PART three:
Experiencing Jewishness in the home. . . . . . . . . 19Playtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Entering the Jewmosphere: Jewish atmosphere in the home . . . . 22Learning to feed your Jewish stomach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Oy vey! Fun with Jewish expressions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Common Hebrew and Yiddish expressions
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Important Jewish terms
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Shabbat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
PART four:
Experiencing the Jewish World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Hey, can I borrow a bagel? The Jewish community as a resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Hooray for bubbes: Learning from the elderly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42“Couldn’t you have chosen someone else?”Understanding Jewish suffering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Never Forget! The background of an American Jewish concern over anti-Semitism
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A brief history of modern Jewish persecution
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 You just MUST go once: Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
A brief history of the land of Israel
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Note on understanding the current political situation in Israel
. . . . . . . 57Defending the fatherless and the widow: Jewish ethics and social action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
PART five:
The Heart of Jewish Life: Celebrating the Holidays. . . 63 The value of celebration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63But I don’t know what I am doing!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Okay, where do I start? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Hanukkah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Passover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Purim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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