Programming and Curriculum

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At both Penn State and Lycoming College, I developed programming and curriculum for their respective Jewish Studies programs, often in cooperation with my teacher and colleague, Paula Wapnish Hesse (in the yellow jacket below). Some of our work included a trip to Kayam, a Jewish Food Movement farm in Maryland; a symposium on agriculture, eating, the bible and Jewish Food Movements with keynote speaker Ellen Davis; and cleaning and research about the historic Jewish cemetery in Bellefonte, PA.

The department bulletin board on the right displays student work from a course at Lycoming College where we explored the relationship between history, literature and what we understand about key figures from the Hebrew Bible and the Second Temple Period. Students had to create their own "propaganda" for a particular person or even a city, like Jerusalem.