Welcome to the youth curriculum for Race, Religion, and American Judaism. This curriculum brings together three broad topics that interact in complex and life-altering ways. For all their impact on society and on people’s lives, most of us have not had opportunities to engage in focused study and discussion of what these topics mean and how they shape our history, identities, institutions, and experiences.

This curriculum provides youth and their families an opportunity to explore, discuss, and gain greater understanding of race, religion, and Judaism, and of their interactions and impact. Due to the vastness and complexity of these three topics, these lessons can engage only a sliver of the many ways that race, religion and Judaism have played out in history and in our lives. This curriculum is based on new research by leading scholars working in an array of academic fields.