Educational Resources
Refugee and Race Equality Informal Education Resource – 2016
JCORE’s Refugee & Race Equality Informal Education Resource contains information, activities and ready made sessions on refugee and asylum issues
Cycle of History – Refugees
From Student Rabbi Deborah Blausten comes a lesson exploring how Jewish experience as refugees might inform our approach to refugee issues today.
In Search of Safety
Unicef’s schools resource on Europe’s refugee crisis contains over 20 learning activities to enable you to explore refugee issues asylum issues with children and young people.
Red Cross Refugee Lessons
The Red Cross education team have a number of ready made lessons exploring refuge, conflict, children and other issues related to the Red Cross’ work.
A Safe Place
A Safe Place – Combatting Racist Myths Against Asylum Seekers is a resource booklet from Show Racism the Red Card.
Children in Conflict – ActionAid
ActionAid UK have put together a lesson exploring the impact of conflict on children, specifically in the context of the Syrian Civil War.
Organisations who run educational sessions
Jewish Council for Racial Equality (JCORE)
Refugees, asylum, racism & race equality.
Human Rights.
Disasters & emergencies, first aid, refugees, conflict, social cohesion.
Racism, social cohesion, multiculturalism, sport.
Passover Resources
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Safe Exodus?
We’re asked during our Passover Seder to remember that we were slaves in Egypt. As a people we embarked on a long and dangerous Exodus to safety and freedom. This Pesach we ask you to think about all those who today must embark on their own personal exodus to escape persecution and conflict. Include this one page supplement in your Seder to find out and discuss how safe the Exodus really was and what do the journeys of today’s refugees look like?
Download it from JCORE’s website.
Key
For Freedom
This Pesach we ask you to put a key on your Seder plate and explain to people why you are doing this. Get involved and take a small step to help raise awareness of the plight of all those in indefinite detention and tell people around your Passover table that it is time for a time limit.
Find out more on Rene Cassin’s website.
This Passover, Take A Stand for Refugees
As we celebrate the Jewish people’s biblical exodus from Egypt, we remember that there are 60 million displaced people around the world, people fleeing violence and persecution in search of a safe place to call home. We are currently in the midst of the worst refugee crisis since World War II.
At the Passover Seder, we drink four cups of to remember the four expressions of God’s redemption of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. We also pour but do not drink a fifth cup of win, Elijah’s cup, to symbolise that, though we were freed from slavery, redemption is not complete so long as others are still enslaved.