I will also be at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey 07670 on Friday December 9 and the Central Synagogue,652 Lexington Avenue at 55th Street, New York City for Tot Shabbat on Saturday December 10.
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Sammy Spider Gets His Hebrew Name
Sammy Spider, a huge stuffed animal and the subject of several Jewish children’s books, spent the month visiting the preschool. “Sammy’s mother told Sammy that spiders spin webs, they do not get a Hebrew name,” Rabbi Bernstein said. But at Temple Torah, “Where every living creature — even stuffed ones…
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Background on Simchat Torah for Parents Researched and written by Sylvia Rouss Simchat Torah immediately follows Sukkot. Throughout the year the Torah scroll is unrolled and read in the synagogue. The reading begins with Genesis and the story of creation and continues with Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and finally, Deuteronomy.…
Read MoreThoughts as the school year ends
I have visited preschools throughout the country, in synagogues and JCC’s. I am struck by the fact that often as I enter a classroom I cannot tell if it is a Jewish classroom or its secular counterpart. One school I visited had a small cardboard shoebox that held some Shabbat…
Read MorePrizes and recipes
A Shavuot Blintz Souffle and a Chance to Win Sammy Spider’s First Shavuot Who wants to Win an autographed copy of award winning author Sylvia Rouss’s Sammy Spider’s First Shavuot?
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With my granddaughter on a sunny day. Photo by Alexis Jonnson.
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