Explore the Jewish Experience with K-12 Resources

This Jewish Holiday Guide and Jewish calendar with dates through 2029 may be used for educational and professional planning purposes.

Dive into this thoughtful children’s book about the Jewish high holidays; students are encouraged to reflect on the year that has passed, including happy times and occasional regrets as well as new friends made and new skills gained.

Experience the rich traditions of Sephardic Jews in Turkey in this children’s book, as a young boy and his cousins prepare for Rosh Hashanah.

Examine Jewish identity by exploring Jewish religion, peoplehood, and ethnicity in this brief video.

Engage your students in a thought-provoking and interactive lesson about the complexity of Judaism and why it is considered an ethno-religion, blending religion, peoplehood, culture, and history.

Take your students on a journey of the Jewish people, examining a story rich in history, shared experiences, love for Israel, and persistence against hatred.

Jews represent a wide range of cultures, languages, ethnicities, races, and religious practices. As Jews have moved around the globe, they have adapted, blended, and preserved traditions, and found new ways to express their culture. This lesson will show your students how different cultures express their Judaism through the foods they eat and the traditions they observe.

Use these resources to weave Jewish voices, perspectives, and experiences of Iranian Jews into ancient and modern world and U.S. history courses.

Examine the persistence of antisemitism after the Holocaust and investigate its modern expressions, which include distortions and denial.

Students will develop social media literacy and learn the skills and strategies needed to engage with social media in a productive, positive, and reliable way.

Watch a video with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American analyst and writer, and Yirmiyaho Danzig, an Israeli-American educator and activist, as they engage in an open, empathetic dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sharing their personal narratives and stories.

Learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict leading up to Israel’s founding in 1948, considering both Israeli and Palestinian perspectives to gain greater cultural and historical literacy, understanding, and empathy.

Teaching the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is critical to understanding current events. This five-lesson curriculum uses primary resources and guided discussion to help students understand how the conflict began and why it endures.

Explore the Jewish value of dissent and the Talmudic tradition of preserving dissenting opinions while considering the challenges to and importance of free speech in today’s America.

Recognize Jewish American Heritage Month with this poster series and accompanying resources.

Enrich your curriculum and enhance classroom instruction with this engaging video library, highlighting 20 important and diverse Jewish stories as part of the Stories That Shaped A Nation lesson series.