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What would you do if one of your former campers or counselors were taken captive? How could your camp community take action on behalf of the hostages?
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Counting Up
What can we learn from Jewish tradition about the act of counting? How might counting help us keep the awareness of the plight of the captives in our hearts and in the minds of others?
Symbols of Friendship
How can an element of pop-culture help bring awareness to the hostages that were abducted from the music festival and from other locations in Israel on October 7, 2023? Can we harness the power of a bracelet, a symbolic representation worn on our wrist, to spread the message of hope to those around us?
Meet the Hostages’ Parents
Using moving and powerful clips from two episodes of Israel Story’s Wartime Diaries podcast series, we will meet the parents of two hostages—Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Alon Ohel, both of whom were abducted from the Nova music festival on October 7—and hear about the different ways in which they take action toward the release of their sons.
The Yamim Project
This year, in anticipation of the “Yamim” in a post October 7th world, the M² team commissioned designer Eli Kaplan Wildmann to create evocative artwork which can be used as a facilitation tool to engage learners in the experiences and feelings they have encountered during the past months. We invite you to use these postcards / posters also as a way to engage with the questions of memory and independence in a situation where we still have over 101 people being held captive in Gaza.
Bringing the Hostages to Your Seder: Seder Supplement
How might we integrate hope for the return of our hostages into our Seders this year? How might we meaningfully engage an intergenerational group with the hostage issue at the Seder table?
“Let Our People Go”: The Power of Being an Upstander
What makes an effective upstander? Does one need to be a public leader in order to be an upstander? How might we find inspiration from the upstanders of the Passover story to become upstanders to help the hostages?
When the Four Children Aren’t There to Ask Questions at the Seder
Based on the traditional “Four Children” of the Haggadah, and the ritual of the “Four Questions”, this unit provides suggestions for ways we might adopt the question-asking element of the Seder to provoke timely, thoughtful questions and discussion at our Seder this year.
The Fast of Esther: A Time for Communal Gathering & Solidarity
There is a commandment in the Torah which calls on every person over the age of 20 to contribute a half-shekel to the community. This commandment is read in synagogues today during the regular Torah reading cycle, with an additional reading that highlights this commandment on the Shabbat leading into the month of Adar (or Adar Bet during a leap year). How can we use the values behind this mitzvah to illustrate the importance that each and every person contribute to bringing the hostages home?
