• What is in the Torah?
• How is a Torah made?
• Why is it still at the centre of Jewish life?
• Are ancient texts still relevant in a modern world?

In this in-school workshop students have the chance to examine scrolls and texts, handle Jewish artefacts and scribe in Hebrew.

• How  is the beginning  and end of the Sabbath marked? In this in-school workshop students discover the ancient rules attached to keeping the Sabbath and how they have been adapted to the modern world. Shabbat is explored within a family setting, traditional symbolic foods are tasted and the Havdalah ceremony is explored.
• What does the concept of rest mean to you?
• Why do Jewish families still gather each week to celebrate the Sabbath ?

• What does a bar/bat mitzvah involve?
• How do our rights and responsibilities change as we grow up?
• What is the Jewish approach to birth, youth, marriage and death?
• How do Jewish beliefs, values and moral codes apply to modern life?
• Find out more about the Jewish rite of passage, and how the teachings of the Torah inform Jewish youth on how to conduct their lives.
• Learn more about approaches to charity, prayer and rituals through handling Jewish text and Jewish artefacts.
• Reflect on our changing identities as we develop.

• Identity, Practice and Belief: students gain an overview of key concepts of Judaism through objects and discussion.
• What do Jewish people believe?
• How do ancient religions adapt to a modern world?
• Are ancient texts still relevant?
• The similarities of all 3 monotheistic religions are explored.
• Questions and misconceptions are answered in a no-holds barred discussion.