[quote text_size=”small” author=”From Fun With Jewish Holiday Rhymes by Sylvia Rouss, UAHC Press, 1992″] Rosh Hashanah will soon be here. It’s the beginning of the year.We go to temple and listen to the shofar’s sound. We eat a special challah –its shape is round.We eat apples dipped in honey sweet. They…
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A WORLD OF BLESSINGS & CHERISHED MEMORIES are ON SALE
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Thoughts on the Pew Report by a Jewish Children’s Author
As a young child, I was charmed by All of a Kind Family, amused by the stories of Chelm and captivated by the Diary of Ann Frank. As a teenager, I was intrigued by Exodus and O Jerusalem. And as an adult, I finally read The Mouse in the Matzah…
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Creating a Safer World for Our Children, re-posted from December 2012
My youngest child went to college at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and last week’s horrible incident “bore a frightening similarity to an attack” that occurred in 2001 when he was a student. Coupled with my own experience in the summer of 1999, it was a difficult…
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Sammy Spider’s First Mitzvah
Available this summer from Kar-Ben, Sammy Spider learns about the mitzvah of visiting the sick. “Achoo!” Uh-oh, Josh has a cold, and when his friend Moti delivers some chicken soup, Sammy asks, “Mother, may I have some chicken soup too?” Can you guess what Mrs. Spider answered?
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A Baht Brit Naming Ceremony
The birth of my fourth grandchild, a girl, gave our family the opportunity to repeat a naming ceremony we first used almost 37 years ago when our second daughter was born. Influenced by the 60’s “do it yourself” The First Jewish Catalog and not yet members of a congregation, my husband…
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