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Available for 5th and 6th grades for the upcoming school year 5771, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, in partnership with Tzivos Hashem, has produced an unprecedented curriculum.

New Groundbreaking School Curriculum

Available for 5th and 6th grades for the upcoming school year 5771, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, in partnership with Tzivos Hashem, has produced an unprecedented curriculum.

With the goal of raising the level of Jewish Studies curricula, the content is designed to impart a strong and broad overview of the entire Torah (“כל התורה כולה”), using the 613 Mitzvos as the framework.

The “Lessons and Laws” curriculum has been piloted in a handful of day schools across the globe, including those in Pittsburg, Los Angeles, Detroit, and London. Feedback from students has been very positive, with specific interest in the curriculum’s engaging and stimulating style.

Samples are already available to test in your school now, and within a few weeks orders can be placed, through Tzivos Hashem, to implement the curriculum for the coming school year.

Some of the exciting features of this curriculum are:

· Elements from current educational theories and methods, finally applied to Torah subjects.
· Content variety to appeal to children on any academic level.
· Prepared workbook activities.
· Written in child-friendly language.
· Flexibility in both the level and timeframe of each lesson.
· Beautiful design and researched layout.
· Teacher’s Guide complete with additional information, presentation ideas, prepared tests and answer sheets, lesson objectives and much more.

The project is sponsored by the Rohr Family, in loving memory of Mrs. Sara Rohr ע“ה

Some quotes from educators who reviewed the project:

“The lack of curriculum in Jewish Studies is both surprising and devastating. Once this is implemented, it will raise the awareness of what can and must be done for ALL topics in Jewish Studies. This is most probably the most monumental thing happening in Chinuch today”
– Rabbi B. Ginsberg
(Dean, Torah Academy Minneapolis MN)

“This will raise the entire learning experience across ALL limmudei kodesh subjects. It is nothing short of amazing!”
– Rabbi M. Rottenberg
(Principal, Viener Cheder, Monsey)

“The knowledge children will gain from this curriculum will empower them in all other Jewish subjects. They will be knowledgeable is the entire Torah!”
– Rabbi M. Possick
(Director of School and Personnel Services, Torah Umesorah)

“It will help the students to feel a relevance and excitement about the whole Torah, and after all, that is the goal of our chinuch.”
– Mrs. S. Aberback
(Founder and Director of “Project Derech”)

For more information and to order the ”Lessons and Laws” curriculum, please contact the program’s editor-in-chief Rabbi Zalman Glick at zalman@jcm.museum.

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15 Comments

  • Baila Kreiner

    Amazing were Can I get more information about it. How to get it and the cost of it.

  • Mushky

    I wish I could have learnt “kol haTorah kula” at that young age. Which schools will be implementing this curriculum?

  • Efi

    I wounder if viner cheder and the others who endorsed this will have it in there yeshevos my money says… No way

  • CT

    As a parent who does not live in N.Y. and provides supplemental education for my two children, is it possible to buy an individual teacher edition and two student editions? If so, how can I obtain them?

  • chinuch-is-our-future

    where and when can we see an sample copy of this. i think this is amazing for talmidim as well as michanchim.
    the quotes are from some top michnchim that care and actually make a difference in the world of chinuch like Rabbi Ginsberg and Rabbi Rotenberg, i have been to there classes 2 summers in a row and implement into my class what i have learned from them

  • Shoshana Zohari

    Hey fellow home-schoolers! Contact Zalman Glick over at Tzivos Hashem and tell him that you are interested. He was very kind and receptive when I called him this morning.

  • isaac

    let’s see the Crow Heights Mosdos embrace this program and finally have something to show.

  • Don-t stop here!!

    This is GREAT. And it’s really only the tip of the iceberg – this should be done for Jewish History as well!!

  • Crown Heights Educator

    To implement this properly, the boys schools are going to have to find some sort of way for the children to learn how to read English (not secular studies). At the present moment, not every boy in 5th grade in crown heights knows how to read english.

  • Its about time

    Reading English – the language of the country in which you live – is not secular studies. Nor for that matter is math. They are both ‘limud stam’. If one can’t add or do other basic mathematics, learning Gemara concepts and simple issues of ‘tefachim’ and other measurements become much more difficult.
    Unfortunately, boys being educated in CH can’t really do this level of a curriculum in Hebrew or Yiddish either. They are being taught in ‘spit-back’ form. Tests are generally multiple choice, so a student doesn’t have to know proper grammer to write in any language either.
    Hopefully, CH boys’ schools will see this as important and teachers will agree to study the text and add it to their out-dated curriculums -even if it means a bit of extra work and time on their part.
    My boys have a similar workbook in Hebrew called Halacha Yomi. Every morning after davening they learn the halacha of the day. Each grade has it at an appropriate level.