S_WH7-18+Assignment

Grade 8 Lesson 18 - Comparative Judaism. (All Assignments)
 * History
 * Holidays - for each of the holidays listed below, provide short descriptions ((1 sentence - 200 characters max) of its purpose from both a secular and a religious point of view
 * Culture
 * Heroes/Heroines
 * Sherwin Wine
 * Max Rosenfeld
 * Modecai Kaplan
 * [|Menachem_Mendel_Schneerson]
 * 8th Grade Curriculum - the major groups of Jewish belief are secular humanist, Reconstructionist, Reform, Conservative and Modern Orthodox. For each of the groups answer the following questions:
 * What is their belief about God, about heaven and hell?
 * __//**Secular: Does not believe in god (no scientific evidence). Does not believe in heaven or hell because of lack of proof.**//__
 * __//**Reconstructionist: Believes that god is nature; and Unsure about heaven and Hell.**//__
 * __//**Reform: Yes, believes in god and most believe in heaven and hell**//__
 * __//**Conservative: Yes, believes in God and heaven and hell.**//__
 * __//**Modern Orthodox: Yes, believes in God and that God has created everything and we must obey all of his laws all of the time. Yes, they believe in heaven and hell.**//__
 * What is their belief about the origins of Torah, the primacy of Torah law and how Torah is to be interpreted?
 * __//**Secular: Torah is interpreted as stories and morals. Jewish leaders wrote the Torah.**//__
 * __//**Reconstructionist: Origins of the Torah are unknown. Torah is a Moral Guide**//__
 * __//**Reform: Believe that God handed the Torah to Abraham/Moses: Moral guide**//__
 * __//**Conservative**//____//**: Believe that God handed the Torah to Abraham/Moses**//____//**: Torah shape the decisions we make every day.**//__
 * __//**Modern Orthodox:**//__ __//**Believe that God handed the Torah to Abraham/Moses; and that the Torah rules all aspects of life.**//__
 * What is the role of the rabbi?
 *  __//**Secular: Teacher (no higher social status....like Barry in folkshul!)**//__
 * __//**Reconstructionist: Adviser (almost the same as secular).**//__
 * __//**Reform:**//__ __//**Upholds Jewish laws and traditions**//__
 * __//**Conservative: Highest respect and must go to a special college; keeps laws.**//__
 * __//**Modern Orthodox: Must do more schooling than the conservative rabbis also Orthodox Rabbis must be appointed by the chief Rebbe. Followers very personally devoted to their rabbi.**//__
 * Are there other ways that they are different?
 * __//**Secular: Does not believe in god; no religious schooling, women equal**//__
 * __//**Reconstructionist: Mostly use English in temple, women equal**//__
 * __//**Reform: Hebrew/English in temple, Mixed seating in Temple.**//__
 * __//**Conservative: Maintain sabbath, mostly hebrew in temple, sometimes mixed and sometimes separate seating (women-men) in temple.**//__
 * __//**Modern Orthodox: Maintain Sabbath, no mixed seating, separate schools, women separated from men in Temple.**//__
 *  More Differences
 * __//**Secular: Accepts other faiths, supports peace in Israel**//__
 * __//**Reconstructionist: accepts other faiths, supports Israel**//__
 * __//**Reform: Sometimes tolerates other faiths, supports Israel no matter what.**//__
 * __//**Conservative: supports Israel no matter what, do not tolerate other faiths.**//__
 * __//**Modern Orthodox: Most want a very strong Israel, do not tolerate other faiths, dont tolerate reform or secular Judaism**//__
 * __//**How are they the same? **//__
 * __//**1.They all believe that the child of a Jewish mother is Jewish. **//__
 * __//**2. Because anti-Semites see all Jewish traditions as the same, we have shared a common fate of suffering and death during anti-Jewish major massacres such as the Holocaust. **//__
 * Rabbi Sherwin Wine spoke at a conference at Harvard Unuversity. His talk can be found at You Tube where it is in 5 parts. Please listen to all the parts which are located at:
 * [|Myrna Baron's Introduction]
 * [|Rabbi Wine's Presentation -- Part One]
 * [|Rabbi Wine's Presentation -- Part Two]
 * [|Rabbi Wine's Presentation -- Part Three]
 * [|Rabbi Wine's Presentation -- Part Four]
 * [|Rabbi Wine's Presentation -- Part Five]
 * Please list up to 10 major points of his presentation. Do you agree or disagree with him?
 * 1) __//**Instead of preying to god- Wine believes in laughter. Agree**//__
 * 2) __//**If God really loved us why would he let the holocaust happen; is he stupid or incompetent? Strongly agree! So much evidence against god being real than there is for him and this is one piece.**//__
 * 3) __//**Judaism is one big family. Fact....agree**//__
 * 4) __//**Stories of the Torah are fake and science has changed the world. Agree**//__
 * 5) __//**Most people act secular, but say they are religious. Strongly agree- almost all of my friends that are Christian have not gone to church for five to six months, yet say they are not Secular.**//__
 * 6) __//**Right to happiness means to have happiness in this world. Not other worldly happiness. Agree**//__
 * 7) __//**Judaism is a culture with its own food, music, Dance, life style, memories, etc. Agree**//__
 * 8) __//**Don't trust authority because government leaders have too often oppressed the Jews. Agree**//__
 * 9) __//**Secular Jews are committed to the truth. Not what some religious person tells us. Agree**//__
 * 10) __//**We determine our own future, not god, but the people. Strongly agree- because how is it possible for some supernatural power to decide for us; we are alone!**//__
 * FAQs - for each of the questions below, provide a short answer (1 sentence - 200 characters max) and a longer one (1 paragraph - 800 characters max)
 * Vocabulary - for each of the words below, provide a short definition (1 sentence - 200 characters max) and a longer definition (1 paragraph - 800 characters max)