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…
Read MoreVisit me in New York and New Jersey this Hanukkah
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…
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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