A balanced, factual and culturally sensitive examination of Judaism for Key Stage 3 Religious Studies.

The Seeking Religion series has titles for each of the main world religions. It is a proven reliable and accessible resource for Key Stage 3 Religious Education.

Each title has concise easy-to-understand narrative and a wide range of questions and activities to stimulate discussions in order to learn from and about religion.

The Jewish Experience helps pupils to:
- gain an understanding about Judaism: how it originated, its key beliefs and practices and its responses to different issues
- learn from Judaism, and reflect on their own beliefs and values.

This book is part of a book series called Seeking Religion .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Hodder Education .

Kevin O'Donnell was formerly a teacher of RE but is now ordained minister in the Church of England and works in the Diocese of Chichester. He has written numerous books in the Seeking Religion series and in the New Approach series for GCSE.

This book has the following chapters:

• : 1 Who are the Jews?
• : 2 How Judaism began
• : 3 Jewish Holy Books
• : 4 What Jews Believe
• : 5 At the Synagogue
• : 6 Orthodox and Reform Jews
• : 7 Jewish Family Life
• : 8 Shabbat
• : 9 The Life Cycle: Birth to Bar Mitzvah
• : 10 The Life Cycle: Marriage and Death
• : 11 Rabbis
• : 12 Festivals: The Seasonal Cycle
• : 13 Other festivals
• : 14 Young People and Judaism
• : 15 Judaism in Britain
• : 16 Through Troubled Times.
• : 17 . To the Promised Land.
• : 18 Judaism in other countries
• : 19 Judaism's Gifts to the World