HISTORY PROJECTS: OLDER KIDS

*** CHOOSE ONE MOMENT IN JEWISH HISTORY AND TEACH YOUR CLASS ABOUT IT

*** WRITE A SONG, POEM OR RAP ABOUT ALL THE ATTEMPTS TO WIPE OUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HISTORY. 

Click on the MOMENT IN HISTORY to learn about it

King Herod, The Great

Jesus

Babylonian Exile 587 BCE

Maccabees Revolt against Antiochus IV (167-142 BCE)

The Great Revolt

Destruction of the Second Temple 70 C.E. 

Masada 73 C.E.

The Bar Kochba Revolt

The Babylonian Talmud - 5th century CE

The Crusades

The Spanish Inquisition

Reform Judaism

*The Reform movement, at the opposite declared in 1983 that if a child is born of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother, as long as the home is Jewish, the child is to be considered Jewish.

The Balfour Declaration

The Holocaust

Dead Sea Scrolls 1947

Israeli Statehood 1948

Adolph Eichmann Trial

1967 War

Yom Kippur War 1973

1978 Camp David Accord

Oslo Accords

The First Intifada 1978-91

The Second Intifada 

Withdrawal from Gaza Strip

The Assassination of Yitzchak Rabin