The
culmination of the first semester of JETS'
Contemporary Jewish Issues course at Yeshivat Kadimah in St. Louis
centered on the students' projects in
which each student was assigned to explore, research
and present a subject or an issue that concerns today's Jewish community. In
this presentation, the students were requested to relate the issue to concerns
of Jews who lived during the 1st - 3rd centuries C.E.
The
students selected a wide variety of subjects ranging from wars and heroines to
Israel as a high-tech nation, and even Jewish hats.
Following
each student's presentation of his or her topic, the subjects that the students
had chosen were further examined with follow-up activities. Students were asked to review their peers' projects and make comments, add
information and otherwise expand on each theme.
In
this phase of the learning, the students became teachers, which is a very
powerful learning experience. Seeing is believing – view some of the
presentations for yourselves:
Heroines
Syria-Israel
Why
the Weak Win Wars
Jewish
Hats
Hi
Tech Nation
Warfare
Then and Now
Kosher
Foods
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