Learn To Speak and Chant the Havdalah Blessings and Perform the Saturday Evening Ritual Ceremony Stand outside on Saturday night awaiting the darkness and three stars to shine in the sky. It’s the moment Shabbat ends and Havdalah begins, the ceremony which separates (Havdalah means separation in Hebrew) the holy day from the rest of …
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Hebrew Review Ideas for Your Kids This Summer Repetition is key when learning how to read Hebrew and chant Bar and Bat Mitzvah blessings. If you don’t memorize the letters and vowels in the Hebrew alphabet, you simply will not be able to read Hebrew. During the school year when your child is attending religious …
Send Your Child to Any of These Jewish Summer Camps in California Jewish summer camps can make a tremendous impact on a child’s life because they aim to make Judaism fun by building a sense of community, connection, and adventure. And the good news is that there are a ton of Jewish summer camps in …
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Holocaust Videos and Film Resources for 5th – 9th Grades It is absolutely imperative that we teach about the horrors of the Holocaust, so that history does not repeat itself. It is a challenging subject to teach, especially to children. Middle school age children are old enough to understand what happened, but probably not quite …
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On the eighth day of a Jewish baby boy’s life, there is a special ceremony called a bris (brit milah in Hebrew) where the newborn boy is circumcised by a mohel – a person trained in performing ritual Jewish circumcisions. Following the ceremony, a feast or luncheon is held in celebration of this important day. …
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Manischewitz vs. Streits vs. Yehuda Matzo Matzo is just matzo, right? It’s that cardboard-like cracker that we eat for one week a year that leaves crumbs everywhere. It seems every family has their favorite brand, mostly a tossup between Yehuda, Streits or Manischewitz. But matzo has had a revival of sorts in recent years, you …
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Celebrate Shabbat In Style with Virtual Shabbat Backgrounds It’s been quite a change watching Shabbat services virtually over the past year. But, one thing we have all learned is that you don’t always need a physical sanctuary to bring sanctuary to people. I personally have greatly enjoyed not only watching my own synagogue’s weekly services, …
Kate Spade Seder Plate: The Perfect Passover Centerpiece Passover is not only a major Jewish holiday, but it’s quite a social one at that. You invite your friends and family over for seder, but you are also commanded to welcome the stranger, for we were once strangers in the land of Egypt. Consequently, if you …
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Shabbat Table Setting Preparation Checklist On Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, we recount God’s rest following six days of creation and we observe this time by resting ourselves. It’s a time in which we take a conscious break from the routines of everyday life, eat a festive meal around the Shabbat table, and reconnect with family …
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That’s a Lot of Names for One Mitzvah Ceremony! Bar Mitzvah. Bat Mitzvah. B’nai Mitzvah. B’not Mitzvah. There are a lot of terms used to describe the ceremony in which a child comes of age and observes the 613 mitzvot or commandments in the Torah. While you would be considered a preteen or teenager in …
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