make teacher preparation for usingOo A Kid's Mensch HandbookOo quick and easy.

Prayer Companion 1 contains blessings for the home and synagogue, including Shabbat and the holidays, and selected prayers from the Friday evening and Shabbat morning services. Each chapter is tied thematically to the Shalom Ivrit 1 student text.

Beginning Hebrew activities for practice

In this delightful beginning reader children meet Shiri the Llama and learn about her adventures in Kitah Alef. Humorous stories and clever rhymes use a controlled high-frequency vocabulary to entertain children as they build their Hebrew reading confidence. Whimsical illustrations simple sentences and large clear print make this a unique and appealing reader for beginning Hebrew students.

Volume One of this two-volume primer program systematically teaches Hebrew decoding through the first ten of Z'man Likro's twenty engaging and substantial lessons (the next ten lessons are in Volume Two). Includes structured Reading Pages for practice and evaluation as well as creative worksheets for reinforcement. Dictionary included in each volume.

A visit to Israel by Daniel and his parents, a Jewish family, is guided by a scavenger hunt.

The choice of schools that stress Hebrew as a modern language. Progressive vocabulary builds from lesson to lesson as traditional Jewish ideas and values are taught in Hebrew. Contains units on the classroom the home and the family.

Rabbi Stern, the master of modern Jewish liturgy, offers the Passover seder that runs itself in this revision of his best-selling classic, Gates of Freedom. The text is clearly marked so that families with young children can shorten the service, while those who want to deepen their seder experience can enhance it with both traditional and contemporary readings. A dazzling array of commentaries, anecdotes, poems, and songs enrich the Gates of Freedom service, and the compelling computer-generated graphics add the exciting dimension of visual interpretation. Rabbi Eugene Borowitz's inspiring Introduction sets the stage for the evening drama. All the Passover traditions are explained with clarity and insight. Seder participants will find renewed delight in the Passover celebration, as they experience the familiar rituals and text, and discover new meaning, relevance, and inspiration.

Learning the Hebrew alphabet becomes a page-turning adventure as Sam the Detective takes students through an alef bet sleuthing escapade.

Benefits
- Provides a roadmap of tikkun olam
- Teaches students that being Jewish involves both learning and doing
- Provides practical, realistic ways for students to begin their lifelong connection to ethical living
- Highlights values embodied in text sources
- Focuses on the organizations, traditions, and rituals that help us carry out those values
- Enables teachers to make connections between text study and Jewish living
- User-friendly teacher's guide offers suggestions for classroom implementation, with specific suggestions for integrating this material into other curricular units

Student workbook

Teacher edition

InOo Israel Matters leading middle-east authority Mitchell Bard digs deeply into the political cultural and historical forces facing the Jewish state.

Everything the engaged couple needs to know about the Jewish marriage ceremony. Welcome new couples into Jewish life and your congregation. Selecting a date and location for the wedding What is a ketubah? A huppah? A step-by-step guide to a Jewish wedding Life as Jewish newlyweds The perfect gift for the soon-to-be-wed couple.

An ideal course of study before students undertake b'nai mitzvah preparation, The Prophets: Speaking Out for Justice explores the lives of seven prophets and the Jewish values they exemplify. Stories based on biblical texts bring each prophet vividly to life, while narrative provides historical context for considering the challenges faced by the prophets in their own day. Connections to modern-day events and people are explored as well, helping students discover the relevance for today in the ancient messages of our biblical ancestors. Questions throughout the text address students directly, to get them thinking and to draw out their views.

CONTENTS:

1. Introduction

2. Moses: Radical Shepherd of Israel

3. Samuel: Reluctant Kingmaker

4. Elijah: Zealous Critic of the King

5. Amos: Faithful Friend of the Covenant

6. Isaiah: Righteous Spirit of Worship

7. Jeremiah: Persistent Voice of Teshuvah

8. Jonah: Runaway Messenger of Mercy

In simple and moving words this book for the intermediate grades tells the story of the Holocaust.

Discusses the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust, and the aftermath when the Nazi war criminals were brought to trial.

The Hebrew vocabulary from Alef Bet Quest comes to life in this companion reader and workbook. Using 30 of the words students learn in Alef Bet Quest (abba, ima, geshem, hipo, yayin, am) plus 75 new modern Hebrew words (moreh, shulchan, talmid, kiseh, glidah, sefer), students read meaningful Hebrew sentences, solve Hebrew reading riddles, draw pictures to illustrate Hebrew words, phrases, and sentences, and answer questions in Hebrew by reading stories and studying pictures. Created especially to correspond with Alef Bet Quest, the Companion Reader thrills new young Hebrew decoders with the experience of reading--and understanding --modern Hebrew. Ideal to use in conjunction with Alef Bet Quest or as a follow-up toward the end of the school year.