Exploring our Jewish Identity

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Exploring our Jewish Identity
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American Students contribution to the project
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November 2001

• Surveys Activities
• "What make you feel a Jew"?
• Participants Students from Charlotte and
  Students from Democratic, Gvanim and Katzir
  school.

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Question Examples

• How important is for you to LEARN FROM HOLY BOOKS
  LIKE THE TALMUD AND TORAH?
• How important is to for you to CELEBRATE THE
  BAR/BAT MITZVA?
• How important is to for you to SERVE THE ARMY?
• How important is to for you to MORALY SUPPORT
  ISRAEL STATE?
• How important is to for you to REMEMBER THE
  HOLOCAUST?
• How important is to for you to MARRY ONLY A JEW?
• The questions were for the students as much
  surprising as the results were.

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December

• Activity Holocausts forum disscussion
• Exploring the development of racism
• Participants
• Charlotte and Pinellas students lt-gt
• students from Democratic , Gvanim Katzir
  school

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Question Examples

• What examples of Racism and prejudice have you
  observed?
• Is there any value in continuing to search for
  Nazi war criminals and bringing them to trial,
  when most are feeble old men who are unlikely to
  cause any more harm to anyone?
• The questions were for the students as much
  surprising as the results were.

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January

• Activity correspondence about Actuality
• Participants Students from Pinellas
  Charlotte Students from Democratic,, Gvanim and
  Katzir

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February

• Activity Purim Jokes and costum competition .
• Participants students from Pinellas ,
  Katzir, Democratic and Gvanim school.

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March

• Activity Pesah Forun disscussion about the
  following issues
• 1gt When you think about the word freedom, what
  associations raise your mind?
• 2gt What is so special about the event exodus
  from Egypt?
• Participants Students from Pinellas, Charlotte
  Students from Democratic, Gvanim and Katzir
  school.

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April

• Activity Continuation of the Forum Actuality
• Participants Students from Pinellas ,
  Charlotte Students from Democratic, Gvanim and
  Katzir school.
• Questions examples
• () is it possible to run a normal life when
  people are being killed and more and more
  families are being distroyed ?
• () why jewish in israel have to suffer more than
  other jewish in the world, is it true that we
  suffer more?
• () can be a possible conection with the
  holocaust and what we are doing here?

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May

• Activities Forum contact with our Delegation of
  Students in Charleston with South-East
  participants
• Cooperative activity about "Yom Yerushalaim"
  through the web-site" and in the classes , both
  in Charleston and in Israel.
• In Charleston our delegation made an activity
  about "Yom Yerushalim" to the American children,
  and participated in the ceremony at the school.

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June

• Activity Packages exchange for Yom Atzmaut from
  Savanna , Draws and also from Beit-El temple
  Pinellas.

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Researching circles of the Jewish Identity
learning process
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Remarks

• All the activities and forum discussions , were
  translated into English in prupose of making a
  fully participation of the American Students and
  teachers.
• The Jewish-Identity project is long term program
  process ,which grows and build itself according
  to the natural procces of unlimited hours of
  work ,researching and learning of the dedicated
  group of leading-educators , students and parents
  which accompany us all the time.
• The importance of the project to both parts of
  the partnership is clearly shown in the statistic
  graph of 2400 visitors we had in the website of
  the project

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This present year project

• Our target is strengthen our relation with the
  American Jews by extending our work and the
  demands from ourselves and our students in three
  levels
• 1gt deepening the knowledge about our religion and
  values through an intensive study of the weekly
  Torah portion (see in the website of the project
  http//parasha.homestead.com)
• 2gt Expand our community work with the children
• helping needed people (oldest, Olim, etc)
• 3gt including youngest students to our circle
  (kindergarden to primary classes), bringing our
  adult students to guide and teach the youngest
  ones, as an intensive preparation for guiding in
  the summercamps delegation the coming july.

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• All the activities are already working and our
  students are intensivity involved.
• All our activities were built with the leading
  idea and technology to make fully cooperation
  between our students overseas.

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