I wrote this blog when I was still teaching, and I think it’s worth looking at a second time: The school where I work has a policy that allows for the use of food in sensory experiences. One of our teachers recently asked one of our maintenance men to fill…
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Mitzvah the Mutt’s First Interview
I am thrilled to let you know that Mitzvah the Mutt has been chosen as a PJ Our Way selection! PJ Our Way is the newest chapter of PJ Library. PJ Our Way gives kids ages nine through eleven the opportunity to choose a book each month. This is Talya’s…
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Ways to celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur with Young Children
[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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