From a recent PJ Library post: A BELOVED JEWISH SPIDER is making two appearances on PJ Library book selections list: Sammy Spider’s First Book of Jewish Holidays and Sammy Spider’s First Yom Kippur. Both books are written by Sylvia Rouss and illustrated by Katherine Janus Kahn. For author Sylvia Rouss, it wasn’t…
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Passover Learning Games for Young Children
Matching Game Color and cut out the Passover symbols. Glue into a file folder. Color and cut out a second set of symbols and glue to construction paper. Laminate. Have children match the symbol cards to the cards in the file folder. Variation: enlarge one set of symbols and have…
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Passover Recipes for Young Children and their Parents
MATZAH PIZZA 1 matzah square per pizza 2 Tbsp. tomato or pizza sauce 4 Tbsp. shredded mozzarella cheese Prepare the matzah square by spooning on the sauce and adding the cheese. Place on a foil covered baking sheet and bake at 400 for 5-10 minutes, until cheese melts. MOCK OATMEAL…
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Celebrating Simchat Torah Just Like Sammy Spider
I just received this letter from a friend of Sammy Spider. It made my day and hopefully it will brighten yours too. As a school librarian at a Jewish Day School, I so enjoyed sharing your books with my students. Now retired, I am still enjoying your books, but now…
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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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Why We are Voting for Hillary Clinton
In the winter of 2008, our family discussed Presidential candidates with the same passion we see today, but without the acrimony marring this year’s primaries. Our children, then 20-somethings, were supporting Senator Barack Obama, while my husband and I supported Senator Hillary Clinton. When the primaries ended, we switched our allegiance to Senator…
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