In today's world, it's not always easy or safe to invite someone in need to our family seder. What other ways can we help a needy stranger this Passover?
You can help your students understand what it feels like to be in a needy person's shoes and create a project that connects to their Passover seder with help from the student journal Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values.
What can you do to help?
Guide students to choose a volunteer or fundraising project to help people in need. Students can download these pages as inspiration and to document their plans. Encourage students to share their ideas with their families at their seder.
Jewish Holidays, Jewish Values Journal, helps learners in 3rd-5th grade identify the values exemplified in our holiday traditions and explore both ways these values connect to their own lives, and ways they can translate these values into actions. This lesson can be expanded from the teacher materials for the student journal by Rachel Gelfman Schultz and Aliza Zeff.
Love the idea of the student journal? Behrman House just released the first student journal in the new Bible series, Jewish Values in Genesis: If I Could Ask Abraham. From Abraham and Sarah's faith and trust in journeying to a new land, to Rebecca's kindness at the well, to the jealousy and betrayal of Joseph by his brothers, we learn something new about ourselves and our relationships from the ups and downs of our biblical ancestors.
