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NLI Teaching Resources

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Chevruta - The Alef Bet of Jewish Education

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Personal map - Reflecting on your journey

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Guessing game

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Time Capsule Teaching Kits

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The Time Capsules introduced you to the stories of influential Jewish figures through primary sources and activities, highlighting the values that guided their lives and demonstrating how these values can inspire students to apply them in their own lives.

Writing My Chapter - Bar Bat Mitzvah Journey

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The NLI Bar/Bat Mitzvah Journey includes 12 chapters that touch upon various elements of Jewish identity and culture through selected treasures from our archives and collections. In chapter 13 the learners will have an opportunity to share a primary source of their own – an authentic presentation of their personal experience, thus adding their link in the chain of history.

Chevruta with Israeli Teachers

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You had the opportunity to learn with and from Israeli educators, engaging in meaningful discussions about the similarities and differences in teaching across educational systems and cultural contexts. Together, you reflected on how these perspectives can enrich your own educational practice.

NLI Main Website

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NLI Map Collection

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BINA AI search

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The Librarians - NLI blog

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Historical Jewish Press

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European Days of Jewish Culture - NLI exhibits

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From Parchment to Pixels

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Explore how the layout of the Talmud page evolved, reflecting the changing needs and perspectives of Jewish society. In addition to how these changes influenced the ways teachers teach, and students engaged with and interpreted the text.

Exploring NLI’s Online Resources

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Introduction to the multiple tools available to search through all of the NLI’s collections and primary sources.

Tishrei Activity Pages and Riddles

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Using holiday-themed activity pages and riddles, you experienced firsthand the skills that learners strengthen through working with primary sources. We discussed strategies for adapting these activities and skills to different learner levels and discussed ways to increase their complexity to provide appropriate challenge and deepen learners' analytical thinking.

LEARNING NLI PEDAGOGY

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GETTING TO KNOW THE LIBRARY

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GATHERING AT THE WELL

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The Collective

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Is there a treasured object or document in your family that carries your Jewish story? Share it with the National Library of Israel and ensure your story lives on for future generations.

IMPLEMENTING NLI RESOURCES

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Many Voices of Jewish Tradition - Musical Workshop with Yahala Lachmish

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Pardes

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You explored original primary sources from your own communities and analyzed them using the traditional PaRDeS framework, adapted for primary source analysis. Through this process, you experienced firsthand how a structured approach to inquiry can help learners connect historical sources to their own Jewish identity and their place within the broader Jewish story.

More than Maps

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You examined historical maps as primary sources, analyzing how they reflect the history, culture, values, and perspectives of the time in which they were created. You then created personal maps that told your story as an educator and explored how mapping can be used as a reflective tool to help learners envision a hopeful future or make meaning of journeys they have already experienced.

People of the Book

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Tishrei Riddles

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After practicing the foundational skills needed to analyze primary sources, you applied those skills to solving Tishrei riddles that required higher-order thinking. By combining multiple analytical skills at once, you experienced how increasingly complex tasks can deepen learners' critical thinking and interpretation of primary sources.

NLI Interactive Map

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