Birkat Chaverim
This is a quick heads up about the Global Day of Jewish Learning which will take place November 18th. This year the topic is blessings and gratitude. Many communities around the world will be taking part and it should be interesting. Take a few minutes to go to their site and register to access their materials. I'll write more about this in another post ...
Yep, Hanukkah is getting closer and closer and we are starting to think about what that means. Lately I have middot on the brain and this is a little post on that topic. Children often receive "gelt"/money for Hanukkah. This is an opportunity to discuss with them opportunity to give to others. American Jewish World Services has put together a tzedaka ...
Do you pin? Do you pin about Jewish education or crafts? I've set up a collaborative pin board for Jewish education, crafts and the like. If you are interested in joining, leave a comment here or on the facebook page or on pinterest. I have asked that people only pin things for which they have permission. This means either your own content, content b ...
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 ...
You may or may not know that through September the Israeli electric company is having a "contest" to get people to use less electricity. The basic idea is that people will get a discount on reduced usage between 10-30%. Why the 30% cutoff? Probably to make sure people are actually still in the apartment and using electricity in a regular way. We are ...
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about new things at the bookswap, which I have previously posted about here. Thanks to a user, (Thanks L.F.!) we now have a new bookcase and a slew of new books. Pesach cleaning also seemed to result in a whole bunch of new books. The bookswap now has more than 500! books and magazines in English, Hebrew, German ...
This is useful tool for anyone learning to read/lain Torah, Haftorah & Megillah. Pocket Torah is a free mobile (iphone, ipod, ipad and android) and desktop application that reads a pasuk/Torah verse selected, with appropriate cantilation/trop. It includes text and translation, audio, tikkun view (app), and commentary (app.) To download Pocket Tora ...
I recently mentioned the Accordion books we made. In the post I mention templates but I didn't give the links. Here are the links! These are set up for A4 paper and I have them for English, Hebrew and German. Basically you fold them in half for two stories. One side only has two panels for a story because you are meant to glue the other two (as labeled) ...
Itim has put together a number of popular texts that can be used when making wedding invitations and logo designs. You can also make use of Mechon Mamre, which has texts with and without nikud, which is useful when creating designs.
Wouldn't these be great for Purim? These are producted by Oeuf and handmade in Bolivia and are fair trade crafts. You can read more about the masks and Oeuf's Bolivian project on their website. Thank you Sophie Demenge, from Oeuf for permission to use the image above. Other fun animal masks are these felt masks made by Elsie Marley. Image Copyrigh ...