Articles about Judaism
How is the Jewish faith defended?
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This article is for paying subscribers Research Update: Darwin’s Jews
Exploring religious diversity with 3–7s
The best that has been thought and said
This issue of REtoday is themed around ‘the best that has been thought and said’. The quote is from Rugby School’s Victorian headmaster Matthew Arnold. It is his description of what the curriculum might consist...
Jewish compassion in action: Triptych on Charity
Karen Van Coevorden, a former RE teacher, works for the Jewish Museum in London. We asked her for an example of the best of the museum’s collection. This one really repays study! There is a PowerPoint sequence on...
A scheme of work on Judaism: what influences the Jewish people?
Rebecca Ostler wanted more thinking in her lessons on Judaism. Here is how she aimed to get it.
Inside a faith
1. Please mention a story from your religion/belief that meant a lot to you as a child, and say why.
2. What story or stories do you think children should know about from the origins of your...
This article is for paying subscribers We asked people from different religions and beliefs to tell us what it means to them to ‘sing their own song’
Here are replies from a Buddhist, a Humanist, a Christian, a Jewish person and a Muslim. Read these with your older pupils, and ask them to think of their own answers to the interview questions we used. The questions...
Faith in science? Faith in God?
This term’s theme is about the nature of faith and about the frontiers and borders between science and religions. We invited people from different religions and beliefs to contribute a personal perspective on the...
Lesson spinning in RE
How and why a teacher might make use of contemporary popular culture, or popular items that could be classed as a craze, is always potentially controversial. Here Neil McKain satirises the potential use of them as...
This article is for paying subscribers Improve your RE subject knowledge
This article is for paying subscribers Book review – How I Stopped Being a Jew
This article is for paying subscribers Teach through song: songs for the secondary classroom
In this article Chris Hancock offers two sets of songs to use for secondary RE. On this page are songs through which you might teach some basic concepts in subject knowledge, and on the next page there are some songs...
This article is for paying subscribers Christians singing their own song in Calais’s refugee camp
We wanted to explore the controversy that arose when BBC’s Songs of Praise was broadcast from a makeshift church in the ‘Calais Jungle’ refugee camp last summer.
This article is for paying subscribers A solution to the problem of faith schools
This article is for paying subscribers Singing in Jewish life and celebrations
Stephen Melzack is a Jewish musician who works with pupils in all kinds of schools. We asked him how music can help RE, starting with one of his most popular songs: ‘Two Candles Burn’, about Shabbat.
This article is for paying subscribers Jewish Interfaith RE
As the RE subject leader (and Year 2 teacher) at Akiva, a progressive Jewish primary school in Finchley, London, I am committed to finding interesting ways to enhance the curriculum and raise the profile of RE across...
This article is for paying subscribers Talking to children about what is most important
Professor Robert Winston gave the keynote speech at the Board of Deputies of British Jews’ first Teaching Judaism conference, run in conjunction with the Catholic Education Service. RE teacher Adina Bernstein went...
This article is for paying subscribers Sing your own song
Everybody sang. The original musical instrument is the human voice.