Any Ideas for my project?

[schrodinger's cat]

I have a final project for my college Jewish studies class.  The professor said that because our class was so good, we get to choose the topic for our final projects.  It can be anything related to Jews and Judaism.  It also doesn't have to be an essay, but it can be a presentation or even an art project.

Obviously I would choose Rabbi Kahane, however the professor is liberal and I don't think it would be a good idea.

Any ideas??

[q_q_]

I have a final project for my college Jewish studies class.  The professor said that because our class was so good, we get to choose the topic for our final projects.  It can be anything related to Jews and Judaism.  It also doesn't have to be an essay, but it can be a presentation or even an art project.

Obviously I would choose Rabbi Kahane, however the professor is liberal and I don't think it would be a good idea.

Any ideas??

Perhaps you could give some consideration to the topics he has taught or touched upon, that's a safe option. A more daring option would be a topic that he -would- teach.  It goes without saying that it should be something you are or could be interested in, or at least, not something you are uninterested in/unbearably bored by.

 

[nopeaceforland]

How about the ACLU or the ADL or any other well run organization that should combat anti-Semitism?


What about the commies in the Israeli gov't running Israel into the ground?

....But Rabbi Kahane? ...Now that's a bad idea? What has this world come to?

[Rubystars]

What about the history of the JDL?

[schrodinger's cat]

What about the history of the JDL?

Thanks for that suggestion.  I will see if I can find some objective sources.  Most of the stuff I have read about it is left wing garbage.

[Rubystars]

What about the history of the JDL?

Thanks for that suggestion.  I will see if I can find some objective sources.  Most of the stuff I have read about it is left wing garbage.

Most instructors let you use interviews as sources. Do you think you could ask Chaim a question and then cite the program? That could be one of your sources.

[q_q_]

Try the book rabbi kahane wrote called "The Story Of The JDL" !

[schrodinger's cat]

Try the book rabbi kahane wrote called "The Story Of The JDL" !

Thanks qq and Rubystars.   I will try to get the book and consider asking a question to Chaim as well.

[pkmb70]

I have a final project for my college Jewish studies class.  The professor said that because our class was so good, we get to choose the topic for our final projects.  It can be anything related to Jews and Judaism.  It also doesn't have to be an essay, but it can be a presentation or even an art project.

Obviously I would choose Rabbi Kahane, however the professor is liberal and I don't think it would be a good idea.

Any ideas??

Call some local synagogues, then interview the rabbis, directors, and clean-up crew of places of worship that were vandalized with swastikas and other anti-Semitic trash in the past. If anything, it will force your professor to confront the issue that Jews have a tough time here in NYC. Be sure to ask those fellows what they think about the idea that some of those racist idiots say the Rabbis did it to their own places of worship. The angrier you allow them to get, the more the project will hit home.

[schrodinger's cat]

I have a final project for my college Jewish studies class.  The professor said that because our class was so good, we get to choose the topic for our final projects.  It can be anything related to Jews and Judaism.  It also doesn't have to be an essay, but it can be a presentation or even an art project.

Obviously I would choose Rabbi Kahane, however the professor is liberal and I don't think it would be a good idea.

Any ideas??

Call some local synagogues, then interview the rabbis, directors, and clean-up crew of places of worship that were vandalized with swastikas and other anti-Semitic trash in the past. If anything, it will force your professor to confront the issue that Jews have a tough time here in NYC. Be sure to ask those fellows what they think about the idea that some of those racist idiots say the Rabbis did it to their own places of worship. The angrier you allow them to get, the more the project will hit home.

hmmmmm interesting idea...

[Xoce]

Have you heard of the Japanese Schindler? 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/sugihara/film/index.html
"As Japan's consul to Lithuania, Sugihara risked career, disgrace, his life, and the lives of his family defying Tokyo by writing transit visas for refugees desperate to escape persecution. In August 1940, Sugihara spent upwards of sixteen hours a day issuing visas, until Soviet-occupied Lithuania forced the final shutdown of the country's last remaining consulates. In the end, more than 2,000 Sugihara-stamped passports allowed hundreds of families to flee Europe through Russia to safe havens abroad. Today it is estimated that more than 40,000 people owe their very existence to Sugihara's heroic acts of humanitarianism."

Maybe you can use part of the pbs film in a presentation.

Your liberal professor surely can not take offense to this topic.

Although I also like pkmb70's suggestion about anti-Semitic vandalism.