Teaching Civil Rights to Jews

Many of us know that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked with Martin Luther King Jr. at the Selma Civil Rights March in 1965. But that’s just a tiny bit of the history of Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement. If you’re struggling to teach a civil rights lesson to your Hebrew or Sunday school class, you’re in luck!

The Jewish Women’s Archive recently launched Living the Legacy, a new online curriculum on Jews and the Civil Rights Movement, featuring stories of women and men fighting for social justice.

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