The foundation of
everything we do in this class is KAVOD.
" יְהִי
כְבוֹד חֲבֵרְךָ חָבִיב עָלֶיךָ כְּשֶׁלָּךְ. "
"Make
the kaovd/ dignity of your peer be as dear to you as your own.
" (Avot 2:10). Show Kavod to each other, to the classroom
(teachers and materials) and the Torah we study.
Expectations- you are responsible for coming to class ready
to learn and do your best. This includes
the following:
i. Being rested and ready to contribute to class. Saturday night
is a school night.
ii. Eat breakfast on Sunday AM before you arrive. Snack is not
breakfast.
iii. Bringing your best effort. We are bringing our best effort, and you must do the same.
a.
Policies
i. Phones, earbuds, headphones and smart watches are not to be used in class.
ii. Early Dismissal- An adult must come and get you. You do not leave unescorted.
iii. Bring in a Snack policy: The four S's.
iv. Do not deny others the opportunity to learn, especially by engaging in poor behavior or efforts that your secular school teachers don’t tolerate in their class.
a.
What are two things in
Judaism you think that Conservative Jews do differently than Orthodox Jews?
b.
What are two practices
or ideas that makes Reform Judaism different from Conservative Judaism?
c.
Aside from Conservative,
Reform, and Orthodox, name two other movements, groups, or divisions in the
Jewish world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSs5EPXawYE
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TRUE OR FALSE (MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA)
1. Every movement in American Judaism
has its own siddurim- usually more than one.
2. The first synagogues built in America
were what would now be called Orthodox.
3. Orthodox Jews are no more likely to come
to synagogue on Shabbat just to pray than jews in other movements.
4. Not all Orthodox Jews have a Bat Mitzvah
celebration for their daughters.
5. Conservative Judaism was the first
to ordain women as rabbis, then Reform.
6. It’s actually Reformed Judaism. People
keep leaving off the “-ed.”
7. Conservative Judaism was about
Conserving our freedoms in comparison to Orthodoxy .
8. Orthodoxy is unified in how it forbids
religious leadership roles for
women.
9. World-wide, there are about
two dozen Yeshivot for Conservative adults to study Torah in, but
several hundred Orthodox Yeshivot.
10. Humanist
Judaism is a branch of Judaism where people do not believe in God but still
find meaning participating in Jewish rituals.
11. There is only one Conservative Movement, but many
flavors of Orthodoxy.
12. Conservative
and Reform Judaism both say you only need to observe the ritual mitzvot you
find meaningful.
13. Orthodoxy
was the first movement to ordain its own Rabbis in
America.
14. Conservative
Judaism was the first to fully support modern Zionism.
15. Reconstructionist
Judaism is an offshoot of Conservative Judaism.
16. Orthodox
Judaism is growing the fastest growing movement in the USA, but
Reform is the largest.
17. Reform
Jews are twice as likely as Conservative Jews to have a Jewish education of
some kind past Bnei Mitzvah.
18. In
Israel, the Reform and Conservative movements are teeny-tiny.
19. Reform
Jews are the least religious Jews in America.
20. Orthodox
Jews are only 5% to 10% more likely to be able to read and pray in Hebrew
compared to Reform and Conservative.
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