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What The Jewish New Year Looks Like In Brooklyn

While my family passed those first few lonely months in quarantine together in Brooklyn, the pandemic’s...

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Unlocking High Holy Days with Kids: A Cheat Sheet

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Quiz for Parents: What’s Your Jewish New Year Vibe?

Haven’t figured out what your family is doing for the Jewish New Year? Take this quiz to see what your...

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Apple & Honey Hand Pie Pocket

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, usually falls in September or October, and is typically celebrated by eating...

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Tashlich Alternatives to Try with Kids this Rosh Hashanah

During the Rosh Hashanah holiday, many adults and kids alike observe tashlich. It’s a fun outdoor tradition...

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Rosh Hashanah Crafts & Activities

Even if you’ve never celebrated the Jewish New Year before, or you haven’t done it in a kid-friendly...

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How To Spend Yom Kippur Day With Kids

Wondering how to spend Yom Kippur with your kids this year? You will likely be at home, and if you have young...

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Round Challah Recipe & Braiding Tutorial

If you’ve never baked a round challah, or any shape challah, this recipe and braiding tutorial from PJ...

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Celebrating the High Holy Days with Kids Booklet

Available in on-screen reading friendly (PDF) and printer-friendly, downloadable (PDF) versions. For more booklets,...

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What Does My Jewish Community Say About Women?

What does my Jewish community say about women? I can’t remember. For all of my time in Yeshiva, all of my holidays...

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This Yom Kippur, I’m Hanging on to My Sins

It’s been a long year. It seems that every year I approach Yom Kippur saying these words. And it’s always true....

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3 Alternatives for Tashlich with Kids

You can’t forget about performing tashlich for kids. When I was little, my favorite part of the High Holidays...

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Guide: Celebrating High Holy Days with Kids and Family: Fun and Meaningful Activities

Return to the Guide to the High Holy Days Fun and Meaningful Activities To whatever degree your family is planning...

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Guide: Celebrating High Holy Days with Kids and Family

Return to the Guide to the High Holy Days The High Holy Days are a time for families to come together. But you...

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The Unraveling of Tradition

This year’s Rosh Hashanah became the beginning of a challenging New Year. Approaching the middle of my third...

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5 Rosh Hashanah Stories to Read with Your Preschooler

By PJ Library This post originally appeared on PJ Library and is reprinted with permission. Chances are, your...

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Cut fresh pomegranates and seeds on a table alongside apples and a honey jar.

Guide: Planning Ahead When Celebrating High Holy Days with Kids and Family

Return to the Guide to the High Holy Days Planning Ahead These are good holidays to plan ahead for, especially...

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A Mother’s Jewish Guilt

Helen Rose in her Hand Made Birthday Dress from her Abuelita in Mexico I burned myself last week. Right after...

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Resolving to Practice Tashlich

Tashlich, the Jewish New Year practice of symbolically casting our sins off into the water, was not something...

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SORRY: The Hardest, And Perhaps Most Powerful, Word

One of my favorite children’s books for Yom Kippur is Jacqueline Jules’ The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story....

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Learning to Think Ahead about Holidays

One of the biggest challenges for me as an interfaith spouse and parent has been learning to think ahead about...

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Surviving Our First High Holy Days as Brand New Parents

I have always loved Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They were among the few Jewish holidays I remember celebrating...

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A New Year’s Resolution – Talk More (and Listen too!)

A very, very Happy New Year, everyone. Hopefully your New Year’s Eve comes on the heels of a lovely holiday...

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My New Year’s Resolution: Improvement Not Perfection

A lesson on caring for our world before a park cleanup made me realize I wasn't doing all I could to fulfill...

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