when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in Rosh Hashana 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...

there was a real danger in celebrating Jewish holidays - many were arrested without actual crime, and sent to the Gulag under the false accu

A lesson that encourages critical and independent thinking for students. In this lesson you can use a ready-made presentation that includes

The following can be used as a lesson or an activity. The lesson covers some creative protests for Soviet Jewry, that received media attenti

This unit discusses what it means to protest—and more specifically, what it means to empathize with those in need, and how empathizing can l

As we started learning, I saw the girls were keenly interested and fully participating. Encouraged by this, I expanded the lesson to several class-periods, focusing on different aspects of the Soviet Jewish experience. This, almost organically, turned into a mini-unit and, as much as I loved teaching it, my students loved learning it.