Welcome to Kitah Zayin (Grade 7): Meet your teacher and learn about your curriculum!
Or Levinson (they/them)
Kitah Zayin (Seventh Grade)
Or is excited to be joining the Dorshei Tzedek team as this year’s Kitah Zayin Lead Teacher! Or is a dancer, facilitator, and educator; they have been based in Minneapolis for the past 13 years and are now thrilled to be transitioning to the Boston area to begin their rabbinic education at Hebrew College. Their creative work often features klezmer music, Yiddish folk dance, and themes of Jewish diaspora and the search for home, belonging, and solidarity on Native land. Before moving to Boston, Or served as Youth and Family Education Assistant Director at Shir Tikvah Synagogue for two years. They delight in teaching movement workshops for all ages. They are also a minimally but enthusiastically practicing herbalist, and can be found wandering in the woods whenever time allows.
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.