Birkat Chaverim
Since this site deals with Jewish celebrations which include weddings, and since hair covering is a thing for many Jewish women after they get married, I thought I would post some a few resources about that topic. There are a billion different ways to cover ones hair, and of course everyone has their own opinion about what is better and whats more co ...
Cheese glorious cheese... And butter. Dairy is associated with the holiday of Shavuot and making cheese and butter is not a very difficult project to do with children of all ages. This post includes a number of recipes for cheese as well as how tos based on our experiments with making butter and cream cheese. To Make butter: Take some cream and place ...
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. ...
This is a chalk project for Yom Haatzmaut. The connection being Hebrew letters, blue and white letters, as well as a useful activity when you are out in the park bbq-ing. We have found these to be useful when we go to the park with friends. How We Did It Here's an example of blue and white packaged chalk (Mem and Tet for Mazal Tov Medinat Yisrael ...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has created a (somewhat) new resource for middle and high school students called "Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now." It requires a parent or teacher to sign up to allow students to fully participate and experience the site. The site includes twelve stories of survivor ...
Here are a few ideas we're thinking about for the seder this year- crowns for everyone to wear to be like royalty buying a bunch of windup cars (non electric) and taping self with stuff to take out of Egypt to the car. Then have a race (who is fastest). We did a test run (see picture above- photo courtesy of my 4 year old.) Something with baby moshe ...
We should be making these, and we are in the middle but i thought i'd post these before Purim finishes inside and outside walled cities- We were inspired by this idea for edible crayons to make edible crayons and erasers as our two foods for mishloach manot. Our erasers are apricots but it would be easier to use hershey mini chocolates. Pretzels are ...
Sorry about the slow pace of posts- consider it a mini maternity leave. In honor of the birth of our son I am posting about something we did which might be fun for other families. There is a custom that some practice to have children say shma with the new baby the night before the brit. Typically called Vach Nacht (watch night-Ashkenazim) or Brit Yitzch ...
I've gotten slower on posts lately as I have mostly been working on bugs and requirements for website related work. Perhaps one time I'll post about some of that stuff. In the meantime, because we deal with family celebrations, today I just wanted to share some useful resources related to birth from a Jewish perspective. This is not a highly organized post but I hope some things will be useful.
Michelle Klein A Time to be Born JHOM Birth resources (online)
Raphael Patai "Jewish Birth Customs in On Jewish Folklore" (Wayne State University) 1983:337-443 ...