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Birth related resources

January 27, 2011

I've gotten slower on posts lately as I have mostly been working on bugs and requirements for website related work. Perhaps one time I'll post about some of that stuff. In the meantime, because we deal with family celebrations, today I just wanted to share some useful resources related to birth from a Jewish perspective. This is not a highly organized post but I hope some things will be useful. Michelle Klein A Time to be Born JHOM Birth resources (online) Raphael Patai "Jewish Birth Customs in On Jewish Folklore" (Wayne State University) 1983:337-443 ...

Tu Bshvat Learning activities

January 9, 2011

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Here are just a few neat ideas for Tu Bshvat mostly for the younger set: Matzo Ball soup has an activity book for Tu Bshvat which is great for readers but also can be used for younger children with adaptation. Jennifer from RonyPony.blogspot.com as a nice Tu BShvat activity pack (things like patterning, matching fruit to trees, senses etc.) with the ...

Havdala candle and crayons

December 23, 2010

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Our havdala candle was in miserable shape. Difficult to light and low on wicks and wax. Given the great need for a new havdala candle, I thought my daughter would enjoy making crayons and a havdala candle this week. The lazy and recycling way. What we did For the havdala candle: We reused the old havdala candle and refilled it with melted wax an ...

Hanukkah crafts from gan and other sources

December 5, 2010

with No Comment Education Hanukkah Holidays Parsha Resources

I wanted to show some of the easy and fun Hanukkah crafts from gan, that my daughter brought home this year and last year. But I am going to start with a project which was supposed to make it to gan but didn't quite work out. Maybe we'll redo it on a smaller scale. Plastic Bag Draidel Basically I cut out a draidel from a plastic bag and ironed it on m ...

Stela of ‘Kharser’. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Charles E. Wilbour Archival Collection [9.4.004]

Famine in Egypt another cool Brooklyn museum post

November 28, 2010

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A few weeks ago I linked to a few posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus because of a parsha connection. This week there is another one. In Parshat Miketz there's the story of Pharoh's dreams and the seven year famine.The Brooklyn museum has a stela which talks of a seven year famine in Egypt. Although it seems that the stela is from a later perio ...

Update on Chayeii Sara craft

October 28, 2010

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Wanted to give an update on the Rivka/Eliezer/camel paper craft from the previous post. This was actually a very successful project. So much so that my daughter did not want to go to gan so she could finish it, was waiting to leave gan and raced home from a chug she ordinarily refuses to leave, in order to finish this project. The hair and clothing w ...

Eliezer’s camels

October 24, 2010

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In honor of the weekly Torah portion, Parshat Chayei Sara I'm linking to some paper toys to make to help create the story of Rivka and Eliezer and giving the camel's water. First a camel on The Toy Maker's site. This page has a camel and a giraffe and one could print it multiple times to make enough camels in the story. Next ...

Parshat Lech Lecha trip to Egypt

October 14, 2010

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I thought it would be neat to link to some posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus this week since in this week's parsha due to a famine Abraham and Sara end up in Egypt. Apparently there is very little written about the process of how Egyptians made Papyrus, and pictorial depictions don't really explain how the sheets were formed. The Brooklyn ...

El Nino, Israel and water

September 20, 2010

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We are just about at that time of year when we add back the prayer for rain to the amidah prayer and water is always a hot topic with regard to Israel so I wanted to talk about something completely different, and perhaps useful to some Bar/Bat Mitzvah child interested in doing a project related to water. In the 90's there was a research study which i ...

Travel games from other sources

July 1, 2010

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I haven't made these but they seem fun for traveling. The first two I stumbled across via The Crafty Crow, who did a fun set of posts about games from around the world. Korean Board game The post on crafty crow uses craft sticks, rocks and a drawn board game to make this, but I imagine that in a pinch one could find things to make this even while tra ...