9th Grade Source Book

• Unit I- Approaches to Judaism
• An Introduction to Diversity and Pluralism
• Development of Judaism Before the Enlightenment
  • Reasons for the Commandments (Complete Article)
  • Jews Throughout History and Throughout the World
  • Timeline of Jewish Development Through the Enlightenment
    • Breakdown of World Jewry by Tradition
    • Map of Jewish Expulsions with dates
    • Radhanite (Medieval Jewish Merchant) Trade Routes
  • Jews Throughout History and Throughout the World Map
• Reform Judaism

  Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR)

  Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR)

  Progressive Association of Reform Day Schools (PARDeS)

  North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY)

  Kesher

  Camp Harlam

  Union For Reform Judaism (URJ)

  ARZA

• Orthodox Judaism
• http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/363_Transp/08_Orthodoxy.html
• http://www.vbm-torah.org/archive/ravindex.htm

  Rabbinical Council Of America (RCA)

  Yeshiva University (YU)

  Association of Modern orthodox Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools (AMODS)

  National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY)

  Orthodox Campus Coalition (OCC)

  Orthodox Union (OU)

  Institute for Public Affairs (IPA)

• Conservative Judaism    

  Rabbinical Assembly (RA)

  Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS)

  Solomon Schechter Day Schools (SSDS)

  United Synagogue Youth (USY)

  Koach

  Ramah

  United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)

  MERCAZ USA

  The Zeigler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism  (UJ) in Los Angeles

• Reconstructionist Judaism

  Reconstructionist Rabbinical Assembly (RRA)

  Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC)

  No'ar Hadash

  Camp JRF

  Jewish Reconstructionist Federation (JRF)

• Other Approaches
  • http://www.americansephardifederation.org/
  • Society for Humanistic Judaism
• Classical Texts and Their Relation to Modern Jewish Identity
  • Rambam's Thirteen Foundations
• Practical Judaism Part I: Studies Through the Movements
  • Who is a Jew?
    • Additional Conservative Resource
    • Additional Reform Articles
  • Shabbat
• Wrap- Up
• Unit II Practical Judaism Part II: A Pluralistic Approach
• Lashon Hara, Part 1 (Texts)
• Lashon Hara, Part 2 (Additional Sources)
• http://www.jewfaq.org/speech.htm
• http://members.aol.com/LazerA/lashonhara.html
• http://www.torah.org/learning/spiritual-excellence/classes/gor3-11.html
• http://torah.org/learning/halashon/
• Kashrut, Part 1 (The Development of Meat Eating)
• Kashrut, Part 2 (Kashrut)
  • Chart of the Development of Kashrut by Yosef Razin
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo_food
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Dhabi%C4%A5a_Halal_and_kashrut
• Kashrut, Part 3 (Tza'ar Ba'alei Chaim, Eco-Kashrut. and Social Kashrut)
  • Kosher Symbols
  • Temple Grandin on IMPROVING RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER PRACTICES IN THE U.S.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_ritual_slaughter
  • "Veal: The Other White Meat"
  • http://www.jewishveg.com/
  • http://www.shalomctr.org/node/663
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=QQ4ULXaa6PMC&pg=PA125&ots=FOAChvo2az&dq=david +ehrenfeld+bentley&sig=45DcDO4pZkjWA4bLUrKZ8tfStrM (page 125)
• Tzedakah
• Appendix I-II: Names and Sources
• Appendix III: An Index of Sources