Birkat Chaverim
My daughter, aged seven, decided to add her own question to her homework this week. And so, she wrote in her notebook: What are the names of Jerusalem? I liked her question and asked her to see how many names she could come up with. There are actually seventy. I think this is a fun activity or at least an educational activity that can be fun. What ...
This is an addendum to A View from the American Guild of Judaic Art’s Mentor Program, Flora Rosefsky's post about mentoring in the American Guild of Judaic Art program. For background, the American Guild of Judaic Art's started a Judaic Visual Arts On-Line Mentoring Program. The program is open to students in grades 7-12. Flora Rosefsky spoke about m ...
Hi,
I teach Judaism and Israel-related subjects online. I have been involved in the Irena Sendler project for the past year and teach about it in my online Hebrew school classes.
Sendler was a non-Jewish Polish woman who saved 2500 children from the Warsaw ghetto. One of the most amazing aspects of her story is the fact that her activities were almost forgotten, and would never have been publicized if not for a group of (non-Jewish) Kansas schoolgirls who heard a rumor about her activities and, as part of a school project, investigated. Their research led to a renewed interest in Sendler’s story and wide recognition including a website, a book and a performance.
I’d love to write a guest blogpost about the Irena Sendler project for Birkat Chaverim.
laurie
Around Rosh Hashana my son and I made Holiday I Spy layouts. This is one of them. It may be of use pre-Pesach.
Review: Koren Ethiopian Haggada: The Journey to Freedom (Hebrew/English Edition) ed. Rabbi Menachem Waldman Trans. Binyamin Shalom Koren Press Pesach is coming and we've already taken out all the Haggadot and begun to think about how to make the seder and the telling of the Pesach story meaningful both for ourselves and our kids. I was very happy to ...
We have a crazy addiction to the Magic School Bus books around here. Besides having our own, we have taken out every small fry one in the local library and are working our way through the chapter books. In particular, we seem to migrate towards the books about microbes and the human body. I did this project with my almost three year old when we were ...
Have you seen Martha Stewarts visit to the Streit's Matzah factory? This is a fun view for children to get into the Passover season and start thinking about Passover. Chabad has a program where they come into day schools and make Matzah with the students. These matzahs are not actually kosher for Passover, however, the process is basically the process t ...
We received this cute Purim Bar Mitzvah invitation and I got permission to share it here: I laughed when I opened it up. Loved the idea of using a mirror to reflect the text for "Venahafoch Hu." Don't forget that we have Purim bencher covers for family smachot.
As Purim is getting closer thought I'd share what we did last year. Last year we dressed up like Disney characters and did a Disney Mishloach Manot tie in. I generally like Mishloach Manot that are light and that cost less than what we would spend on Matanot L'Aevyonim (the mitzvah of a gift to the poor for making a Purim meal.) Also something that the ...
We did this in honor of Tu B'shvat. We had bought a few small cactii and also had some succulents growing here and there, as well as 30 year old pots filled with soil but no plants. Together we dug holes, transferred the plants, watered the soil and then added rocks on top for interest and to keep the water in longer. Almost three year old liked choo ...