Coming Full Circle
Twelve years ago on a Yom Kippur afternoon, at the request of my rabbi, Steven Silver, I stood on the bimah...
Author: Kathy Bloomfield
Kids’ Books That Matter: Lashon Hara/Gossiping
We recently started getting People magazine as part of a “trade airline miles for subscriptions” deal. Because...
Kids’ Books that Matter: Remember the Days of Old – Zachor/Remembrance
We traveled fairly extensively with our kids when they were young. We took wide-ranging road trips throughout...
Best Children’s Passover Books: Expanding the Story of Passover
Passover is one of the best Jewish holidays for unleashing creative energy in a variety of ways. Millions of...
Tu Bishvat Children’s Books that Matter
When I was a girl, I spent many weekends at my grandmother’s house. She had a HUGE walnut tree in the center...
Kids’ Books that Matter: Give Graciously, Cheerfully & Sympathetically*: Nedivut/Generosity
*Moses Maimonides, aka RaMBaM (1135-1204)
When the Christmas candy was displayed next to the Halloween candy...
Kids’ Books that Matter: A November Dilemma: Hanukkah + Thanksgiving!
As if it were not difficult enough getting ready for Rosh Hashanah two days after Labor Day, this year...
Kids’ Books that Matter: Distributing Gleanings from Today’s Fields: Leket/Gleanings, Shikheḥah/Forgotten, & Pe’ah/Corners
It is most definitely fall. The leaves have turned spectacular shades of yellow, orange and red. The days are...
Kids’ Books that Matter: Teach Them Faithfully to Your Children: The Study of Torah
I have always been fascinated by Scripture. Whether versions of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), New Testament,...
Kids’ Books that Matter: Apology (Teshuva) & Forgiveness (Selicha)
My son, at about age 3 got on his scooter car and proceeded to “motor” around our back yard. Encountering his...
Kids’ Books That Matter: Celebrating Sukkot in Your Own Backyard
“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the yield of your land, you shall observe the...
Kids’ Books That Matter: Let Your Home Be Wide Open: Hachnasat Orchim/Hospitality
I was raised in an Italian-Catholic household. It felt to me, as a child back then, that we were either always...
Kids’ Books that Matter: The Jewish New Year
As we set about raising our children in the Jewish faith, I insisted they attend a Jewish pre-school. While...
Books, High Holy Days, Recipes, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Young Kids
Kids’ Books that Matter: Lo Ta’Amod Al Dam Re’echa/Not Standing By While Others are Threatened
Bullying seems to be the “topic of the day” lately. Whether the news comes from the classroom, the shopping...
Kids’ Books that Matter: The Whole Megillah – The Book of Esther & the Holiday of Purim
Despite my Catholic upbringing which had provided me with a comfortable familiarity with biblical stories from...
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