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Mihael Malyshev (St. Petersburg)
Institutions of the Ohr-Torah educational network sites and
the site of the Pedagogical Center at Jewish Agency for Israel
As I promised, today we are going to survey links from the
site considered in the last excursion.
Interesting are the links to the Institutions of the Ohr-Torah educational network.
site of Midrashet Lindenbaum. This educational institution for girls advertises itself and offers its programs and terms of enrolling.
site of another school for girls, which is located 15 km from the town of Beit-Lekhem. The site is in English and Hebrew, most of information is in Hebrew: many pages, for example, dedicated to the concrete projects and programs of school, are only in Hebrew, therefore I can not say anything about their contents. There are very many links. We shall browse along them next time.
The site of a school for young men. All pages are in Hebrew.
The site of the Yeshiva Hamivtar Orot Lev. This site is of a completely different type - it contains not information on the school itself, but materials on Judaism. The materials are regularly updated. Now available: an article dedicated to Omer; an article about the problem of sanctity; an article on prayer considered through the prism of the Pirkey Avot ; an article about the Holocaust. There is a section called «Chumash and Rashi with r. Chaim Brovender», where it is possible to find commentaries to any of the week portions of the Torah. Judging by the level of rendering the material, the site is designed for beginners. The only 'unpleasant' thing: the link to «Jewish excursion to the Ukraine» looked very much attractive; alas, it turned out to be not really interesting, for it only contains information on the availability of 5 free places in the group departing on May 30 from Jerusalem to the Ukraine.
All the materials are written in English. I advise to look it through, in my opinion, the site is rather interesting.
And in the end of this rather boring excursion we shall have a look at the site
It is the site of the Pedagogical Center at Jewish Agency for Israel. On
one can find the Russian version of this site. There are following sections there:
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"time axis"
The section is dedicated the 100-th anniversary of the Zionist movement. Events of the history of this movement decade by decade can be seen here;
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"the concepts"
it is possible to select such concepts as the Aliah, the British Mandate, struggle and defense, Zionist congresses, relationship between Israel and the Diaspora, hityashvut (settlements). Every time it is a small encyclopedia-type text, approximately 2-3 pages, is dedicated to each problem. To my mind it would be useful for history teachers.
Many other things are also declared ("people”, “events ","places ","Arab-Israeli conflict in maps", "methodical works and kinds of activity”), but - «it is impossible to load the page». Maybe you will be able to succeed where I failed.
The link “Developed by the Pedagogical Center” refers to the main, English-language menu
What here is interesting for teachers?
Maybe, the page "Jerusalem"
It contains much information about the history of this city plus different techniques of teaching this material. The excursions around Jerusalem on behalf of the different figures of the Jewish history (from Iochanan ben Zakai up to Ben Gurion) are alternated by impregnations from the Jewish classical texts, prayers, etc. Various methods of teaching this material, test questions on the topics, subjects for discussion, etc. are offered here. I would recommend to teachers of tradition to look it through, for the basic thrust is made not on history as it is, but on its understanding within the framework of the Jewish tradition (for example, in the excursion around Jerusalem of the epoch of Iochanan ben Zakai the topic “What does it mean to be Jewish” is discussed). Look, whether these techniques are applicable at our schools.
There is also a page «Pedagogical Center» with quite a lot of links – for some reason none of them opens. I don't know what the matter is. The same can be said of the remaining pages. Maybe you will be lucky enough to open them, but I just wasted the on-line time. But I still do recommend the page "Jerusalem". To my opinion, it is interesting. Maybe they will complete the remaining pages and we will be able to visit them. I am going to write about it in their guest book (if it opens).
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