Birkat Chaverim
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 ...
I had to share this idea organized by my cousin Shmuel, rabbi of Congregation Ohev Shalom, and his shul. In honor of the 100 birthday of one of his congregants, Anna Yuter, the synagogue organized a "drive" in January. What was unusual about the drive was it asked members to do an act of chesed or kindness. The synagogue then collected the acts into a b ...
I mentioned on the facebook page that I have been working on something and I'm excited to share it now. Purim character cupcake wrappers! These are downloadable files which can be printed on your inkjet printer or by sending them to your local print shop for printing. Then you cut them out and use them to wrap cupcakes. Each file has wrappers for Ham ...
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 ...
Because we host the Bnei Akiva bencher project, we like to post from time to time post information, ideas or resources that help families planning a simcha. So here's another one. A recent post on A Mother in Israel, Inspiring Projects for Your Child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah is a useful one. Ideas from A Mother in Israel First there are some self reflect ...
If you have a wedding planned and have an outside chuppah here are a few simple ideas if you have the time/inclination. 1. Umbrellas- to keep guests somewhat shaded. These can be pretty paper umbrellas or white rain umbrellas decorated or undecorated. They would be fun to decorate with family members with gold/silver pens, flowers, lace etc. 2. I ...
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 ...
As you know I like to post resources for family smachot. ...
Ok maybe not in the soup but we did also doanimal crackers. My nephew's bar mitzvah is this shabbat and the weeks parsha is Noach. Part of celebrating includes throwing candies (depending on the exact custom somewhere around the Bar Mitzvah boy's aliyah to the Torah) and a kiddush. I asked my sister-in-law whether she wanted me to look for animal candies, and she liked the idea, but of course I couldn't find any except gummy worms and gummy bears and it seemed to me that that wouldn't quite cut it. First I thought of doing a variation on animal cake pops (such as these cute lambs by Bakerella) using a non-dairy recipe and chocolate instead of candy melts because of the convenience factor. However, the weather where the Bar Mitzvah will be is hot! and all that chocolate likely would end up on nice white shabbat shirts and fancy dresses given the under 5 set tendency to wipe hands on their parents rather than on napkins.
Instead ...