Exploring artefacts

External links

Mezuzah

• An introduction to the Jewish home

Video clips for teachers

• My Jewish Learning website
• Chabad website
  

For children

• A brief introduction to the mezuzah in 11-year-old Charlie’s house is provided near the start of this clip
• A simple song from within Jewish community, showing lots of different mezuzah designs

Further websites showing different designs of mezuzah (in addition to those mentioned in Ready Steady RE, above)

• Shalom house website and at World of Judaica website

Ketubah

Many different designs of ketubah can be found at the Shalom House website

Tzedakah box

• Many different designs of tzedakah box can be found at the World of Judaica website
• My Jewish Learning website: items seen in Jewish homes

eResources

• Sample ketubah

Recommended books:

• • Dr Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg
  • Joy Berry, Breaking Promises (Help Me Be Good)
  • Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
  • Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, The Smartest Giant in Town
  • Leo Lionni, It’s Mine!
  • Trudy Ludwig, The Invisible Boy

Members Only

• Opening Up RE: Judaism, Jewish artefacts

• Opening Up RE: Promises

• Photos of what you can find in a Jewish home

• Make a mezuzah box/tzedakah box

• A PDF of the full unit