Birkat Chaverim
For years I have really wanted to make dreidel crayons. So imagine how excited I was to find an old silicon dreidel mold at the local Emunah "white elephant" sale. It was a shekel or so. We also snagged a boat silicon molds and I told my kids that we were going to make crayons and such out of them. Only we took our time about it. Then, when we wer ...
I wanted to create a list of Jewish content collaborative pinterest boards. Why? Outside of this blog, I also do community building and web design for non-profits and artists, with a particular focus on Pinterest. For many of them, having access to collaborative boards with an audience interested in Jewish themes is important. In particular, for those b ...
I had a bit of an ironic laugh at this and I thought I would share. Several years ago I downloaded some coloring sheets from chinuch.org. Last week I printed some of them out for my son to color. Some of the coloring sheets I doubled up on one page to save paper. My daughter saw the coloring sheets and wanted to color them as well, so she did. I noti ...
We put together some of the digital Hanukkah cupcake wrappers and toppers (to the great delight of my kids who got to help assemble and eat some of the cupcakes.) They are two designs- one has a "shamash" on the topper with Hanukkah Sameach in Hebrew, and one has the shamash on the wrapper and "Happy Hanukkah" in English. The orange colored version ...
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 ...
This post is intended as extra material for an article I wrote with my mom for the winter CCAR journal. This is a special issue entitled "Inspiration and Opportunity: The Arts and Jewish Life." It is chock full of interesting articles. I have been slowly reading the other contributions and learning new things. Our Article is entitled: A Gift to the Com ...
We are still playing dreidel tag. Our home made origami version did not come out so well (toddler ate it,) but we do have a few others to show. One of these(upper right corner) has been featured here before, but I still love it. I love how kids mix colors together to make such bold, bright artwork. My daughter made another one this year (lower row t ...
On the first day of Hanukkah, due to a virus, we split up and I stayed with one ill child and my spouse took another child to be with family. I sent the camera and said "Come back with pictures of the origami dreidels!" About half an hour later I got a phone call: Spouse:"What did you want me to photograph?" Me: "The origami dreidels." Spouse ( ...
Aren't these origami dreidels neat? I did not make these origami dreidels. My brother in law picked them up at shul/synagogue. As far as I understood the story, there is a teacher/rebbe in the neighborhood, whose students were fooling around with origami in class. He said they could only do so if they could figure out how to make an origami dreidel/sevi ...
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 ...