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LIFE CYCLE
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Karen Ackerman Just Like Max Aging, Memories All
Karen Ackerman Song and Dance Man Aging, Memories Lower Elementary
Aliki The Two of Them Aging, Death All
Itzik Becher Living Traditions Life Cycle Upper Elementary
A Celebration of Jewish Life Traditions, World Jewry, Israel
Eve Bunting Fly Away Home Homelessness Upper Elementary
Leo Buscaglia The Fall of Freddie the Leaf Life and Death All
Ethel Clifford The Remembering Box Memories, Death Upper Elementary
Barbara Cohen The King of the Seventh Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary Grade
Miriam Cohen Best Friends Friendship All
Martin Elant Bar Mitzvah Lessons Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary
Mem Fox Wilfrid, Gordon, McDonald, Memories, Aging All Partridge
Janet Gallant My Brother’s Bar Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary
Ellie Gellman Justin’s Hebrew Name Naming Upper Elementary
A. Goldstein My Very Own Jewish Home Life Cycle, Symbols All
Phyllis Grode Sophie’s Name Naming, Memories Upper Elementary
Esther Hautzig A Gift for Mama Gifts, Mother’s Day Upper Elementary
Linda Heller The Castle on Hester Street Memories All
Amy Hest Fancy Aunt Jess Marriage Upper Elementary
Nancy Karowsky Grandma’s Soup Aging Upper Elementary
Alice Lanckton The Bar Mitzvah Mother’s Bar Mitzvah Adult Manual
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LIFE CYCLE (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Sandy Lanton Daddy’s Chair Death and Mourning Upper Elementary
Patricia Polacco The Keeping Quilt Life Cycle All
Chaim Potok The Tree of Here Moving Upper Elementary
Stephen Rittner All That You Want to Know B’nei Mitzvah Upper Elementary About the Bar-Bat Mitzvah
R. Rosenblum My Bar Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary
R. Rosenblum The Old Homelessness Upper Elementary
Cynthia Rylant Miss Maggie Friendship, Aging, Caring for Animals
Stephen Schnur The Narrowest Bar Mitzvah Bar Mitzvah Upper Elementary
Stephen Schnur The Return of Morris Wedding Upper Elementary Schumsky
Philip Sendak In Grandpa’s House Death, Memories Upper Elementary
Carol Snyder Ike and Mama and the Once- Mother, Son Upper Elementary a-Year Suit
Hope Wasburn Dear Hope… Love, Life Stories Upper Elementary Grandma
Margaret Wild The Very Best of Friends Death All
SHABBAT
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Celia P. Block When Sabbath Came He Creation & Shabbat Lower Elementary Rested
Rabbi Baruch Chait The 39 Avoth Melacha of Shabbat/Mitzvot All Shabbath
M. Feinberg Just Enough Room Shabbat Dinner All
Yaffa Leba Gottlieb Eli and Ohn Shabbat Story Elementary
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SHABBAT (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Faige Kobre A Sense of Shabbat Shabbat Lower Elementary
H. Schwartz The Sabbath Lion Shabbat Folktale All
Daniel J. Swartz Bim and Bom: A Shabbat Shabbat Elementary Tale
Raymond Zwerin Shabbat Can Be Shabbat Lower Elementary
HIGH HOLY DAYS
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Gates of Awe Prayers All
Miriam Chaikin Sound the Shofar History, Symbols Upper Elementary
H. Chanover Service for the High Holy Prayer Book Upper Elementary Days
Barbara Cohen Yussel’s Prayer Yom Kippur All
Arthur Finkle The Shofar Sounder Shofar Elementary and Up
Barbara D. Goldin The World’s Birthday Rosh Hashanah All
Philip Goodman The Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah Adult/Children Anthology
Philip Goodman The Yom Kippur Yom Kippur Adult/Children Antholology
Eric Kimmel Days of Awe Stories Upper Elementary
Carol Levin A Rosh Hashanah Walk Tashlich All
Patricia Polacco The Bee Tree Books, Bees Elementary
S.R. Weilerstein K’tonton’s Yom Kippur Yom Kippur Upper Elementary Kitten
SUKKOT
Author Title Theme Grade Level
David Adler The House on the Roof Sukkot Upper Elementary
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SUKKOT (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Yaffa Ganz Yedidya and the Esrog Tree Sukkot All
Ellie Gellman Tamar’s Sukkah Sukkot All
Barbara D. Goldin Night Lights Sukkot Elementary
Joel Grishaver Tanta Tevya and the Magic Sukkot Upper Elementary Booth
Patricia Polacco Tikvah Means Hope Hope, Sukkot Elementary
Elsa Okon Rael When Zaydeh Danced on Simachat Torah All Eldridge Street
Peninnah Schram The Big Sukkah Sukkot All
Jane B. Zalben Leo & Blossom’s Sukkah Sukkot All
HANUKKAH
Author Title Theme Grade Level
David A. Adler One Yellow Daffodil Hanukkah Elementary
Sholem Alechem Hanukkah Money Hanukkah Gifts Upper Elementary
Miriam Chaikin Hanukkah History All
Janice Cohn The Christmas Menorahs Jewish/Christian Elementary+
Martin Gal Eight Great Dreidel Stories Hanukkah Stories Teen/Adults
Ellie Gellman Jeremy’s Dreidel Dreidel Story Upper Elementary
Harriet Feder Judah Who Always Said Judah Maccabee Lower Elementary “No!”
Marilyn Hirsh Potato Pancakes All Around Latkes All
Eric Kimmel The Chanukah Guest Hanukkah Tale Primary
Eric Kimmel Hershel and the Hanukkah Hanukkah Tale Upper Elementary Goblins
Jenny Koralek Hanukkah Story of Hanukkah Elementary
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HANUKKAH (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
KTAV My Dreidel Coloring Book Hanukkah Elementary
Patricia Polacco The Trees of the Dancing Story All Goats
Dina Rosenfeld A Chanukah Story for Night Hanukkah Upper Elementary Number Three
B. Scharfstein Chanukah Fun and Story Stories, Poems, Games Elementary Book
Steven Schnur The Tie Man’s Miracle Tale 5th Grade and Up
Roni Schotter Hanukkah Story Lower Elementary
Cherie K. Schwartz My Lucky Dreidel Stories, Songs, Poems All
Raymond Zwerin Like a Maccabee Maccabees Elementary
TU B’SHEVAT
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Jeannie Baker Where the Forest Meets the Rain Forest, Nature Lower Elementary Sea
Lynne Cherry The Great Kapok Tree Rain Forest Elementary
Helen Cowcher Rain Forest Rain Forest, Animals, Lower Elementary Nature
Alice McLerran The Mountain That Loved a Nature, Animals Upper Elementary Bird
Natalia Romanova Once There Was a Tree Trees, Nature Elementary
Uri Shulevitz Dawn Nature Elementary
Neil Waldman The Never-Ending History, Israel Elementary Greenness
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PURIM
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Miriam Chaikin Make Noise, Make Merry Story, Meaning Middle School
Harriet Feder It Happened in ShuShan Story Preschool/Primary
My Jewish Library Make-Me-A-Match Purim Hebrew Matching Early Elementary
Saypol and Wikler My Very Own Megillah Story 3rd and 4th Grades
Raymond Zwerin A Purim Album Story Elementary
PESACH
Author Title Theme Grade Level
David Adler A Picture Book of Passover Story, Customs Upper Elementary
Anonymous Who Knows One? Song All
Susan Atlas The Passover Passage Passover, Freedom Middle School and Up
Julie J. Auerbach Everything’s Changing – It’s Passover Lower Elementary Pesach
Barbara Cohen The Carp in the Bathtub Passover Preparation Elementary
David Geffen American Heritage All Haggadah
Norman Geller Farfel: the Cat That Left Pesach Upper Elementary Egypt
Barbara D. Goldin The Magician’s Visit Passover Tale Elementary
Barbara D. Goldin The Passover Journey A Seder Companion Elementary
Joel L. Grishaver Building a Jewish Life Haggadah 4th Grade and Up Haggadah
Leonard Jaffe A Pitzel Passover Story Elementary
Nina Jaffe The Mysterious Visitor Stories of Elijah All
Nancy Krulik Penny & the Four Questions Seder Elementary/Middle School
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PESACH (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Shoshana Lepon The Ten Plagues of Egypt Plagues Elementary
Fran Manushkin The Matzah That Papa Seder Elementary Brought Home
Francine Medoff The Mouse in the Matzah Matzah Elementary Factory
Deborah U. Miller Only Nine Chairs Seder, Tall Tale Lower Elementary
David Moss The Moss Haggadah Haggadah All
Miriam Nerlove Passover History, Seder Primary-3rd Grade
Patricia Polacco Mrs. Katz & Tush Immigration, Freedom Middle School
Mindy Portnoy Matzah Ball Baseball, Pesach Primary/Elementary
Susan C. Poskanzer What Can it Be? Riddles About Passover Elementary
Sylvia A. Rouss Sammy Spider’s First Story Book Primary Passover
Judyth R. Saypol My Very Own Haggadah Songs and Activities Elementary
Rosalind Schilder Dayenu or How Uncle Pesach Story Elementary Murray Saved the Seder
Roni Schotter Passover Magic Story Book Elementary
Ori Sherman The Four Questions Symbolism of the Seder Elementary
Smadar Shir Sidi Passover A-Z Mini-Encyclopedia Elementary
Susan R. Topek A Taste for Noah Haroset Elementary
Lauren Wohl Matzoh House Passover Preparation Elementary/Middle School
Evelyn Zusman The Passover Parrot Seder, Afikomen Elementary/Middle School
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HOLIDAYS (General)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Ruth E. Brinn Let’s Celebrate Holiday Activities All
Greer F. Cashman Jewish Days & Holidays Facts, History & Middle School Customs
Malka Drucker The Family Treasury of Stories All Jewish Holidays
Simon Kops Fast, Clean & Cheap Arts & Crafts Teachers
Ruth Kozodoy The Book of Jewish Holidays History of Holidays Middle School
Myra C. Livingston Poems for Jewish Holidays: Poetry All Trip Through the Jewish Holiday Year
Susan G. Purdy Jewish Holidays Facts, Activities, Crafts All
Patricia Schaffer Chag Sameach Facts, Customs Elementary
Bea Stadtler Once Upon a Jewish Holiday Stories Elementary Holiday
Florence Zeldin A Mouse in Our Jewish Holiday Foods & Primary/Elementary House Activities
G-D/PRAYER/SYNAGOGUE
Author Title Theme Grade Level
H. Bogot & D. I Learn About G-d G-d Primary Syme
Etan Boritzer What is G-d? G-d, Comparative Elementary Studies
Mira Brichto The G-d Around Us Picture Book, Poems & Primary/Elementary Prayers
Molly Cone Hear, O Israel About G-d Stories about G-d Elementary/Middle School
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G-D/PRAYER/SYNAGOGUE (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Michelle Edwards Blessed Are You Prayers All
Grace Freeman/ Inside the Synagogue Synagogue Elementary Joan Sugarman
Judyth Groner/ Thank You G-d Child’s Prayer Book Primary/Elementary Madeline Wikler
Dorothy K. Kripke Let’s Talk About G-d G-d Elementary
Itamar Marcus Moshe’s Adventures in Brachot, Story Elementary Brachaland
Eva Pallay Sidduri Child’s Prayer Book Elementary
Mindy A. Portnoy Ima on the Bima Women Rabbis Primary/Elementary
Dina Rosenfeld Why the Moon Only Glows G-d, Midrash Primary/Elementary
Sandy E. Sasso G-d’s Paintbrush G-d Primary/Elementary
Sandy E. Sasso In G-d’s Name G-d Elementary
VALUES
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Chris Van Allsburg Just a Dream Environment, Protection Elementary
Miriam Aroner & The Kingdom of Singing Freedom Primary/Elementary Shelly Haas Birds
Judith B. Belsky Two Brothers Kindness All
Esther S. Blanc Berchick Jewish Family in Elementary Wyoming, Freedom
Joan Blos Old Henry Getting Along with Elementary Neighbors
Michelle Edwards Chicken Man Kiddutz Life Elementary/Middle School
Miriam Feinberg & Lively Legends, Jewish Stories, Activities Primary/Elementary Rena Rotenberg Values
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VALUES (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Agnes Herman & The Yanov Torah Smuggling Torah into Middle School Erwin Herman Concentration Camp
Chana R. Jacobs Take Care of Me Mezuzah Elementary
Holly Keller The Best Present Bikur Holim Elementary/Middle School
Jonathan Kendall My Name is Rachamim Rescue of Ethiopian Middle School Jewry
Margy B. Knight Talking Walls Cultures of the World Middle School
Dorothy Kripke Let’s Talk About Right and Values Elementary Wrong
Jean Marzollo Happy Birthday, Martin Elementary Luther King
Deborah U. Miller Fins and Scales A Kosher Tale Preschool/Elementary & Karen Ostrove
Ann Morris Bread, Bread, Bread Diversity Elementary/Middle School
Ann Morris Hats, Hats, Hats Diversity Elementary/Middle School
Kerry Olitzky Commentary on Jewish Ethics
Dennis Prager The Nine Questions Jewish Way of Life High School
Marjorie Priceman What Zeesie Saw on Tzedakah Elementary Delancey Street
Diane H. Rosenfeld The Very Best Place for a Tzedakah Elementary Penny
Cynthia Rylant The Relatives Came Family Life Elementary
Sol Scharfstein Let’s Do a Mitzvah Mitzvot Elementary
Lore Segal Tell Me a Mitzi Family Life Older Primary School
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VALUES (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Danny Siegel Tell Me a Mitzvah Mitzvot Middle School
Deborah Syme Partners Friendship Elementary
Mike Thaler The Teacher from the Black Elementary Lagoon
Shiffy Apelbaum, Moshe Mendel… Rescuers Mitzvah Quest, Moral All Gay Block & Courage, Holocaust Malka Drucker
BIBLE
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Leonard Baskin Moses Exodus Middle School
Pauline Baynes In the Beginning Creation Elementary
Berman, Grishaver My Weekly Sidrah Torah Portions Primary
E.L. Calisch Bible Tales Prophets, Writings Middle School
Esta Cassaway The Prophets for Young Prophets Elementary/Middle People School
Miriam Chaikin Exodus Exodus Elementary
Molly Cone Who Knows Ten? Ten Commandments Elementary
Paul Crown A Torah is Written Sefer Torah Elementary/Middle School
Alice J. Davidson The Story of Jonah Jonah Elementary
Ann Eisenberg Bible Heroes I Can Be Bible Heroes Primary
Trudy Ettelson Soul Stories and Steps Bible Stories, Spiritual Adult Recovery
Lillian Freehof Bible Legends: Genesis Intro to Midrash Elementary/Middle School
Lillian Freehof Bible Legends: Exodus Intro to Midrash Elementary/Middle School
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BIBLE (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Marc Gellman Does G-d Have a Big Toe? Stories Derived from Elementary/Middle Bible Stories School
Marc Gellman G-d’s Mailbox Stories About Stories Elementary
Barbara D. Goldin A Child’s Book of Midrash Stories From the Sages Elementary/Middle School
Ted Gross Of Rabbit’s Wool and Creation Elementary Camel’s Hair
Turner Hodges The Bible Story Library Bible Stories Elementary/Middle School
Betty Hollender Bible Stories for Little Bible Stories Elementary Children
Warwick Hutton Moses in the Bulrushes Moses Primary/Elementary
Warwick Hutton Noah and the Great Flood Noah Primary/Elementary
Ann Jonas Aardvark’s Disembark Noah’s Ark, Biblical Primary/Elementary Animals
Shoshana Lepon Joseph the Dreamer Joseph’s Dreams Elementary
Lawrence Lorimer Noah’s Ark Noah’s Ark Primary/Elementary
Norman Lynch Bible Story Cartoons: Moses Moses Elementary in the Wilds, Moses in Egypt
Norman Lynch Bible Story Cartoons: The Elementary Tower of Babel, Abraham, Isaac, Gideon & Samson
Dona Meilach First Book of Bible Heroes Bible Heroes Elementary
Julia Miner The Shepherd’s Song 23rd Psalm Elementary
Yona Z. Eve and Her Sisters Women of the Bible Elementary McDonough
Lore Segal The Book of Adam Bible Elementary -
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BIBLE (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Lore Segal The Story of King Saul King Saul Elementary -
Lore Segal The Story of King David King David Middle School
Ben Shahn The Alphabet of Creation Zohar Legend Primary/Elementary
Laura Simms The Baby Moses Moses Middle School
Laura Simms The Coat of Many Colors Joseph Middle School
Laura Simms The Golden Calf The Golden Calf Middle School
Laura Simms The Great Flood Noah Middle School
Isaac B. Singer Elijah the Slave Elijah Elementary
Susan R. Topek Ten Good Rules Ten Commandments Primary/Elementary
Steven M. Rosman Sidrash Stories A Torah Companion All
Nina Jaffe The Mysterious Visitor Stories of Elijah All
IMMIGRANT STORIES
Author Title Theme Grade Level
S. and I. Bayar Rachel and Mischa Judaism in the Soviet Elementary Union
Joanne Bernstein D’mitry, A Young Soviet Emigration & Middle School Immigrant Immigration
Barbara Cohen Make a Wish, Molly Russian Americans Elementary/Middle School
Linda Heller The Castle on Hester Street Immigration Primary/Elementary
Karen Hesse Letters from Rivka Emigration & Elementary/Middle Immigration School
Riki Levinson Watch the Stars Come Out Emigration & Primary/Elementary Immigration
Sonia Levitin Journey to America German Jews, Refugees, Elementary/Middle WWII School
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IMMIGRANT STORIES (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Richard Rosenblum Journey to the Golden Land Russia to Ellis Island Elementary
WAR AND PEACE
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Eve Bunting Terrible Things Allegory of the Elementary Holocaust
Eve Bunting The Wall Vietnam & Veteran’s Elementary Memorial
Jacqueline Jules The Gray Striped Shirt Holocaust Survivors Elementary
Phyllis Karas The Hate Crime Anti-Semitism Elementary – High School
Gerda W. Klein Promise of a New Spring Holocaust & Renewal Elementary
Caroline Lazo Elie Wiesel Holocaust, Biography, Middle School Peacemaker
Shulamith The Lilly Cupboard Holocaust, Righteous Elementary Oppenheim Gentiles
COLLECTIONS & CHAPTER BOOKS
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Tamar Bergman The Boys from Over There Holocaust Survivors, Middle School Kibbutz Life
Chaya Burstein Joseph and Anna’s Time Traditions of Czech Elementary/Middle Capsule Jewry School
Chaya Burstein The Mystery of the Coins Jewish History Elementary/Middle School
Simon Certner 101 Jewish Stories Folk Tales All
Carol Chapman The Tale of Meshka the Folk Tale Elementary/Middle Kvetch School
Roberta G. Cooks Gittel & the Bell Folk Tale Elementary
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COLLECTIONS & CHAPTER BOOKS (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Claud Field Jewish Legends of the Elementary & Up Middle Ages
Adele Geras My Grandmother’s Stories Collection of Folk Tales Elementary/Middle School
Patricia R. Giff December Secrets Gift Giving Elementary
Phoebe Gilman Something from Nothing Folk Tale Primary/Elementary
Jules Harlow Lessons From Our Living Folk Tales Primary/Elementary Past
Irving owe Favorite Yiddish Stories Eastern European Jews Elementary & Up
Richard Israel The Kosher Pig Jewish Life Humor High School/Adult
E.L. Konigsburg About the B’nai Bagels Baseball, Youth Elementary & Up
Caroline Lazo Elie Wiesel Biography Middle/High School
Sara Levy Mother Goose Rhymes Rhymes All
Shari Lewis One-Minute Jewish Stories Legends Elementary & Up
Richard Lewis Miracles Poems by Children All
Aunt Naomi Jewish Fairy Tales & Fables Folk Tale Elementary & Up
Shirley Newman A Child’s Introduction to Legends Primary/Elementary Torah
Mildred Phillips The Sign in Mendel’s Folk Tale Elementary Window
Francine Pose Stories From Our Living Legends Elementary Past
Tzvi Rabinowicz The Prince Who Turned into Hasidic Tales Middle School a Rooster
Galila Ron-Feder The Commander-Hero of the Redhead Gang Series Middle School Hospital
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COLLECTIONS & CHAPTER BOOKS (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
J. Leonard Romm The Swastika on the Anti-Semitism Middle School Synagogue Door
Michael Rosen The Golem of Old Prague Legend Middle School
Howard Schwartz The Diamond Tree Jewish Tales from Middle School Around the World
Howard Schwartz Elijah’s Violin Jewish Fairy Tales Middle School & Up
Simcha Publishing The Great Jewish Enjoy-a- Jewish Trivia Elementary/Middle Trivia Book School
Laura Simms A Great Miracle Happened Chanukah Middle School There
Laura Simms The Hoopoe’s Feathers King Solomon Middle School
Laura Simms The Test Satan Middle School
Isaac B. Singer Stories for Children Folk Tales Elementary & Up
Isaac B. Singer Joseph & Koza Folk Tale Elementary & Up
Isaac B. Singer Yentel the Yeshiva Boy Story Elementary & Up
Isaac B. Singer Naftali the Storyteller & His Collection of Stories Middle School & Up Horse, Sus
Isaac B. Singer Zlateh and the Goat Collection of Stories Elementary & Up
Judith Viorst If I Were in Charge of the Poems for Children & All World Parents
Sadie R. The Adventures of K’Ton Holiday Stories Elementary Weilerstein Ton
Sadie R. The Singing Way Poems for Jewish All Weilerstein Children
Sadie R. Ten and a Kid Pesach in an Eastern Elementary & Up Weilerstein European Village
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COLLECTIONS & CHAPTER BOOKS (continued)
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Beatrice S. Yiddish Folktales Folk Tales Middle School & Up Weinreich
David Wisniewski Golem Retold Traditional Tale Elementary
ISRAEL
Author Title Theme Grade Level
Giora Carmi And Shira Imagined Israel – Description & Primary/Elementary Travel Book
Judy Hoffman & S. The Children of Israel Daily Life of Israeli Elementary/Middle and T. Grand Children School
Shemuel Katz Jerusalem: Holy Business as Caricatures of Jerusalem All Usual History
Karla Kuskin Jerusalem: Shining Still History Elementary
Ann Morris When Will the Fighting Jewish-Arab Relations Elementary Stop?
Alan Paris Discover the City of Gold Tour of Jerusalem Elementary
Sheila Segal Joshua’s Dream Israel, Desert Elementary/Middle School
Barbara Sofer Shalom, Haver Rabin Elementary