Itim has put together a number of popular texts that can be used when making wedding invitations and logo designs. You can also make use of Mechon Mamre, which has texts with and without nikud, which is useful when creating designs.
Event ideas for when it is hot
If you have a wedding planned and have an outside chuppah here are a few simple ideas if you have the time/inclination. 1. Umbrellas- to keep guests somewhat shaded. These can be pretty paper umbrellas or white rain umbrellas decorated or undecorated. They would be fun to decorate with family members with gold/silver pens, flowers, lace etc. 2. I ...
Sheva Brachot Ideas
A while back I asked on the Birkat Chaverim facebook page for ideas of activities to do at Sheva Brachot. Here are some of the responses I got, along with others I collected. Play the "newly-wed game" Create a picture together with attendees (only a good idea if there is some guiding along the way because otherwise the couple will never hang it u ...
Hair Covering Scarves and a request
Since this site deals with Jewish celebrations which include weddings, and since hair covering is a thing for many Jewish women after they get married, I thought I would post some a few resources about that topic. There are a billion different ways to cover ones hair, and of course everyone has their own opinion about what is better and whats more co ...
Yom Haatzmaut Hebrew Letter… chalk
This is a chalk project for Yom Haatzmaut. The connection being Hebrew letters, blue and white letters, as well as a useful activity when you are out in the park bbq-ing. We have found these to be useful when we go to the park with friends. How We Did It Here's an example of blue and white packaged chalk (Mem and Tet for Mazal Tov Medinat Yisrael ...
Mishloach Manot Ideas
We should be making these, and we are in the middle but i thought i'd post these before Purim finishes inside and outside walled cities- We were inspired by this idea for edible crayons to make edible crayons and erasers as our two foods for mishloach manot. Our erasers are apricots but it would be easier to use hershey mini chocolates. Pretzels are ...
Shma Party
Sorry about the slow pace of posts- consider it a mini maternity leave. In honor of the birth of our son I am posting about something we did which might be fun for other families. There is a custom that some practice to have children say shma with the new baby the night before the brit. Typically called Vach Nacht (watch night-Ashkenazim) or Brit Yitzch ...
Bar & Bat Mitzvah resources
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No Noah but lots of animal crackers in the soup
Ok maybe not in the soup but we did also doanimal crackers. My nephew's bar mitzvah is this shabbat and the weeks parsha is Noach. Part of celebrating includes throwing candies (depending on the exact custom somewhere around the Bar Mitzvah boy's aliyah to the Torah) and a kiddush. I asked my sister-in-law whether she wanted me to look for animal candies, and she liked the idea, but of course I couldn't find any except gummy worms and gummy bears and it seemed to me that that wouldn't quite cut it. First I thought of doing a variation on animal cake pops (such as these cute lambs by Bakerella) using a non-dairy recipe and chocolate instead of candy melts because of the convenience factor. However, the weather where the Bar Mitzvah will be is hot! and all that chocolate likely would end up on nice white shabbat shirts and fancy dresses given the under 5 set tendency to wipe hands on their parents rather than on napkins.
Instead ...