A secular Jewish space for children

The Red Herring Club provides activities for children aged 5-12 on Jewish themes from a secular perspective. We are a group of parents who wanted our children to be involved in Jewish activities of a kind that we couldn't find elsewhere. If your children enjoy our sessions, we'd like you to get involved and help us in planning and running the activities.For details of forthcoming events please contact us. 

Aims

To imbue children with a sense of Jewish history, culture, and ethnicity from a secular perspective and within a broad progressive, internationalist framework.

Objectives

• To introduce Jewish culture in its widest sense. This includes the history and geography of the Jewish world, legends, folk tales, music, food, visual art, languages, clothes, traditions. It also includes some of the ideas of Jewish religious culture in a sympathetic manner but wholly from a secular perspective.
  
• To attempt to present material in an interesting and fun way, so that the activities of the Red Herring Club are age-appropriate and relevant to the children's lives.
  
• To present Jewish culture in a progressive, pluralist, inclusive framework. For example, using the history of Jews all over the world to help to foster multiculturalism and anti-racism and ensuring that material does not have a gender bias.
  
• To help children to relate to Jewishness in a way which ensures that they recognise that Jews are a unique people among many unique peoples.

The Red Herring Club is affiliated to and supported by the Jewish Socialists' Group.

Contact Information

Visit our website at: www.redherringclub.com/

You can contact us by telephone (it's a web-based voice mail system, so ignore the slightly robotic voice and impersonal message, it really is us), fax, or email. You can even send us an old-fashioned letter!

Telephone 0870 162 9244
Fax 0870 162 9244
Postal address The Red Herring Club, c/o BM 3725, London WC1N 3XX
Electronic mail Thebigfish@Redherringclub.com

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