Stuarts post was cross posted to Welcome to the Next Level at [
nextleveljewisheducation.blogspot.com]. Here is a comment posted there...
transplantednorth said...
I have taught hebrew school on and off since 2001. I have participated in my city's Partnership 2000 program and have hosted teachers from Modi'in and have visited Modi'in. When it comes to teaching Israel, lots of kids have no tools of previous knowledge about Israel's history, or Israel's current contemporary culture. So when they see Israel through the narrow lens of conflict on CNN, they question "how can Israel be so mean to a people who have no land?"
I have taught the Etgar Zionism unit to seventh graders, explaining and debugging the misnomer that Zionism = racism. Kids came away from that lesson unit with an understanding of the Jews' special need for a homeland, and the risks early zionists took (Shochat, A.D. Gordon, Herzl) to fulfill the dream for future Jewish generations.
I have written about Israel advocacy on my blog,my post on this was called a Blessing and a Curse: Israel Advocacy through social networking which I will attach here.
December 16, 2010 4:03 PM
