The Teacher Resource Center at HaSifria provides support and resources to Jewish educators.

• Books in the Teacher Resource Center cover topics that include children’s Bibles, teaching Torah, teaching Talmud and Mishna, basic Judaism, prayer, blessings, Shabbat, holidays, teaching Hebrew, using drama, parsha and other plays, arts and crafts, and mitzvah project ideas as well as teacher handbooks with practical strategies and innovations.
• Lesson plans, including the Chidush Award winners- creative and innovative lesson plans created by Boulder educators to further Jewish education, cover a variety of topics.
• Monthly emails are sent to the Directors of educational programs listing some of the resources available in the library and on the web.
• Teacher orientation manuals are available.
• Some of the resources available in the library and on the web are listed on this website.

And more…

Just a few sites on the web about Passover:
http://www.jewfaq.org/holidaya.htm (Judaism 101)
http://www.ou.org/chagim/pesach/ (OU, includes kashrut guide)
http://urj.org/holidays/pesach (Reform)
http://www.uscj.org/seabd/holidays.htm (Conservative- click on Keeping the Story Alive: Questions and Reflections for the Seder Table)
http://www.jrf.org/passover (Reconstructionist)
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/passover/default.asp (Chabad - for kids)
http://www.chadiscrafts.com/fun/passover.html (crafts)
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/passover/passover.html (recipes and explanations about foods)
http://www.holidays.net/passover/recipes.htm (recipes)
http://www.theholidayspot.com/passover/jokes_for_passover.htm (jokes)
http://www.babaganewz.com/teachers/index_main.cfm?cat=10&sub=holidayspesach (mini-lessons, crafts, teaching tips and more)
http://www.babaganewz.com/holidays/index.cfm?cat=23&sub=pesachcentral (games)

Counting the Omer:
http://www.jewfaq.org/holidayb.htm (Judaism 101)
http://www.uscj.org/seabd/holidays.htm (Conservative- click on Counting the Omer – And Making Each Day Count)
http://omer.jrf.org/ (Reconstructionist: Topics of study for every week of the Omer)
http://www.aish.com/holidays/counting_the_omer/default.asp (Aish HaTorah)
http://www.babaganewz.com/teachers/pdfs/85quickomer.pdf (Omer counter scroll craft)

Yom HaShoah

A few of the resources in HaSifria:

Searching on the word “Holocaust” in the library catalog brings up over 450 results. There are many, many resources available.

For Adults:

• Atlas of the Holocaust, Gilbert Martin (Reference)
• The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetuators and Bystanders
• Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust, Yaffa Eliach
• The Holocaust Museum in Washington
• Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community under Siege
• Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman
• Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi
• Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, Ber Mark
• Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral History
• And many more…

For Children:

• The Butterfly, Patricia Polacco
• The Cats in Krasinski Square, Karen Hesse
• The Children We Remember, Chana Abells
• Grandma Esther Remembers, Ann Morris
• The Tattooed Torah, Marvel Ginsberg
• Who Was the Woman Who Wore the Hat, Nancy Patz
• And many more….

In the Teacher Resource Center:

• To Bear Witness: an Educational Kit for Teaching the Holocaust
• Kids Love Holiday Crafts, Tracey Agranoff
• The World that Was: Poland, Rabbi Yitzchak Kasnett
• The World that Was: Lithuania, Rabbi Yitzchak Kasnett
• The World that Was: Hungary/Roumania, Rabbi Yitzchak Kasnett

CDs:

• Requiem: The Holocaust

Videos and DVDs:

• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
• Daniel’s Story
• Paper Clips
• The Sorrow and the Pity
• Sugihara
• They Risked Their Lives: Rescuers of the Holocaust
• Unlikely Heroes
• And many more…

Just a few sites on the web about Yom HaShoah:

http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/holocaust/ (Jewish Learning Network)

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm (20th Century History- includes a section on how the date was chosen)

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm (20th Century History-articles, photographs, and more)

http://urj.org/holidays/hashoah/ ( Union for Reform Judaism)

http://www.knesset.gov.il/shoah/eng/eshoah.htm (The Knesset)

http://www.zachor.org.il/english/ (Zachor: Faith During the Holocaust)

http://www.yadvashem.org/ (Yad VaShem)

http://www.ushmm.org/ ( United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

http://www.annefrank.com/ ( Anne Frank Center)