Sammy Spider with two of his favorite people, Harold Grinspoon, the founder of PJ Library and Amy Bergman, Director Jewish Family Life of the Lorraine & Jack N. Friedman Commission for Jewish Education, West Palm Beach Florida at the PJ Library Conference at the Pearlstone Center in Baltimore Md. …
Read MoreSammy Spider’s Jewish Calendar 5773
Spend the year with Sammy Spider! Sammy Spider’s Jewish Calendar has ideas and activities to keep you busy all year long! Perfect for classrooms, children’s rooms and organizing the busy family’s schedule
Read MoreSammy Spider’s Tour of the Greater Palm Beaches in February 2012
Sammy Spider, the character from the beloved PJ Library books of the same name, is touring the greater Palm Beaches, visiting Jewish preschools and kindergarten classes at the Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy, helping children explore colors, numbers and Jewish holidays. The four-foot stuffed animal was developed at t he…
Read MoreTu B’Shevat for Children and their Parents
Tu B’Shevat (Background for parents by Sylvia Rouss) Tu B’Shevat, which literally means the 15th of the month of Shevat, celebrates the new year or birthday of the trees. In the secular calendar, the holiday occurs sometime between the end of January and the beginning of February. This holiday is…
Read MoreSO MANY NEW FRIENDS!
Last week I had so much fun visiting all my new friends at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, New Jersey, at the Central Synagogue in New York City and at the Cooperman JCC in West Orange, New Jersey. We celebrated Hanukkah with Sammy Spider and the…
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