Looking to travel the Jewish South?
Looking to bring a group to the South? Try the ISJL’s tour curriculum: Southern & Jewish On the Road! Covering topics like southern Jewish history and civil rights, this comprehensive and interactive curriculum supports Jewish professionals every step of the way—from pre-trip planning to post-trip wrap up.
The curriculum features several southern cities, including Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; and Memphis, Tennessee. Additional units on Atlanta, Georgia and New Orleans, Louisiana are in development.
Southern & Jewish On the Road is...
A Curriculum.
The benefit of the curriculum structure is two-fold. Facilitators have a travel-friendly, ready-to-use curriculum complete with hands-on activities accessible to diverse learners. Participants receive high-quality experiential Jewish education at every stop of their journey. Drawing on a wealth of multimedia sources, primary source documents, scholarly articles, and more, Southern & Jewish allows facilitators to provide and participants to receive an expertly crafted tour experience.
Flexible.
There is no “right” way to use the curriculum. The curriculum is designed so that trip leaders can tailor their southern Jewish experience to fit their group’s needs, allowing each tour to be personal and meaningful. Equipped with resources for every step of the process, facilitators can use the curriculum as a step-by-step guide for leading a tour, as a travel guide to plan their itinerary, or even as a supplement to enhance existing trip programming.
Affordable.
Our goal is to create an equitable and accessible curriculum so that as many folks possible can experience the powerful meaning-making that happens on a tour to the Jewish South.
City Units
FAQs
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The Southern & Jewish On the Road is, in essence, a “tour in a box.” There are seven curriculum units, each corresponding to a city, in addition to pre-tour and post-tour programs for groups to complete prior to and following their trips.
Each unit is broken down into two main parts. In the first part, curriculum users will find a short travel guide to their city, complete with ISJL-approved recommendations ranging from historic sites, to hotels, to service project partners. The second part of each unit includes curriculum programming for during a trip. Divided into three main sub-sections (When You Arrive…, On the Go…, and Before You Leave...), curriculum users will find activities for each historic site listed in their travel guide as well as opening and closing programs to be completed on-the-ground.
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We recommend the curriculum for adult groups and for student groups ages 13 and up. The curriculum covers a number of mature topics like violence, white supremacy, antisemitism, and anti-Black racism.
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No. The tour curriculum is a resource separate from the ISJL’s religious school curriculum.
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You do! Southern & Jewish On the Road is a self-organized, self-guided tour experience. The curriculum, however, gives you all the resources you need to create the itinerary of a lifetime. Each curriculum unit includes a short travel guide complete with recommendations for historic sites, hotels, restaurants, recreational sites, service project partners and more.
