I am privileged and humbled to make my story, Reach for the Stars, A Little Torah’s Journey, available and hope that children, parents and teachers will find it meaningful. The publisher, Pitspopany Press, is no longer in business and the rights to the story have come back to me. The book was…
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New Songs for Tu B’Shevat
Tu B’Shevat I hope you enjoy these original Tu B’Shevat songs. I wrote these songs for children, parents and teachers to use when they celebrate and learn about the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, the “birthday for the trees”. Hag Sameach, Sylvia Tu B’Shevat is Here (The…
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NEW HANUKKAH SONGS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
I hope you enjoy these original Hanukkah songs. I am pleased to share them with children, parents and teachers as they celebrate and learn about Hanukkah. Hag Sameach, Sylvia Happy Hanukkah (“The Wheels on the Bus”) Menorah candles burning bright, burning bright burning bright, Menorah candles burning bright, HAPPY HANUKKAH!…
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But, You Promised!
“Parents use promises for a variety of reasons—to bribe their child into doing what they want, to avoid a possible confrontation with their child, to spare their child from disappointment, to create hope in their child,” I wrote in an article for Glo online magazine in 2013. “But children are…
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Yosef’s Dream is “a beautiful mix of history, religion, culture, and the power of dreams.”
Review of Yosef’s Dream “My people had lived in Ethiopia for thousands of years, but were still seen as strangers, for we were Jewish.” Yosef and his family reside in Ethiopia, part of a historically isolated and repressed Jewish culture. The author fluidly juxtaposes the Ethiopian landscape and heritage alongside…
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Passover Greetings 2016
Three Green Frogs A Holiday Song by Sylvia Rouss Sing to the tune of “Three Blind Mice” Three green frogs, three green frogs. See how they jump. See how they jump. They all jumped after the Pharaoh one day. He said, “I’m not in the mood to play!” “Won’t you…
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