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

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

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

With a rare combination of basic mathematics and history, we will explain the *USSR’s line of thought regarding the exit of citizens

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

Introduction and background on life in the Soviet Union in the 1970s through the perspective of a young girl. How to stay true to ideals und

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

Paintings and illustrations of prisoners of Zion and those who refused to immigrate to the USSR communicate with artists in the free world w

#OnlineLessons #CivicStudies #Discussions #Videos #Music #MiddleSchool #HighSchool A personal word about the lesson Growing up on Jewish social activism, I remember, clearly, my youth group participation in the March for Soviet Jewry. I looked forward to sharing as much as I could about this issue with my students. As we started learning, I saw the girls were keenly interested and fully participating. Encouraged by this, I expanded the lesson to several c

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

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

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

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

an economic method in which everything belongs to everyone, that is, to the state is? Office of Visas is called?

#Activity #MiddleSchool The activity is suitable for students in grades 4-8, after studying at least one unit or two lessons on the struggle of Judaism in the USSR: In this activity, each student (or group of students) receives a card of an important event that has happened in history, and students must cooperate to understand what the correct order is and in the end stand in line in the correct order. Possibilities for tickets, taken from the timeline (choose according to

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A music lesson: sing in Hebrew (beginner), and discuss the lyrics meaning and source.

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

The lesson was (and will be) given via a slideshow with the strong expectation that none of the students know what a Refusenik is.

Former prisoner of Zion Yosef Begun, reflects on the holiday, past and present: in Soviet Prison, on his exile to Siberia years later, and f

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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?