Comments | gelishan: ....:/

gelishan

....:/

Oct 10, 2010 21:25

OK, so. First class? It went OK. Not great, but OK-- I need some practice keeping chatty girls from talking in class, but that's the worst of what went wrong. But the coordinator wants it more grounded in Jewish texts... which is what I know the least about, which is embarrassing as a Jew, but true. I can tell you a lot of important Jewish ( Read more... )

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blissful_queen October 11 2010, 03:46:59 UTC

Got my fingers crossed, although I know you'll do quite well regardless <3.

debka_notion October 11 2010, 11:51:30 UTC

Dance- there's stuff about young women dancing in borrowed white garments on Tu B'Av, in order for men to see them and decide they want to marry them. That shouldn't be too hard to find if I take a look. ry

Community is pretty vague- what are you looking for? I'll try to take a look a bit later today, but otherwise, I'll see if H has any ideas tonight, I guess. His bank of texts he can name is better than mine. If you have a couple of texts, will your coordinator take that as a start? I don't know that I can provide you with a semester's worth of texts today.

gelishan October 11 2010, 21:27:05 UTC

Thank you so much for responding.

The problem is I’m not entirely sure what I'm looking for. The enduring theme of my class is, I hope, going to be the connection between the Jewish community and the major fight against social norms that are harmful and untruthful (using the Golden Calf myth as a springboard.) So I’d need to find texts that supported that connection, as well as connections between that idea of fighting negative social norms and what the students felt were important aspects of a community (this Wednesday’s theme will be ‘common interests.’) And I’d like to connect Judaism and community more solidly with the dance I’m teaching, if possible, but I know that’s a tall order.

If there are any texts that talk about community in general, I’d love to take a look at them. Or heck, even any particularly exciting texts about Rosh Chodesh.

debka_notion October 12 2010, 13:24:31 UTC

If you can get your hands on the curriculum for "Rosh Hodesh: It's a Girls' Thing" (the name may not be perfectly precise), that may have some good source materials ( ... )