Birkat Chaverim
We are happy to have a guest post from Kol Haot as part of the Mitzvot Unplugged Series. A fuller version of this post appeared in the Lookstein Journal Jewish Educational Leadership: The Arts in Jewish Education A short note, although i have never participated in the series, many years ago I visited David Moss's Jerusalem studio with my parents and my ...
Remember the Purim cupcake wrappers? Just wanted to let you all know that they've been joined by a bunch of new wrapper designs. This time, these designs match with some of our bencher designs. That means they could be used in conjunction with a bencher order, or alone at a family celebration. Note the Kotel design is particularly useful for Yom Yerusha ...
I had to share this idea organized by my cousin Shmuel, rabbi of Congregation Ohev Shalom, and his shul. In honor of the 100 birthday of one of his congregants, Anna Yuter, the synagogue organized a "drive" in January. What was unusual about the drive was it asked members to do an act of chesed or kindness. The synagogue then collected the acts into a b ...
I mentioned on the facebook page that I have been working on something and I'm excited to share it now. Purim character cupcake wrappers! These are downloadable files which can be printed on your inkjet printer or by sending them to your local print shop for printing. Then you cut them out and use them to wrap cupcakes. Each file has wrappers for Ham ...
Background: Digital Printing for Benchers Off the Beaten Path As you may or may not know, we offer digital printing as one of the main options for covers for the Bnei Akiva bencher. Digital printing can give you quite a bit of freedom. You are only limited by size and your imagination. You can print all the way to the edge of the cover, with multiple co ...
This is useful tool for anyone learning to read/lain Torah, Haftorah & Megillah. Pocket Torah is a free mobile (iphone, ipod, ipad and android) and desktop application that reads a pasuk/Torah verse selected, with appropriate cantilation/trop. It includes text and translation, audio, tikkun view (app), and commentary (app.) To download Pocket Tora ...
Because we host the Bnei Akiva bencher project, we like to post from time to time post information, ideas or resources that help families planning a simcha. So here's another one. A recent post on A Mother in Israel, Inspiring Projects for Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a useful one. Ideas from A Mother in Israel First there are some self reflect ...
A quick project to add detail for Rosh Chodesh school outfits. Crochet flowers for Rosh Chodesh. This is actually a pin intended for pinning onto the required blue skirt for Rosh Chodesh. Some almost five year olds think that plain blue is not so pretty so now we've made a blue and pink flower pin to attach to solid blue skirts. However, the solid blue ...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has created a (somewhat) new resource for middle and high school students called "Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now." It requires a parent or teacher to sign up to allow students to fully participate and experience the site. The site includes twelve stories of survivor ...