Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on May 26, 2017

On the last day of the school year for Solon Chabads Hebrew school, students started setting up exhibit tables to show off the work the students put into creating eight replicas of synagogues from around the world.

Rabbi Zushe Greenberg said the replica project was another installment of a yearly hands-on project series that the schools older division does at the end of each school year. Last years project focused on what Jewish heroes and a wax museum, where students dressed as a Jewish hero and presented research on the person.

Students learned about Jewish communities all around the world and Greenberg said their studies led them to create the replicas. The project was inspired by the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, which produced something similar.

The students were really excited about it and worked in groups of five to seven students, he said. (Each group) voted on a country and then, using their phones, looked for a synagogue that was over 100 years old and still in use.

It was awesome to see which synagogues were chosen, such as the Altneushul in Prague, which is the oldest synagogue in Europe. The oldest synagogue in the U.S. was chosen as well, which is the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island.

Greenberg said the project took the students about one month to complete. Then, on May 21, the students presented their work to 200 participants and the families in attendance voted on their favorite one. The Altneushul Synagogue won first place.

Our goal was to instill in our children that there are Jews all over the world and wherever they travel, they should seek out the Jewish community and visit, he said. This gives them the feeling of being part of a larger, global Jewish community.

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Synagogue replicas a highlight for students at Solon Chabad - Cleveland Jewish News

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