Friday 19 June 2015

Jewish Heritage Centre ~ Class 2

On Thursday the children in Class 2 visited the Jewish Heritage Centre in Shadwell as part of our topic on Judaism.

 
We started the day by watching some videos about Judaism presented by Jewish children.
 
 
We tasted some matzah which is unleavened bread eaten by the Jewish people during the week long Passover holiday.
 

 
We visited the Shtetl which is a traditional Jewish village. We found out that Jewish people worked together for the good of the community doing skills such as cooking and sewing. Hard work was encouraged and laziness was frowned upon.
 
 
 
We saw lots of Menorahs which are lit at the Jewish festival of Hannakh.
 
 
We saw how the table would be set for Shabatt on a Friday evening with the word shabatt written in Hebrew on the cover over the Challah bread.
 
 
We made our own covers and used a stencil to write the Hebrew letters.
 
 

We enjoyed adding our own decorations.
 
 

We made some Challah bread by rolling three pieces of dough and then plaited them together.
 
 
We glazed the bread with egg..
 

...and put some poopy seeds on top.
 
 
They were ready for the oven and they looked great!
 

We visited the kosher supermarket and found out about the different labels to look for on kosher foods.
 


We chose some kosher food for a meal and payed for it at the till.
 
 
We had to decide whether to cook our meals in the meat area...
 

..or the milk area in the kosher kitchen.
 
 
 
At last it was time for lunch. We all tucked into our kosher sandwiches.
 
 
After lunch we went into the synagogue and has the opportunity to see the real Torah Scrolls which are kept safely inside the ark. We had a fantastic day and learnt a great deal about the Jewish faith.
 
 
 
 

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