I'm very pleased to be able to write about the first annual Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art (September 15 through October 31st.) This first year will have five exhibitions in five separate locations. This looks like it should be very exciting and interesting. There are about fifty artists, both Israeli and International, emerging and esta ...
Kid Made Marshmallow Kotel
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 ...
Teaching Jerusalem one footstep at a time
In honor of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem day, and as part of the Mitzvot Unplugged series, we are pleased to welcome, Joanna from FunInJerusalem.com, a website that helps families explore Jerusalem and its environs. Take a walk down the small alleyways of the Old City of Jerusalem and you may be wondering how you can experience such an Old City in a m ...
Tiny Ninja Theater’s M’amati (From When)
As part of the Mitzvot Unplugged series we are pleased to have Dov Weinstein, director of Tiny Ninja Theater, talk about a creative way of teaching gemara with Tiny Ninja Theater's M'amati. "Tiny Ninja Theater presents M'amati (From when?)" is an educational performance piece based around the opening Mishna in (tractate) Berachot. It uses everyd ...
Kol HaOt – Illuminating Jewish Life through Art
We are happy to have a guest post from Kol Haot as part of the Mitzvot Unplugged Series. A fuller version of this post appeared in the Lookstein Journal Jewish Educational Leadership: The Arts in Jewish Education A short note, although i have never participated in the series, many years ago I visited David Moss's Jerusalem studio with my parents and my ...
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 ...