For you to enjoy with your children and students. Sukkot can be observed at home, at school and through virtual experiences. Here are three links to resources and continue scrolling down to two videos. What is your favorite fruit for the Sukkah? An apple? A watermelon? Sukkot Celebrations with Michael’s…
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4 New Children’s Books To Brighten Up The Jewish New Year (JTA)
In Sammy Spider’s First Book of Prayers, “young kids are introduced to daily prayers like the Shema for going to sleep, to blessings for Shabbat and special occasions. Each blessing, explained in lively rhyming verse from the point of view of the friendly Sammy Spider, is written in Hebrew, transliteration…
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Sammy Spider Videos Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
For you to enjoy with your children and students for remote learning during the holidays while we “social distance” to protect ourselves and others from the Covid 19 virus. Together, but apart!
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THE LITTLEST PAIR, activities and a video reading
The Littlest Pair won the National Jewish Book Award for Children’s Picture Books in 2001. Inspired by a rainy winter day on a visit to Jerusalem, I wrote The Littlest Pair, the story of the two termites who board Noah’s Ark, as a story of tolerance. My message is simple: everyone…
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Paul reads A WATERMELON IN THE SUKKAH
What happens when you want to hang your favorite fruit in your sukkah, but your favorite fruit happens to be a big, heavy, juicy watermelon? Even though the holiday of Sukkot is still months away, it’s the perfect season for a story about watermelon! Listen as Paul of PJ Library…
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Librarian Wendy of Temple Emanu-El brings you Storytime – YOSEF’S DREAM
This books tells the story of how 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were brought to Israel from Ethiopia in a time span of only 36 hours in 1991 as part of Operation Solomon. Yosef’s Dream is written by Sylvia Rouss with Israel’s Ambassador Asher Naim.
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