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All-Inclusive Heritage Museum
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
This interactive lesson invites students to explore their family histories and cultural identities through treasured heirlooms and personal artifacts.
Around the Middle Eastern Jewish World
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
This interactive middle school lesson takes students on a virtual journey through Jewish communities in Morocco, Yemen, Syria, and Turkey, exploring their histories, cultural traditions, and personal stories to deepen understanding of Sephardic and Mizrah
Authors of Jewish History
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
Students research a Jewish community of the Middle East or North Africa using primary and secondary sources, then write and share a book that tells that community’s history.
Celebrating Middle Eastern Jewish Clothing
Elementary School (Grades K-5)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students explore how Jews of the Middle East and North Africa used clothing to fit in with their neighbors while keeping a distinct Jewish identity, then celebrate Mimouna in kaftans with sweets and Moroccan music.
Forgotten Refugees : Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
Students meet Jewish refugees from Libya, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco through their own testimonies, analyze why nearly a million Jews left Arab lands, and create collages that turn forgotten refugees into remembered ones.
Henna Party
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
Students discover the henna celebration, a joyful pre-wedding tradition of Moroccan, Yemenite, and other Middle Eastern Jewish communities, and explore its meanings of blessing, protection, and community.
Middle Eastern and North African Jewish Cuisine
Elementary School (Grades K-5)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students taste and trace the dishes of Jewish communities from Morocco to Iran and discover how geography, religious practice, and migration carried family recipes to Israel and the world.
Open Your Hand! Hamsa
Elementary School (Grades K-5)
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students explore the hamsa, the open hand symbol cherished by Jews and Muslims across the Middle East and North Africa, and discover how Jewish tradition connects the open hand to generosity.
Oral Histories
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students listen to the testimonies of Jews from Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Morocco, learn to read oral history the way historians do, and honor each speaker with an acrostic poem built on evidence.
Our Names Our Identity
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students uncover the stories behind their own names, explore Sephardic and Mizrahi naming traditions, and examine what happens to identity when immigrants keep, change, or lose their names.
Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish Music
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
High School (Grades 9-12)
Students listen to piyutim, the sung Hebrew poems of Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish communities, compare traditional and modern performances, and discover how this music became part of Israeli popular culture.
Sephardic Storyteller
Middle School (Grades 6-8)
Students hear Jewish folktales from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt and discover the values they pass down.