Reviewing Rav Mitch Heifetz z"l and Michael Toben's HaKol Baseder Haggadah Kit has brought back memories from my adolesence, time at TVI and various Bnei Akiva functions. I was not particularly close to Rav Mitch z"l, I was a fairly introverted, quite kid in large groups (which is where I met him), but I did admire him. Rav Mitch was the rav machan ...
Kosher For Passover homemade playdough
Playdough is usually made out of flour, which obviously is not ok for use on Passover. I have seen alternative gluten free recipes with rice flour or corn flour. What I hadn't seen was potato flour, a main staple on Passover (especially if you are of Ashkenazi decent.) We had reason to make some homemade playdough so this is what we came up with: ...
Egg ads
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, ...
Lighting of the Beacons- a Rosh Chodesh Post
Last Sukkot I had the opportunity to discuss with my daughter the concept of Rosh Chodesh, lighting of the beacons and the beginning of the month in the Jewish calendar. We got to the topic in a round about way- we had several young women from the US and UK who are learning in seminary for the year, staying with us for the first day(s) of sukkot. They w ...
Tal season is wrapping up
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 ...
Marbleized Paper Accordion Book
I've mentioned our round robin art class where my 5 year old and a few of her friends meet up once a week to do art projects. We've done aprons and hair things like these and the other moms have done pencil holder, modge podged plate, fimo barrettes with draidels and menorahs, tzedaka box, puppets, "stain glass" and bakers dough projects. Our last effor ...
Seder Extras
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 ...
Matzah factory
My daughter made matzah in gan, but before that we made matzah for gan. We made three felt matzahs and put them in a handy carry bag. She made a cover for the matzot as well. I thought about making a breakable middle matzah (or foldable one) but that's for a different project.
From Purim to Pesach
Starting to switch gears from Purim... to Pesach!