Educational Resources on Chocolate, Fair Trade & Child Labor

Jewish Text Study

• What’s Jewish about Fair Trade? is a one page sheet introducing Jewish values associated with Fair Trade and text sources
• Matrix matching Fair Trade principles with Jewish Values and Text is a comprehensive 2-page piece, perfect for text and chevrutah study
• Fair Trade, Human Rights and Jewish Text Sources was developed for T’ruah’s Human Rights Shabbat 2011, and identifies specific articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with Jewish text sources, and a primer on chevrutah study
• Fair Trade Teshuva, the first Rabbinic teshuva on “Does Jewish law require us to buy produce which is certified as being fairly traded, when it is available” by Rabbi Devorah Silver

Issue of Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry

• Fact sheet on Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry
• “Dark Side of Chocolate” DVD and Screening kit (for ages 12+)
• Resources to Learn More 
• A Kavanah for Eating Chanukah Gelt

School Curricula on Fair Trade and Judaism

• A Jewish Perspective on Fair Trade – Equal Exchange Curriculum
• Spinning the Dreidel for Chocolate Gelt – Hazon, in partnership with Hillel at the UW, The Kavana Cooperative, and Fair Trade Judaica