Welcome to Kitah Zayin (Grade 7) Meet your teacher, see your schedule, and learn about your curriculum!
Claire Goldberg
Kitah Zayin Teacher
Liz Krushnic
Kitah Zayin Co-Teacher
Liz Krushnic (she/her/hers) is excited to enter her third year working with the wonderful students of the CDT Religious School. Prior to her time at CDT, Liz worked for three years as the Youth & Community Organizer at Boston Workers Circle Center for Jewish Culture and Social Justice, where she ran the Teens Acting for Social Change program. In addition to working at CDT, Liz is Clinical Herbalist Intern at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. In her spare time, she loves baking birthday cakes, and spending time in her garden in Jamaica Plain. A Newton native, Liz is delighted to be working in the community where she grew up.
Curriculum Overview
The 7th grade curriculum focuses on Jewish experience in the 20th century. Themes include diversity of Jewish life in pre-war Europe, Jewish immigration and experience in the United States, development of different strands of Zionist thought, the holocaust (Using a Facing History approach), modern Israel: cultural narratives and ethical dilemmas, movements of American Judaism.