I’m in the process of developing better visuals for my Introduction to Judaism classes. The first thing I need to do is collect good photos and graphics about lifecycle and holiday celebrations.
I will use photos from my own collection, but that would not represent the vast diversity of practice in the Jewish world. That’s why I’m coming to you to ask for this. If you have pictures of your holidays, or of your lifecycle events, that illustrate the holiday or event in some way, I would be most grateful if you would allow me to use them.
You will retain ownership of your photo. No one but me will be able to download it, and I promise to use it ONLY for the PowerPoint presentation I will use in my classes.
The most useful photos will illustrate some aspect of the event: someone lighting a menorah, a 13 year old reading from the Torah, a family around the seder table, the wedding party dancing the hora. If you have a beautiful mezuzah on your door, send a photo of it! If you have a lovely ketubah and you have a picture of it, that would be great!
I’m using a website called DropEvent.com for this. The photos will be visible at that site, under the name IntroJudaismPhotos, with the tag “now33420.”
Emailed photos can be sent to now33420@dropevent.com
To upload a photo from this screen, you can just click on THIS LINK.
Thank you very much! By doing this, you’ve made my classes better and my students better informed about the wonderful diversity of the Jewish world!
Kol ha-kavod. Great idea. I’ve uploaded a few photos from our Purim and Shavuot family days at Kehilat Nitzan in Melbourne, Australia.
The photos are great! Thank you very, very much. I will make sure that students know those photos are from Kehilat Nitzan.
What a wonderful idea! I’ll dig through my photo library and see what I can find.
Thank you!!! I am touched and delighted by the response so far. These are really going to be helpful to my students.
Just uploaded two photos. I’ll look to see what others I have which might be of use. Thank you for inviting us to contribute to your work!
Thank YOU, Lee! I have been touched by the response to this. It’s going to do wonders for my Intro slides, and will help teach the students that there are many different ways to do Jewish.
Thank you!