Lag BaOmer
This is a project aimed at learning about Sefirat HaOmer and Lag BaOmer. The techniques used in the activities allow the participants to address the subject through their own experience – with games, discussions and artistic creations.
Lag BaOmer and the Metamorphosis after the Metamorphosis
At first glance Lag BaOmer might seem like a date that passes through the Hebrew calendar without making too much noise. However, upon closer inspection, we see how this day gradually acquired new and renewed meanings in the course of multiple transformations that manifest themselves in various ways. In this article, the author attempts to show some of the ways in which these changes gestated, and how Lag BaOmer finally managed to distinguish itself in the flow of dates that makes up our calendar. By Rabbi Joshua Kullock
Lag BaOmer Purim Carnival
Games specially for Lag BaOmer. They can be played outdoors, as a special activity.
Lag BaOmer together
(By The Melton Research Center for Jewish Education of the Jewish Theological Seminary) This is an interactive guide to the holiday. Includes both child and adult materials about Lag BaOmer, People Who Owned Torah: Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Joshua, Rabbi Yosi ben Kisma, An Anonymous Teacher of Torah Wrote, Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai, and Hillel.
Lag Baomer: Much More Than a Number
Through different recreational and participatory activities, the project initially covers the Jewish calendar between Pesach and Shavuot, focusing on analyzing the meaning of the Counting of the Omer and exploring the numerical value of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet (gematria). It takes a deeper look at the values that guided Jews in Akiva and Bar Kokhba’s generation and includes, by way of conclusion, an entertaining revision of the historical facts and Jewish leaders remembered on Lag BaOmer.
Land and Words - Songs and Shots. Israel and the Middle East in Light of the Oslo Accord
This project contains four activities whose common thread is to analyze the situation in the Middle East in general, and in Israel in particular, in the wake of the Oslo Accords. The analysis is based on different perspectives and uses various different resources: from examining the Accords themselves to looking at their influence on Israeli music.
Leaders - naturally born or self-made? (Yochanan ben Zakkai)
This activity is designed so that the participants can reflect on the possibility that ordinary people have to become leaders of an idea, process or change.Its purpose is to do research into the sources and the (non biblical) leaders to further explore this issue.This activity is part of a project that is focused on the issue of leadership from the point of view of the Jewish ethics and the current formulations of the social sciences.Jewish Programs suggests using it within the framework of the activities for Lag BaOmer, since the leaders that are discussed here actively participated in the heroic actions being commemorated on such date.
Leadership as a value in Jewish culture (children)
This program on leadership as a value in Jewish culture was conceived as a means of tackling and weaving together the concepts of leaders and leadership from both social and Jewish perspectives. The key concepts in the social sciences of today are fundamental in approaching different historical facts and events, whose peculiarities, resolution and development in many cases derived from the leaders who oversaw them.The program centers on examples from Jewish culture, both biblical and historiographical.
Leadership, a Jewish Cultural Value (Adults)
This project centers on an understanding of which value encapsulates the concept of leadership and its relationship to Jewish culture. As the project unfolds, we will attempt to offer a series of different aspects, enabling us to reflect and draw conclusions on the basic questions surrounding this concept.
Learning to Be Free
Activity directed at analyzing the awareness, effort, and specific actions or behaviors necessary for an individual or nation to achieve freedom.Participants read texts, answer questions, and engage in activities that emphasize self-expression.
Let us improve the world
Thematic activity based on the reading of a book. It includes an expressive activity and the sharing of assignments.
Let’s Eat! Good guys, bad guys, Jewish holidays and young children
Young children are bombarded with good guys vs. bad guys by the media every day. The Jewish holidays from winter to spring provide their own list of bad guys out to defeat the Jews. How do we help our youngest children understand that being Jewish is not ultimately about the fight for our survival, but about striving to constantly make the world a better place? A closer look at the story of Purim helps to address this question.by Maxine Segal Handelman
Let's play in Chanukah!!
In Chanukah we celebrate "the delivery of the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few, the impure into the hands of the pure..." (taken from the Siddur).
Lies and Hope
Activity related to the film “Jakob the Liar”. This material belongs to The Youth and Society Administration - Ministry of Education of the State of Israel, and has been translated into English by the American Joint Distribution Committee.
L'Shanah Tovah Tikatevu
This activity aims at exploring the story of Kartisei Brachah, from their origins until the present day.