Explore our wide variety of lesson plans that address topics such as Jewish women’s involvement in the Civil Rights and Labor movements, the developing role of women in Jewish ritual life, Jewish women’s contributions in fields from art to politics, and so much more! Our lesson plans are highly adaptable; we encourage all users to pick and choose the content that they want to use, and to integrate our lessons into their own curricula. ## Browse Our Curricula [Living the Legacy](/teach/livingthelegacy)[Girls in Trouble](/teach/girlsintrouble)[Go & Learn](/teach/golearn)[My Bat Mitzvah Story](/teach/mbms)[Twersky Winners](/twersky) ## Filter Our Lesson Plans Keyword Topics Activism (24) Religion (22) Politics and Government (18) Education (15) Jewish History (9) Jewish Holidays (7) Performing Arts (7) Media (4) Philanthropy and Volunteerism (4) Art (2) Family (2) Writing (2) Food (1) Curriculum Civil Rights (16) Go & Learn (16) Twersky (14) Girls in Trouble (10) Labor (8) My Bat Mitzvah Story (4) ## [How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/how-does-my-identity-inform-my-actions) ![Union of American Hebrew Congregations Group](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/group-with-thou-shalt-love-thy-neighbor-sign.jpg?itok=iGUgWsHT "Union of American Hebrew Congregations Group") Consider how Jewish experiences and values – in both conscious and unconscious ways – informed the actions of Jews in the Civil Rights Movement, and inform our own allegiances and behaviors. ## [Lilith: Demoness or Heroine?](/teach/girlsintrouble/lilith-demoness-or-heroine) ![Cover Art for "Lilith: Demoness or Heroine?"](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/screen_shot_2017-03-02_at_4.28.08_pm.png?itok=D7Bo4sq0 "Cover Art for "Lilith: Demoness or Heroine?"") Learn about Lilith’s long and varied history, and consider how her story reflects changing perspectives on powerful women. ## [The American Jewess on Liberation and Freedom](/teach/golearn/mar06) ![First Front Cover of "American Jewess," April 1895](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/ajcover.gif?itok=Q--ONHYw "First Front Cover of "American Jewess," April 1895") Investigate what it means for American Jews to celebrate Passover and the Fourth of July in the context of religious and national freedom, by reading an editorial from the April 1897 issue of *The American Jewess*. ## [Our Heroes](/teach/mbms/our-heroes) ![Bella Abzug at a Women Strike for Peace Protest](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/bamega.jpg?itok=b7vbV9n0 "Bella Abzug at a Women Strike for Peace Protest") In this lesson, students have the opportunity to explore different definitions of the word “hero.” They discuss why (and if) heroes are important and do research about individuals they consider to be heroes. Lastly, students are asked to think about which of their own actions could be considered heroic and how they serve as role models for friends, peers, and family members. ## [Tali Puterman](/twersky/puterman-tali) ![Tali Puterman, 2017 Twersky Award Winner](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/tali_headshot.jpg?itok=FVFAgd8O "Tali Puterman, 2017 Twersky Award Winner") Originating from Cape Town, South Africa, Tali Puterman now lives in Boston and works as the Social Justice Educator and Community Organizer at Temple Israel of Boston. Tali received her MA in Educational Studies from Tufts University and her BA from Brandeis University. Reacting to her own experiences of miseducation growing up White in post-Apartheid South Africa attending an Orthodox Jewish day school, Tali challenges students to question and confront injustices and see themselves as Jewish leaders of change. ## [Yedida Kanfer](/twersky/kanfer-yedida) ![Yedida Kanfer, 2016 Twersky Award Winner](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/unknown_0.png?itok=o4hZeS1H "Yedida Kanfer, 2016 Twersky Award Winner") Yedida Kanfer serves as the Coordinator of Education Services at the JFCS Holocaust Center, where she teaches high school students, educators, and the larger community about the Holocaust and patterns of genocide. She also manages the Tauber Holocaust Library. Prior to her position at the JFCS Holocaust Center, Yedida served as a research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and worked for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC. Yedida received her PhD in East European and Jewish history from Yale University in 2011; she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (Russia) and a Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Fellowship. Having studied Russian, Polish, Hebrew, and German languages for research purposes, her favorite language is Yiddish, which she reads and speaks fluently. ## [Eve the Mother](/teach/girlsintrouble/eve-the-mother) ![Cover Art for "Eve the Mother"](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/screen_shot_2017-03-02_at_4.28.38_pm.png?itok=42hFAaeA "Cover Art for "Eve the Mother"") Learn about Eve’s role as the first mother, and consider what her story might teach us about going through a difficult experience without sufficient support. ## [Ariel Horn Levenson](/twersky/ariel-horn-levenson) ![Ariel Horn Levenson](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/ariel_levenson_jpeg.jpg?itok=cjoMAB2l "Ariel Horn Levenson") Ariel is a humanities teacher at a Modern Orthodox middle school. Her lesson plan introduces students to Jewish voices from Colonial America through a teacher role play and encourages students to hone critical analysis skills. Jewish Life in Colonial and Post-Colonial America Through primary source analysis, students examine the experience of being a Jew in colonial and post-colonial American history. ## [Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/community-organizing-i-freedom-summer) ![Heather Booth and Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/Booth_Hamer-photo_1200px.jpg?itok=8j7Jc641 "Heather Booth and Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964") Explore the role of community organizing, Jewish values, and moral conviction in the lives of young civil rights activists as you imagine yourself a participant in Mississippi Freedom Summer. ## [Moving Inward: bringing liberation movements into the Jewish community](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/moving-inward-bringing-liberation-movements-into-jewish-community) !["Sukkot in Connecticut," 1970s](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/BAronSukkotConn_rsz.jpg?itok=EIBRlbdG ""Sukkot in Connecticut," 1970s") Act out, through *tableaux vivants*, the ways Jews took what they had learned from the Civil Rights Movement and other liberation movements and used these insights to change the Jewish community. ## [Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/community-organizing-ii-wednesdays-in-mississippi) ![Polly Cowan and Dorothy I. Height, 1964](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/cowan_mtg.jpg?itok=98er5KVE "Polly Cowan and Dorothy I. Height, 1964") Encounter a little known story of women collaborating across geographic, racial, and religious boundaries through documentary clips of Wednesdays in Mississippi activists. ## [Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/civil-disobedience-freedom-rides) ![Judith Frieze, June 21, 1961](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/FriezeIntakeImage.jpg?itok=A3msIlJq) Discover the story of one young Jewish Freedom Rider and Gandhi's principles of civil disobedience, and prepare your own civil disobedience training video. ## [Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs](/teach/livingthelegacy/labor/bread-and-roses-defining-basic-needs) ![Garment Workers Rehearse a Chorus for ILGWU's Theater, Labor Stage](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/garment-workers_1000px.jpg?itok=3AE7jc3n "Garment Workers Rehearse a Chorus for ILGWU's Theater, Labor Stage") Explore the concept of “Bread and Roses” and ideas about work and dignity, with specific cases on education and culture, hats and clothing, poetry and song, as well as traditional Jewish texts about labor. ## [Julie Rezmovic-Tonti, with Jessica Kirzane](/twersky/rezmovic-tonti-julie) ![Julie Rezmovic-Tonti and Jessica Kirzane](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/rezmovic-tonti-kirzane.jpg?itok=HxLggFsi "Julie Rezmovic-Tonti and Jessica Kirzane") Julie Rezmovic-Tonti teaches middle school Jewish history and serves as Outreach Coordinator at Gesher Jewish Day School in Fairfax, Virginia. She has a BA in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland and an MA in Jewish Studies from Siegal College. She also studied at Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. She lives in Fairfax, Virginia, with her husband, three children, typewriter, pottery wheel, and garden. ## [Benevolent Societies and Tzedakah](/teach/golearn/oct05) !["The Jewish Woman" Magazine Cover, October 1921](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/hscover.jpg?itok=7-p7tkBd ""The Jewish Woman" Magazine Cover, October 1921") Examine different ways that American Jewish women historically—and we today—fulfill the obligation of *tzedakah* (charity) and *gemilut chesed* (acts of loving kindness). ## [Aya Baron](/twersky/baron-aya) ![Aya Baron, 2017 Twersky Award Finalist](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/aya_baron.jpg?itok=GFfcvg_C "Aya Baron, 2017 Twersky Award Finalist") Aya Baron is Wilderness Torah's Youth Programs Director. She joined the staff in 2015 after three years in serving as a lead field instructor. Previously, Aya worked as an educator and program designer at Urban Adamah and Eden Village Camp. She is passionate about cultivating a regenerative Jewish culture, developing rites of passage experiences for youth, and working with adolescent girls. Aya holds a degree in Contemplative Education from Brown University. ## [Imagining Our Future Selves](/teach/mbms/imagining-our-future-selves) ![Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan - cropped](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/elana-kagan-croppedv3.jpg?itok=GF2oA1yr) In this activity, students will explore the importance of the bat/bar mitzvah in the Jewish life cycle. They will examine events that are or will be important to them throughout their lives and will imagine their future selves in order to reflect on their beliefs and hopes for their lives. ## [De facto segregation in the North: Skipwith vs. NYC Board of Education](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/de-facto-segregation-in-north-skipwith-vs-nyc-board-of-education) ![Justine Wise Polier As Young Judge](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/jpport1.jpg?itok=1vk3G2-Z) Investigate the dynamics of segregation in northern schools through a New York City court case ruled on by Judge and Jewish activist Justine Wise Polier. ## [Jewish Values in Action](/teach/mbms/jewish-values-in-action) ![Giving Hands](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/3713942772_323d8df754_o.jpg?itok=InvqOO68 "Giving Hands") In this activity, students will explore their personal values and develop a deeper understanding of how values inform their identities and actions. This activity makes a great compliment to a service learning project, or an introduction to tikkun olam and other actions that are informed by Jewish values. ## [Immigration and Generations: Anzia Yezierska's Children of Loneliness](/teach/golearn/apr07) ![Henry Street Sidewalks](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/wsidwlka.jpg?itok=4JXkNefS "Henry Street Sidewalks") *Children of Loneliness*, a short story by immigrant writer Anzia Yezierska, illustrates how one young woman's struggle to find her own place in American society tears her from her parents and their way of life. ## [Hannah Raises Her Voice](/teach/girlsintrouble/hannah-raises-her-voice) ![Hannah Raises Her Voice Cover Art, cropped](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/hannahs_voice_cropped.jpg?itok=F-uBpSg7 "Hannah Raises Her Voice Cover Art, cropped") Learn how Hannah attempted to change her life by calling on God for help, and consider the power of asking for what you need or want in your own life. ## [Henrietta Szold on Saying Kaddish](/teach/golearn/feb06) ![Israeli Five Lira Note circa 1976-1984](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/hsznote.jpg?itok=a8kxTJd_ "Israeli Five Lira Note circa 1976-1984") In a 1916 letter, Henrietta Szold (the founder of Hadassah) defied Jewish tradition and challenged rituals that exclude women by asserting her right to say *Kaddish* (the Jewish prayer for mourners). ## [Taking Risks, Making Change: Bat Mitzvah and Other Evolving Traditions](/teach/golearn/mar09) ![Sally Gottesman's Bat Mitzvah Invitation, 1975](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/sally_invitation.gif?itok=9ewrjSz5 "Sally Gottesman's Bat Mitzvah Invitation, 1975") The letters from one girl's campaign to have the first Saturday morning Bat Mitzvah in her congregation in 1974 serve as a case study for exploring how we confront controversial issues and make change in our communities. ## [Museum of Family History](/teach/mbms/museum-of-family-history) ![Simchat Torah](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/BAronSimchatTorah_rsz.jpg?itok=f0W_ITm1 "Simchat Torah") In this activity, students learn about a part of their own family history and have the opportunity to practice interviewing and writing skills. To showcase their learning, students curate their own museum of family history artifacts. ## [Jews and Agricultural Labor](/teach/livingthelegacy/labor/jews-and-agricultural-labor) ![Federation of Jewish Farmers of America Convention Booklet, October 1909](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/jewish_farmers_of_america_agricultural_fair.jpg?itok=iV6D2Cix "Federation of Jewish Farmers of America Convention Booklet, October 1909") Discover the little-known history of American Jewish farming and explore the contemporary resurgent Jewish interest in food justice. Analyze traditional and modern texts about Jewish values and food production and consumption, and design your own vision for how society should produce, distribute, and consume food. ## [Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now](/teach/livingthelegacy/labor/workers-and-their-allies-then-and-now) ![Seal of the National Women's Trade Union League, 1908-1909](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/wtul_seal.jpg?itok=oB8OsBKH "Seal of the National Women's Trade Union League, 1908-1909") Through the history of mutual aid societies, unions, and settlement houses, as well as contemporary organizations working for labor rights, consider the ways Jews have supported one another and also worked in solidarity with others to repair the world. ## [Michelle Boyle](/twersky/michelle-boyle) ![Michelle Boyle](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/michelle_boyd.jpg?itok=wg8m3WOd "Michelle Boyle") Michelle is sixth-grade Humanities Teacher and Middle School Advisor & Community Engagement Coordinator at the Jewish Community Day School in Watertown, MA. Her lesson plan, “What Does It Mean To Be A Jewish Feminist?,” is an elective for students in grades 5–8, who learn how women and men might define themselves as feminists, then conduct independent research and present their findings to the class. **What Does It Mean To Be A Jewish Feminist?** ## [Hurricane Katrina: Community Responsibility and Tikkun Olam](/teach/golearn/jan07) ![Object #662, "Tzedek Means Justice," from Katrina's Jewish Voices](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/tzedek-means-justice.jpg?itok=FoLumitw "Object #662, "Tzedek Means Justice," from Katrina's Jewish Voices") Explore Hurricane Katrina as an example of how Jews respond to catastrophe. Gail Chalew, a Jewish reporter from New Orleans, tells the story of Haley Fields, a thirteen year old girl from Los Angeles, who came up with her own unique way of helping those in need. ## [Moments of Personal Resistance](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/moments-of-personal-resistance) ![Sign for Colored Waiting Room, 1943](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/1943_Colored_Waiting_Room_Sign.jpg?itok=mShYo2tN "Sign for Colored Waiting Room, 1943") Examine how individuals take stands against racism and injustice using an essay by Grace Paley and three other short vignettes of individual protest. ## [A Young American Jew in Israel, 1947-1948](/teach/golearn/apr08) ![Zippy Porath and other American students, 1947](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/porath_photo.jpg?itok=6WQEgwdT "Zippy Porath and other American students, 1947") Learn about the founding of the State of Israel from the perspective of Zipporah Porath, a young American woman who joined the Zionist effort in 1947. ## [Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home](/teach/livingthelegacy/labor/contemporary-jewish-labor-campaigns-labor-movement-begins-at-home) ![Boston Workmen's Circle Demonstration at Trader Joe's, December 11, 2011](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/boston_workmens_circle_demonstration_at_trader_joes_1000px.jpg?itok=sfjLw7D5 "Boston Workmen's Circle Demonstration at Trader Joe's, December 11, 2011") Explore contemporary Jewish labor campaigns on issues such as the living wage and the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, and analyze how and why Jewish organizations are advocating in solidarity with oppressed workers. ## [Judith in the Enemy’s Tent](/teach/girlsintrouble/judith-in-the-enemys-tent) ![Cover Art for Judith in the Enemy’s Tent, Cropped](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/judith_tent_cropped.jpg?itok=jrUn2JBD "Cover Art for Judith in the Enemy’s Tent, Cropped") Learn about Judith’s bravery in the face of extreme danger, and consider how her story can inspire us to harness our own hidden power. ## [Miriam in the Desert](/teach/girlsintrouble/miriam-in-the-desert) ![Cover Art for "Miriam in the Desert", cropped](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/miriam_cropped_0.png?itok=N1Nu2m7X "Cover Art for "Miriam in the Desert", cropped") Consider Miriam’s experience of exile and investigate the parallels between her story and moments of alienation and isolation in your own life. ## [Exploring My Identity](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/exploring-my-identity) ![Jacob, by Dawoud Bey, 2005](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/jacob.jpg?itok=IFViRNj4) Explore the complexities of our own identities, and how these identities shape the way we view and act in the world. ## [Wrestling with God and Jewish Tradition](/teach/golearn/jan06) ![Self Portrait by Helène Aylon](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/ayalon_selfportrait-lg.jpg?itok=GrUrEGz6 "Self Portrait by Helène Aylon") Use the artwork of Jewish feminist artist Hel√®ne Aylon to explore how we, as individuals and a community, grapple with God and Jewish tradition. ## [From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective](/teach/livingthelegacy/labor/from-suffering-to-action-from-individual-to-collective) ![Small Garment Factory circa 1910](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/photo_of_a_small_garment_factory_1000px.jpg?itok=d3ySHVMJ "Small Garment Factory circa 1910") Examine inter-generational relationships among Jewish immigrants, and the role of work and workers’ youth culture in the Americanization process. Use art and writing to explore your own identity formation. ## [Ruth's Journey](/teach/girlsintrouble/ruths-journey) ![Cover Art for "Ruth's Journey", cropped](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/ruth-cover-image-cropped.jpg?itok=saaOUJOq "Cover Art for "Ruth's Journey", cropped") Learn how Ruth changed her life by making a series of bold choices, and examine how taking risks, small or large, might lead to positive transformations in your own life. ## [Power, Privilege, and Responsibility](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/power-privilege-and-responsibility) ![Mayor William Hartsfield with Rabbi Jacob Rothschild After the Bombing of The Temple, Atlanta, Georgia, October 15, 1958](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/TheTemple-_bombing_photo_-_have_permission.JPG?itok=mbNQj9wk) Analyze how power and privilege shape our relationships and involvement in social justice and activism, using sources including clips from the film *Driving Miss Daisy*. ## [Ray Frank's Yom Kippur Sermon, 1890](/teach/golearn/sep05) ![Ray Frank in San Francisco, circa 1897](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/rfport4.jpg?itok=CAjBr-77 "Ray Frank in San Francisco, circa 1897") Read the 1890 Yom Kippur sermon by Ray Frank, the first Jewish woman to preach formally from a pulpit, and consider what unites and divides the Jewish people both historically and today. ## [Ramona Brand](/twersky/ramona-brand) ![Ramona Brand](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/ramonaheadshot15.jpg?itok=RyAeoegr "Ramona Brand") Ramona is Director of Education at Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond, VA. Her winning lesson plan, “Our World Through a Jewish Lens,” introduces students in grades 8–10 to photojournalist Ruth Gruber, whose work was influenced by her Jewish identity, and asks how they might express a Jewish point of view through photography. **Our World Through a Jewish Lens** ## [Jewish Diversity and Innovation: The View from the Kitchen](/teach/golearn/nov06) ![Cookbooks That Tell Stories](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/book_covers72.jpg?itok=VFNtBDkw) Discover how recipes can tell stories about Jewish history and its ever-changing rich cultural diversity. ## [Rabbi Reuven Travis](/twersky/reuven-travis) ![Rabbi Reuven Travis](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/reuven-travis.jpg?itok=KTw5XI02 "Rabbi Reuven Travis") Reuven is a religious studies and American history teacher at a Modern Orthodox high school. His lesson plan uses primary sources as the basis for exploring Jewish experiences from two important tactics of the Civil Rights Movement: The Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer. **Civil Disobedience and the Freedom Rides** Explore Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights movement, and consider how we can use this knowledge to combat ongoing institutionalized racism with civil disobedience. ## [Rabbi Michael Rothbaum](/twersky/michael-rothbaum) ![Rabbi Michael Rothbaum](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/michael-rothbaum-picture.jpg?itok=TxwZJy7q "Rabbi Michael Rothbaum") Michael is a rabbi and educator at Beth Chaim Congregation in Danville, CA. His lesson plan, “Selling Soap, Smashing Sexism, Seeing Ourselves” uses Torah and images of art and advertising to teach students about how women are viewed in the media, as well as to create their own artwork inspired by Jewish artist Barbara Kruger. **Selling Soap, Smashing Sexism, Seeing Ourselves** In this lesson, students explore the work of Jewish artist Barbara Kruger, and learn how to look critically at images of women in advertising. ## [Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/jews-and-civil-rights-movement-whys-and-why-nots) ![Neo-Nazi Demonstration](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/Photo-of-neonazis---AJA.jpg?itok=euXy0xk0 "Neo-Nazi Demonstration") Assume the roles of Southern Jews participating in a Temple board meeting on whether or not to support Northern Jewish activists staging a protest in town. ## [Identity, Independence, and Becoming American Jews](/teach/livingthelegacy/labor/identity-independence-and-becoming-american-jews) !["The Return from Toil," July 1913](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/themasses.png?itok=mPPEgbAA) Examine inter-generational relationships among Jewish immigrants, and the role of work and workers’ youth culture in the Americanization process. Use art and writing to explore your own identity formation. ## [Housewives and Consumer Organizing](/teach/livingthelegacy/labor/housewives-and-consumer-organizing) !["Women Resume Riots Against Meat Shops" New York Times, May 17, 1902](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/kosher_meat_boycotts_nyt_1.jpg?itok=9HO1q2lU ""Women Resume Riots Against Meat Shops" New York Times, May 17, 1902") Consider the impact of consumer organizing by analyzing the day-to-day actions of the key players in the 1902 kosher meat boycott. ## ["We Have Found You Wanting:" Labor Activism and Communal Responsibility](/teach/golearn/sep08) ![Rose Schneiderman](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/schneiderman_rally.jpg?itok=_cYQqCpR "Rose Schneiderman") After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, labor rights activist Rose Schneiderman made a famous speech which provided the basis for investigating our communal and individual responsibilities for the well being of others in our midst. ## [Confirmation: Joining the Legacy](/twersky/deborah-cohen) ![First Confirmation Class, Vine Street Temple, 1869 ](/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_item/public/mediaobjects/confirmation-class-vine-st-temple.jpg?itok=txc3u7wL) Through learning key aspects of the history of Confirmation, students will develop a sense of connection to past Confirmands, and thus see their Confirmation as connected to Jewish heritage. ## [Growing tensions I: Black-Jewish Relations](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/growing-tensions-i-breakdown-of-blackjewish-alliance) Analyze how underlying rifts in the relationship between African Americans and Jews brought these groups into more overt conflict in the late 1960s, with a focus on the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school crisis and a poetry slam activity. ## [Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?](/teach/livingthelegacy/civilrights/jews-and-african-americans-siblings-in-oppression) Explore and interrogate the identification between Jews and African-Americans against the backdrop of the Passover seder. 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