Birkat Chaverim
Had to share this - I thought this was a cool idea: In case you can't read Hebrew the text printed on the eggs say: "Advertise with eggs sig.co.il." I think its such a fun idea. Around Holiday times it would be especially useful, given the number of eggs used goes way up. This also opens all types of possibilities of uses for eggs. For instance, ...
Its almost Rosh Hashana which mean Yom Kippur and Sukkot are around the corner and therefore Tal season is finishing up. That is, soon we'll be switching from the Tal/dew prayer request to the Geshem/rain prayer in the Shemonah Esreh prayer.) I wanted to share an idea and activities that came out of something that happened on Pesach/Passover. Someone ...
I am privileged to be able to offer you a guest post by Haifa artist Tamar Messer. Tamar's work includes prints, mosaic, 3d "found" sculptural works as well as books, invitations and Ketubbot. This post focuses on Tamar's Eicha/Lamentations but I highly urge you to go to her website to see her other work too. As Tamar will explain, the Lamenta ...
A quick update about a new kotel cover design for the Bnei Akiva bencher. Given Yom Yerushalayim, posting about our new kotel bencher cover is timely. A while back we had an order for a Bar Mitzvah featuring the Bar Mitzvah boy putting on his tefillin at the Kotel. We obviously can't offer to provide covers like that, for that you'll have to make you ...
Last year there were a few things my daughter did in gan which I rather enjoyed related to Yom Yerushalayim and they are easy to replicate: Counting Jerusalem stone They had a felt board, a large number of Jerusalem stone pictures (laminated and with aplix on the back) as well as number pictures. Match the number of stones to the number. Using dif ...
It is quite common around here to wear blue and white for Yom Haatzmaut. My daughter would love to add these Israeli flags nail decorations to that custom. In case that isn't clear the flags are decorations, decals to put on the nails. If you are interested in decorating nails with actual nail polish. Midrash Manicures also has a tutorial about how ...
In honor of Yom Haatzmaut I'm sharing Ita Aber's "El Al First Class" which was part of the World of Beads 7 Exhibition (Thanks for permission Ita!) I think its a fun use of those shoe horns you sometimes get and definitely blue. No link to a website, but if you'd like to be in touch with Ita please do email me or post a comment and I will put you in tou ...
Revolution, boycott, flotilla- however you'd like to call it. Lots of unrest in lots of local countries (to put it lightly). Here there's a cottage cheese boycott started on facebook due to extreme rise in prices. The local makolet owner mentioned that he had not reordered any cottage cheese all week and that whatever is currently there, has not sold. ...
In honor of Yom Yerushalayim I wanted to put together resources on Rabbi Aryeh Levin, the prisoner's rabbi and one of the first people who were brought to the Kotel in '67. He was a very special man, respected for his humility, care of others, charity, treatment of others, how he valued others and his lack of concern or need for respect from others. ...
In honor of Yom Haatzmaut- a game for the younger set. Use die to roll various parts and take the opportunity to teach about the first prime minister of Israel. I purposely left it vague since you'll know more whether your child/ren should get a more comprehensive overview or just become familiar with name/face. To download game: Build Ben Gurion ...