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Jewish Path: Notes on Counting the Omer

For Students 9th - 10th
Many questions and answers about the Omer. Describes such things as when Jews should begin counting the Omer and what to do if the counting is skipped one night.
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Jewish Liturgical Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Liturgical music that is used by Jews in their religious services are discussed and defined. Also historical backgrounds are given.
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Utrecht Univ.: Fa Qs Observance, Marriage, Women in Judaism

For Students 9th - 10th
A Usenet collection of questions and answers related to Jewish culture, religious practices and beliefs, and family life. For example, it explores the meaning of kosher and explains how Jews around the world keep kosher.
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Amistad Digital Resource: Racial Violence and Terror

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the Ku Klux Klan perpetuated hate and violence against African Americans, communists, Catholics, Jews, and others that threatened their notion of white supremacy between 1880 and 1951.
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Mother Jones: The Dissident: An Interview With Natan Sharansky

For Students 9th - 10th
Known for his advancement of democracy and human rights, Natan Sharansky, a Ukranian-born Jew and later Prime Minister of Israel, speaks here regarding Arab dissidents, Israel's human rights record, and the prospects for a democratic...
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Hofstra University

Hofstra Univ: Why Was Bubonic Plague So Devastating to European Society? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The Bubonic Plague or "Black Death" came out of the eastern Mediterranean along shipping routes, reaching Italy in the spring of 1348. By the time the epidemic was abating in 1351, between 25% and 50% of Europe's population had died. The...
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Judaism 101

Judaism 101: The Counting of the Omer

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides historical background. Also explains why it is that Jews count the Omer. Provides the dates of Lag B'Omer.
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The Purim Section

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides links to a variety of topics involving Purim. Includes the "mitzvot of Purim" and a description of why Jews wear masks on the holiday.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Holocaust Denmark: Resistance From Nazi Germany

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Denmark and their resistance to deporting Jews to Nazi, Germany. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Escape From Kiev

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An elementary school student named Nicole interviews her grandfather about his experiences as a Jew when the Nazis invaded his home in the Soviet Union. A question sheet is available to help students...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Jewish State

For Students 9th - 10th
An online translation of "The Jewish State" by Theodore Herzl. Published in 1896, Herzl makes the case to Europeans, the Ottoman peoples of the Middle East, and fellow Jews for the formation of a Jewish State.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Jewish Emigration From Germany 1933 1939 Map

For Students 9th - 10th
This map shows the places to which Jews emigrated between 1933 and 1939, and the numbers of emigrants to each place. Thousands were able to escape Germany, but millions more were not able to.
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Hebrew for Christians: Ten Commandments

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ten Commandments were presented to Moses in the book of Exodus. Christians and Jews incorporate these into their faith, but with slight variations. This article sorts through the differences and beliefs.
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Common Lit: "Adolf Hitler" by Jessica Mc Birney

For Students 7th - 8th
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a German politician who was a leader of the Nazi Party and later became a dictator in Germany. Hitler's leadership in Germany resulted in World War II and the deaths of countless soldiers and citizens,...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Courage in Denmark: Resistance to the Nazis in Wwii by Us Holocaust

For Students 7th - 8th
World War II (WWII), a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 involved more than 100 million people and over 30 countries. The Allied powers - including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union - worked together...
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Common Lit: Text Sets: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 26 Grade-Leveled texts (6-11) on the topic The Holocaust. The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in history, in which Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany killed over six million Jews and five million others deemed...
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Letters From the Front: Jewish War Heroes

For Students 9th - 10th
The experience of Jews that served in the Red Army during World War II through letters, diaries, photographs and music.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Silver Shekel 2nd Jewish Revolt, Struck Over a Denarius of Hadrian

For Students 9th - 10th
This silver coin shows how, in an act of defiance against Roman rule, the Jewish population in the province of Judaea over-struck portraits of the Emperor Hadrian with their own symbols. Jerusalem had been destroyed by Roman forces in 70...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Reemergence of the Kkk

For Students 9th - 10th
Disbanded after Reconstruction, the KKK returned to national prominence in the 1920s to direct its hatred against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Qashqa'i

For Students 9th - 10th
The Qashqa'i are tribally organized, Turkic-speaking, nomadic pastoralists and agriculturists who live in southwestern Iran. They are Shia Muslims, unlike most of Iran's other minorities, who are either Sunni Muslims, Christians, Jews,...
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The History Place

The History Place: Statistics of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from The History Place has a chart with the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Nearly 6 million Jewish people were murdered. This site is disturbing its apparent accuracy of the Jewish slaughter.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Drancy Concentration Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what the Drancy concentration/death camp in France was like during WWII.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The November 1938 Pogroms

For Students 9th - 10th
From the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, this resource describes the anti-semitic pogroms, or race riots, in Germany on Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) in November of 1938.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Rothschild Family

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides detailed information on the Rothschild family, a legendary banking and finance dynasty.

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