Films & Videos

A variety of lesson plans and activities available below. You can teach one lesson or teach a learning unit using our recommendations.

There are different lessons in Hebrew and in English, due to different material available (books, videos etc). The Hebrew lessons are available HERE

How to identify fake news of today from fake news of past Soviet media - Slideshow & Discuss

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

Film screening & discussion – Operation Wedding documentary

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.

1948: The Need For A Jewish State

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

The growth of the communist regime in George Orwell's "Animal Farm"

The film tells about a group of animals on a farm in England that has a vision - to transform from an "enslaved people" into a "free people"

Women of the Refuseniks - video & discussion

The role of the women who stood up in defense of Soviet Jews and those women denied the right to leave the USSR.

Watch & Discuss: Freeing Russian Jewry, The Refuseniks

The video tells the story of Soviet “refuseniks,” Jews in the former Soviet Union who were denied access to emigrate to Israel.

Protesting in the time of Soviet Jewry

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Longing for Zion - songs, videos and discussions

The spiritual connection between world Jewry: how Soviet Jewry inspired Jews in the free world to make Aliyah. Talk about the role, influenc

The Refuseniks and Operation Wedding

We had a lively discussion about whether or not my students would have done the same, knowing they would be arrested?

The death of Stalin in Purim 1953, compared to Haman

What similarities can you draw between the Purim story from of the Book of Esther and Stalin’s Jews persecution, which ended with his death?

"Refuseniks: Heroes of History" Slideshow -- Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement

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