Looking for resources to build your Jewish service learning curriculum?
Need to update a curriculum that's outdated?
The field of Jewish service learning is continuing to grow and so are the online resources!
Check out the following Web sites for help with curriculum:
On1Foot by American Jewish World Service (AJWS):
On1Foot is an open-source online database of Jewish texts on social justice. Use this source to:
- Find texts in specific areas of social justice
- Upload texts, comments and discussion questions
- Build source sheets
Just! by PANIM:
Just provides textual resources, discussion questions, and planning exercises related to social action and community service.
Religious Action Center (the RAC) of Reform Judaism:
The RAC educates and mobilizes the American Jewish community on legislative and social concerns, advocating on issues from economic justice to civil rights to religious liberty to Israel.
National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC):
The NYLC is a secular resource library that has sample programs and other secular service learning educational resources, which can be easily altered with a Jewish service learning twist.
Jewish Women's Archive:
JWA.org offers an online Encyclopedia of Jewish women, lesson plans and other educational materials that can be downloaded for free, online exhibits on topics as diverse as "Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution" and "Katrina's Jewish Voices," several book and film guides, and many more resources for building curriculum.
Repair the World (formerly the Jewish Coalition for Service):
Repair the World, a new service organization, has taken over the 501(c)3 status of the Jewish Coalition for Service and is continuing to offer relevant textual resources for Jewish service learning curriculum.
Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearing House(NSLC):
NSLC is a secular resource that supports the service-learning community in kindergarten through grade twelve, higher education, community-based initiatives and tribal programs, as well as all others interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning techniques and methodologies.