How Montana teachers use a Hanukkah kit to teach students who've never met a Jew

How Montana teachers use a Hanukkah kit to teach students who've never met a Jew

In Montana, students across the state — from Hutterite colonies to Native American reservations — are learning about Hanukkah in school: playing dreidel, lighting candles, and reading a picture book that tells the true story of Billings residents who united against antisemitism. That’s thanks to the Montana Jewish Project, which is in its third year of distributing 50 “Hanukkah curriculum boxes” to public school teachers around the state, many i…