The idea of building the kotel or Beit Hamikdash out of Marshmallows is not the most original idea in the world. However, we did do a few additions that were fun, and you can too. Food Coloring Glorious Good Coloring First off, for our marshmallow kotel, we used food coloring to add a stone-like touch to the "bricks." We also used leaf shaped sprinkle ...
What Color was the Menorah on the Arch of Titus?
The depiction of the Romans bringing the spoils of war, including the Temple Menorah and its vessels to Rome, on the Arch of Titus is a depiction that for many Jews symbolizes the loss of the Beit Hamikdash and of exile in their minds eye and in their hearts. This arch celebrated Titus's victory over the Jews, the destruction of Jerusalem and the holy ...
Teaching Pirkei Avot
As part of the Mitzvot Unplugged series we are happy to welcome Jennifer from Adventures in MamaLand. She will be talking about teaching Pirkei Avot. It’s spring… time to learn Pirkei Avot! Traditionally, that’s every Shabbat afternoon between Pesach and Shavuot, one of six chapters per week. Many people keep going until Rosh Hashanah, but that’s ge ...
The Living Torah
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 ...
Cupcake Wrappers for Celebrations
Remember the Purim cupcake wrappers? Just wanted to let you all know that they've been joined by a bunch of new wrapper designs. This time, these designs match with some of our bencher designs. That means they could be used in conjunction with a bencher order, or alone at a family celebration. Note the Kotel design is particularly useful for Yom Yerusha ...
Summing up the cultural exchange
I wanted to show what was included in the kids cultural exchange packages that we sent out to represent Israel: stickers coloring sheets and coloring book a keychain that looks like Israeli money halva, zaatar, "nana" tea and mekupelet chocolate postcards a coloring name sign that looks like a Jerusalem skyline that I designed. I made ...
Israel Kids Cultural Exchange About Food
This is part three of the Israel Kids Cultural Exchange about Food what was sent in the Israel Kids Cultural Exchange. You can read part one or part two here. This part was about food. As part of the Israel Kids Cultural Exchange about food we included recipes, a story, about favorite foods as well as some favorite Israeli samples that could be shipp ...
Israel Exchange Part 2 Things you may or may not know about Israel and Jerusalem
This is part two of the letter we sent for the kids Cultural Exchange -Israel. You can read about the cultural exchange and part one of our letter here. Israeli mailboxes. Do your local mailboxes look like this? Things you may or may not know about Israel and Jerusalem: Both national languages, Hebrew and Arabic, are read right to left not ...
Israel Cultural Exchange Part 1
Last summer I noticed that a blogger I enjoy reading, Chasing Cheerios, was organizing a kid cultural exchange. I always thought these sounded like fun and my daughter was rather into writing at the time, so I asked to join and also passed it on to some other locals who might be interested in doing something like that. I thought I would share what we se ...
An Approach to Holocaust Commemoration: Voices of the Generations
I'm happy to welcome a guest post about Voices of the Generations for Yom Hashoah from Marcia Reines Josephy, former curator and director of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, and longtime Holocaust educator. Disclosure: also close relative. Difficulty of Teaching Holocaust It is hard, oh so hard to teach about the Holocaust and genocide. It is hard ...