Birkat Chaverim
The Mitzvot Unplugged Series has to do with teaching kids Jewish values in a creative way. One of the ways of doing that is through music. I want to thank Julian/Chaim Horowitz from the Maccabeats for agreeing to an interview, as part of this series. How does being representatives of Orthodoxy and the concept of Torah uMadda come out in your song ...
Teaching our kids Jewish values also is about contributing to the community. I'm happy to have a guest post by Daniel Rothner, director of Areyvut as part of the Mitzvot Unplugged series to talk about some of Areyvut's creative projects, including Mitzvah Clowning. Jewish Values to Action Areyvut believes in turning Jewish values from abstract ideas i ...
As part of the Mitzvot Unplugged Series, we are happy to have a guest post by Ilana Masri from JewishHomeschoolNYC.blogspot.com. As a homeschooling family, we feel privileged that we have a seemingly endless amount of hours each day to focus on our children's character development. We address Jewish values in a twofold manner. We use the weekly par ...
I'm very pleased to welcome you to the first ever Mitzvot Unplugged Series. The series developed as a conversation in my head and then with my kids. As my children get older I think more and more about how to inspire and develop their own desire to be good people, love of Torah and desire to do mitzvot. I know that much of that is role modeling and work ...
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 ...
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 really think this Parking Meters idea is a neat idea, although I also wonder how practical it is. Various cities in the United States and Canada have re-purposed parking meters to be basically large tzedakah boxes or charity collection facilities, in the middle of urban areas. That is, neat receptacles to collect coin donations from passersby. ParcoD ...
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. ...
In addition to the bencher project, here is yet another way to help Bnei Akiva avoid financial ruin and support Bnei Akiva international programs (if you've missed my previous post on this subject and therefore the reference, see "Financial Ruin" and the Bnei Akiva Bencher project.) In honor of Bnei Akiva's 80th anniversary, Bnei Akiva is partnering wit ...