Birkat Chaverim
The cookie falafel are based on tacos using vanilla oreos. When I saw the tacos I thought that they could easily convert to falafels, which are a popular food for Yom Haatzmaut. While I have never seen vanilla oreos where I live, I have seen vanilla sandwich cookies and figured that I would use those when I got around to making them. Shopping W ...
Recently I bought buns for my kids to make lunches. Opening the packages I immediately thought "Blue and White sandwiches!" Not because there was any blue coloring, although I am not against blue food coloring. We have, in fact, used it in the past for blue and white food when we made blue and white Cornettos for Yom Haatzmaut a few years ago. These ar ...
This year Israel is celebrating 70 years as a country. In honor of Israel’s 70th birthday I would like to share a variety of cacti projects, really sabra projects and party ideas. In general, cacti are a popular icon in Israel, particularly the fruit of the Opuntia ficus-indica, or sabra fruit. Israelis are often compared to the fruit, because the fruit ...
Did you notice that in the summer the prayer for the IDF, Mi Sheberach for Tzahal was changed? In July Rav Rami Barchiyahu, the rabbi of the Israel police services, received permission from the chief rabbis of Israel to update the prayer. The update now includes a prayer for police, that is praying for the members of the police force. History ...
The Lookstein Center’s 70 challenges for 70 days launches this week. In honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary, Bar Ilan's Lookstein Center for Jewish Education has organized a creative daily game from now until Yom Haatzmaut. The games are appropriate for individuals, school groups or home schoolers. There are four grade levels of difficulty to the games. ...
We are alive with all the excitement of the 50 anniversary celebrations around here as well as just returning to some normalcy given all the street closures due to President Trump’s visit. Thank G-d for kind parents, although the school bus was canceled multiple times this week, my daughter still made it to school (and back too.) Crafting Jerusalem ...
Yesterday my daughter shared her Yom Haatzmaut pop up card project that she made in school. Today my son wanted to share his own school project- a marshmallow flag. His gan/kindergarten had a falafel day for Yom Haatzmaut. Each child received an identity card with picture and information about themselves, a flag and a cute map with stickers. About the ...
Presenting my daughter's Yom Haatzmaut Pop Up card design. My daughter's school emphasizes the contribution that each student can make in the school. One of the programs that they have created for this purpose is a "chanchut" or mentoring class once a month. Each month the older students get a story or theme to teach their first grade students. They al ...
My daughter made this Kotel pop-up card in her art class this year for Yom Yerushalayim. She agreed to share it here. In the scheme of pop-up cards, it is not all that complicated a pop-up card to make. This is basically a tab style pop-up card. You can see how to make these types of pop up cards in this WikiHow post. A Little Kit? She is considering ...