Just in Time for Hanukkah--A Free Resource from the Montana Jewish Project

Longtime readers will remember that I really like Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate. The picture book was based on a 1993 episode in Billings. After members of a hate group threw a rock through a Jewish family's window during Hanukkah, the community organized in opposition. Over 10,000 Billings residents displayed pictures of menorahs in their windows as an expression of solidarity with their Jewish neighbors.

We included the book and a lesson plan in our hands-on history footlocker Coming to Montana: Immigrants from Around the World. (Information on ordering the footlocker can be found here.) 

Now the Montana Jewish Project is offering to send fifty Montana schools a kit that includes a copy of the book, a menorah, dreidls (special tops that Jewish children play with at Hanukkah), and a lesson plan that was adapted (with permission) from the lesson we created for Coming to Montana. And unlike the MTHS footlocker, these kits are yours to keep.

• Preview the lesson plan. 
• Hear the book read on YouTube.
• Apply to receive one of these book kits here.
• Learn more about the Montana Jewish Project.