Birkat Chaverim
I wanted to give a heads up to an offer that some of you may be interested in. You may or may not know that outside of this site, my "other jobs" include web design and online community building. I have been doing community building for The Eden Center for the past several years. Eden focuses on improving the mikveh experience, women’s health and halac ...
Do you have or are you an artistic junior or high school student who is interested in creating Judaic art? The American Guild of Judaic Artists has started an interesting new project: The Judaic Visual Arts On-Line Mentoring Program. This program is open to students all over the world in grades 7-12. Students interested in creating Judaic art will be ...
This is a quick heads up about the Global Day of Jewish Learning which will take place November 18th. This year the topic is blessings and gratitude. Many communities around the world will be taking part and it should be interesting. Take a few minutes to go to their site and register to access their materials. I'll write more about this in another post ...
I have lately been thinking about teaching values or rather the how of teaching values. Values are obviously relayed through actions but sometimes the nitty-gritty of every day life, the stresses of clothing, feeding and paying bills, extreme exhaustion which comes with family life, makes taking the time to talk about values difficult. It is true that v ...
Being part of a community means helping out when people need help. Helping out can mean offering to pick up children from school, running errands, making phone calls and preparing meals. Organized Jewish home has a nice series about chesed meals so I don't need to add much here, but I will reiterate- if you want to be helpful by making a meal do make su ...
I've been working on this for the past few days and some of you Toronto readers may be interested in attending- Simi Peters will be giving a lecture on "Abraham Breaks the Idols Not for Children Only" July 14th and July 13-15th there will be Beit Midrash style learning focusing on Bilam and Bnei HaElohim. For more information email cfnishmat at gmail. ...
The title probably should be something like "Taking advantage of Melabev's book launch to talk about Bar and Bat Mitzvah activities." To give a brief overview- Melabev is a community center(s) for people with dementia. They have programs for early stage dementia patients to both have ongoing mental stimulation and provide respite for their families. ...
I like the idea of the Areyvut Bnai Mitzvah Video Essay contest and thought it would be relevant to some of the blog readers. I like the idea of turning family celebrations into meaningful experiences which give back to the community. A while back I requested readers to let us know how they made their family celebrations meaningful. I felt that it would ...
If you are looking for a neat activity to do for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah that has both an element of fun and mitzvah, why not try a clothing swap? Popular and Fun This idea, in general, has gained popularity due to the swap o rama rama type swaps where people bring clothing and then professional sewers, screen printers, embroiderers and others, voluntee ...