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- Grade 9-10 Jewish studies for 2012-13
- JST 8-1 Jewish history handouts
- Derech Eretz pledges for faculty and students
- Judd Levingston – interview with Clarke Groome of the Chestnut Hill Local
- Jewish sources on the environment
- Judd Levingston’s book talk on play
- Judd Levingston’s recent book on moral education
Church and State elective
- Abington v. Schempp – Bible reading and Lord's Prayer in schools 374 US 203
- Bill of Rights with commentaries
- Bill of Rights, First Amendment to U.S. Constitution
- Bill of Rights, Fourteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution
- Church and State – Everson case – syllabus, opinions
- Edwards v. Aguillard – Balanced Treatment Act 482 US 578 (1987)
- Everson case – School bus case 330 US 1 (1947)
- Goldman v. Weininger – Kippah in the Military 475 US 503 (1986)
- Lemon v. Kurtzman – support for Rhode Island faith-based school secular studies teachers 403 U.S. 602
- Lemon v. Kurtzman 403 U.S. 602 summary
- Lynch v. Donnelly – public Christmas displays 465 US 668 (1984)
- McCollum v. Board of Education 333 US 203 (1948) Full case (Cornell Univ. Law School format)
- McCollum v. Board of Education 333 US 203 (1948) Summary
- NPR Snyder v. Phelps story
Jewish Studies and Bible/Tanakh, Grade 7
- Bible in English (JPS recent edition), "tagged edition"
- Chanukah al ha-nisim music
- Hillel and Shammai Jewish Virtual Library
- JS7 Tefillah workshop Amidah
- JS7 Tefillah workshop overview of prayer
- JS7 Tefillah workshop root of the word "tefillah"
- JS7 Tefillah workshop Shema
- JS7 Tzedakah definition
- JS7 Tzedakah difference between charity and tzedakah
- Map of Canaan/Israel in Joshua's time
- Map of Israel in the time of the Judges
- Maps of Joshua's battle plans (may be amateur)
- Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 1:1
- Mishnah Rosh Hashanah 4:8-9 (Shofar rules)
- Mishnah Sanhedrin, Chapters 1-10
- Mishnah Taanit 1:1-1:2
- Mishnah Yoma 8:1 – Yom Kippur
- Passover – video version of each stage of the seder
- Passover kosher foods – huge list of items
- Passover Orthodox Union kosher foods list
- Passover seder article from Exponent 20 March 2008
- Passover unit – article comparing the seder to a Greek symposium
- Passover when it falls on Shabbat
- Rabban Gamaliel (Rabban Gamaliel II) Jewish Encyclopedia site
- Rabban Gamaliel (Rabban Gamaliel II) Wikipedia site
- Shulhan Arukh explanation from Jewish Virt. Libr.
- Tzedakah biblical sources – areyvut
- Tzedakah unit online source #1 about Prosbul
- Tzedakah unit online source #2 about Prosbul and rabbinic decrees
- Tzedakah unit online source #3 about Prosbul and Hillel
- Video Bible rap – Chanukah! – Matt Bar
- Walls of Jericho – scientific explanation podcast
- Yamim Noraim – Ashamnu/Vidui and commentary Rabbinics 7
- Yamim Noraim – Rosh Hashanah foods BabaGanews article
- Yamim Noraim – Shofar videos from BabagaNewz
Jewish Studies and Bible/Tanakh, Grade 8
- Around the world comparison of dietary laws
- Comparative religious diets
- Eco-Kashrut – Certification symbols to go on packaging
- Eco-Kashrut – Koah (College student's perspective)
- Eco-Kashrut – My Jewish Learning (background)
- Eco-Kashrut – Religious perspectives
- Eco-Kashrut – Social action perspectives
- Kashrut – Different religions around the world
- Mishnah Eduyot, Chapters 1-8
- Sanhedrin – My Jewish Learning
- Sanhedrin – Wikipedia
Mishnah Greatest Hits
- Mishnah Avodah Zara, Chapters 1-5
- Mishnah Bava Kama 8:6
- Mishnah Bava Kama 8:6 – Embarrassing others
- Mishnah Bava Metzia, Chapters 1-9
- Mishnah Gittin 5:3-4
- Mishnah Gittin 5:8
- Mishnah in Hebrew
- Mishnah Jewish Virtual Library
- Mishnah Moed Katan 3:5-6
- Mishnah Moed Katan 3:7-8
- Mishnah Moed Katan 3:9
- Mishnah My Jewish Learning
- Mishnah Qidushin 1:7
- Mishnah Sanhedrin, Chapters 1-10
- Mishnah Shabbat 6:10, 7:1
- Mishnah Shabbat 7:2, 7:3
- Mishnah Sotah 8:1-2
- Mishnah Sotah 8:3-4
- Mishnah Sotah 8:5-6
- Mishnah Sotah 8:7
- Mishnah Sotah 9:15
- Mishnah University of Calgary Professor Segal site
- Mishnah Yoma 7:5, 8:1
- Mishnah Yoma 8:1 – Yom Kippur
- Mishnah Yoma 8:2-8:3
- Mishnah Yoma 8:8-9
- Mishnah: Jewish Encyclopedia
- Rabbinic Facebook Hillel the Elder website
- Rabbinic Facebook Rabban Gamliel II Jewish Encyclopedia website
- Rabbinic Facebook Rabban Gamliel II website
- Rabbinic Facebook Rabbi Akiba Jewish Virtual Library website
- Rabbinic Facebook Rabbi Akiba website
- Rabbinic Facebook Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi website
- Rabbinic Facebook Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi Wikipedia website
- Rabbinic Facebook Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai website
Philosophy Club
- Epicurius
- Michael Sandel introductory video: thinking about justice
- Most Jewish – Online game from the Reconstructionist Movement
- Philosophy Club – Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
- Philosophy Prof. Ronald Schindler, Course website, Arcadia Univ., Summer 2010
- Plato and the cave – as told in clay
- Plato and the cave – Matrix version
Publications and talks by Judd Levingston
- "Taking the Siddur Live," Union of Reform Judaism newsletter, "Torah at the Center." See Vol 12, No. 2, p. 11.
- "The Moral Mishnah" – Using Mishnah in Moral Development – Working Paper #21
- Brandeis Conference on Teaching Rabbinics – Moral Education and the Mishnah – Session A2 27 January 2008
- Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
- Judd Levingston's new book, Sowing the Seeds of Character, available through the publisher – Praeger Publishers
- Judd Levingston's new book, Sowing the Seeds of Character, available through www.amazon.com
- Teaching Rabbinics – Conference at Brandeis University, January 27, 2008, Session A2, talk about using Mishnah in moral education
- Techno-Tefillah – grant-related blog about using technology to enhance the experience of prayer
Reference Maps, Dictionaries, Things You Need
- Bible – Hebrew English Tanakh
- Bible Gateway – Multiple international translations
- Bible in English (JPS recent edition), "tagged edition"
- Bloom's Taxonomy good summary
- Chanukah al ha-nisim music
- G-d Cast!
- Gann Academy "Gannopedia" links to Jewish sources
- Gannopedia interactive rabbinic literature chart
- Gannopedia! Resources on rabbinic literature from Gann Academy, Boston
- Haggadah – CCAR Open Door Haggadah
- Haggadah – Uncle Eli’s Haggadah (especially fun for kids)
- Haggadah – United Jewish Communities
- Haggadah unit – “Ritualwell.org” – new rituals
- Jastrow Dictionary on-line
- Jewish Futures video – Russell Neiss and Charlie Schwartz
- Jewish Futures video by Michael Sabani – 2010
- Jewish History – PBS: Heritage: Civ and the Jews
- Jewish Virtual Library Search
- Maimonides Mishneh Torah Laws of Prayer, Ch. 1
- Maimonides: biography from PBS Channel 13
- Maimonides: Jewish Virtual Library
- Map – Middle Eastern groundwater
- Map – Middle Eastern rainfall
- Map of Ancient Israel
- Map of ancient Middle East (modern map/ancient boundaries)
- Map of Israel in the time of the Judges
- Map of modern Middle East (modern map/modern boundaries)
- Maps from the Jewish Virtual Library (including Israel, Middle East, Middle Ages, WW2, other topics)
- Maps of Israel – Current and Historical, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Mishnah in Hebrew
- Morfix Hebrew English dictionary
- Most Jewish – Online game from the Reconstructionist Movement
- Nechama Leibowitz – her complete Torah commentary in English
- Omer Counter – "Counting the Homer [Simpson]"
- Philadelphia Federation Population Study
- Pirke Avot Chapter 1, sponsored by Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
- Pirke Avot Chapter 2, sponsored by Chabad
- PIrke Avot Chapter 3, sponsored by Chabad
- Pirke Avot Chapter 4, sponsored by Chabad
- Pirke Avot Chapter 5, sponsored by Chabad
- Pirke Avot Chapter 6, sponsored by Chabad
- Rashi script – compare block print with Rashi script
- Sanhedrin – Jewish Virtual Library
- Shulhan Arukh explanation from Jewish Virt. Libr.
- Simpsons go-to-Israel episode – April 2010
- Texts – Tanakh, Mishnah, Gemara in neat Hebrew
- The Brotherhood – Bridge to Terabithia – bus scene
- The Brotherhood – Fairly Oddparents – note bus scene
- Tzedakah biblical sources – areyvut
- UPenn Museum Canaan Home Page
- Video Bible rap – Chanukah! – Matt Bar
- Yamim Noraim – Ashkenazic Rosh Hashanah customs
- Yamim Noraim – Interesting and not well known traditions
- Yamim Noraim – Sephardic Rosh Hashanah customs
- Yamim Noraim – Sephardic Rosh Hashanah customs
- Yamim Noraim – symbolic foods – Orthodox Union article
- Yamim Noraim – symbolic foods – straightforward article
- Yamim Noraim – symbolic foods from holidays.net
- Yamim Noraim – symbolic foods with text citations
- Yamim Noraim – Yom Kippur Confession – J Virt Libr – Rabbinics 7
- Yamim Noraim – Yom Kippur Sephardic customs – Rabbinics 7
- Yamim Noraim Al Chet text – Rabbinics 7
- Yamim Noraim JTS Esslingen Mahzor
Summer 2009 - Gratz College
- AIPAC
- American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
- Balfour Declaration
- Bloom's Taxonomy and other pedagogical tools from UTexas
- Boy and his whistle story
- Brandeis Conference on Teaching Rabbinics – Moral Education and the Mishnah – Session A2 27 January 2008
- Maimonides Mishneh Torah Laws of Prayer, Ch. 1
- Media accuracy in the Middle East
- My Jewish Learning
- Pirke Avot Chapter 1, sponsored by Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
- Pirke Avot illustrated version
- Pirke Avot with commentary/Jewish Virtual Library
- Spirituality vs. Religion and making kids happy
Tanakh 9
JST 8-1 Jewish history handouts
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Jewish sources on the environment
Jewish sources on the environment from contemporary life:
COEJL:
http://www.coejl.org/index.php
What’s Jewish about the environment?
http://www.coejl.org/jewviro.php
Clean Air Act – a page of Talmud
http://www.coejl.org/learn/index.php
A Jewish Response to the Environmental Crisis:
http://www.coejl.org/learn/je_jrec.pdf
National Religious Partnership on the Environment:
http://www.nrpe.org/statements/jewish_education01.htm
Environmental action:
http://www.nrpe.org/profiles/profiles_vi_A_6.htm
Teva Learning Center – Camp Isabella Friedman
http://tevalearningcenter.org/
http://tevalearningcenter.org/philosophy.php
Non-sectarian activism – Clean Air Council:
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Judd Levingston’s recent book on moral education
I am the author of a book about moral education entitled, Sowing the Seeds of Character: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools (Praeger, 2009). Here is a link to the Praeger website if you would like to order the book:
http://www.praeger.com/catalog/C35191.aspx
Here is a link to the Amazon website if you prefer to order it from Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=judd+levingston&x=19&y=15
(or just go to “www.amazon.com” and search for “judd levingston.”
Thank you for your interest in my writing!
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