Interactive | Lessons

A variety of lesson plans and activities available below. You can teach one lesson or teach a learning unit using our recommendations.

There are different lessons in Hebrew and in English, due to different material available (books, videos etc). The Hebrew lessons are available HERE

Introduction to The Soviet Jewry Struggle for Freedom

Before starting to teach about the Soviet Jewry Struggle, we recommend you give this short introduction:

1948 (Golda Meir's visit in Moscow)

when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...

Film screening & discussion – Operation Wedding documentary

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.

How to identify fake news of today from fake news of past Soviet media - Slideshow & Discussion

A lesson that encourages critical and independent thinking for students. In this lesson you can use a ready-made presentation that includes

Activity: Present & Protest: get inspired by creative and non-violent 70's protests

In the activity lesson plan, the students will imagine that they are activists in the free world, advocating for Soviet Jews.

Read & discuss: 13 year old against the KGB (short story)

For nearly two decades The Jewish Press publicized the cause of Marina Tiemkin of Moscow who had been kidnapped as a teenager by the KGB.

Calculated Discussion: Permission To Leave Paradise

With a rare combination of basic mathematics and history, we will explain the USSR’s line of thought regarding the exit of citizens.

Women of the Refuseniks- video & discussion

The role of the women who stood up in defense of Soviet Jews and those women denied the right to leave the USSR.

Power of Protest - the movement to free Soviet Jewry

This unit discusses what it means to protest—and more specifically, what it means to empathize with those in need.

Protesting in the time of Soviet Jewry

Within a unit on poetry and protest music, it came to light that my 9th grade English students were unfamiliar with the Free Soviet Jewry

Hanukkah story discussions comparing to Soviet Jewry

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"Refuseniks: Heroes of History" Slideshow -- Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement

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The secrets of Nativ

Watch & Discuss: The death of Stalin in Purim 1953, compared to Haman

What similarities can you draw between the Purim story from of the Book of Esther and Stalin’s Jews persecution, which ended with his death