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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...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories, Simchat Torah, Yom Kippur

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....

Motherhood, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Young Kids

3 Alternatives for Tashlich with Kids

When I was little, my favorite part of the High Holidays (besides the apples dipped in honey, challah dipped...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories, Parenting Tashlich

The Unraveling of Tradition

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

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

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...

Books, Parenting High Holy Days

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...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

Resolving to Practice

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

Parenting, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

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...

Parenting, Parenting High Holy Days, Young Kids

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...

Babies, Family, High Holy Days, High Holy Days Rituals, New Parents, Parenting High Holy Days

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...

Parenting, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

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...

Parenting, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

Introducing Your Family to the High Holidays

201 August 26, 2014 Courtney’s children with their grandparents It’s usually around Halloween when...

High Holy Days, Parenting High Holy Days

How to Teach and Reach: Children from Interfaith Families in Hebrew School

Many people want to be welcoming but don’t necessarily know exactly how to provide the welcoming learning environment...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Unplugging, Part 2

Two months ago, I declared my resolution to unplug with you on this blog. I told you I’d let you know how it...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

Does Hanukkah Need an Elf on the Shelf?

Growing up I was one of the few Jewish students in my school. I enjoyed going to holiday parties at my friend’s...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

Transgression, Repentance and Forgiveness on the Tennis Court

Sammy, on a happier day, after winning his first tennis tournament I had no intention of writing two posts on...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories, Parenting Successes

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

Turtle Rock, Sammy Spider, and the Word: High Holiday Books for Kids

1329 September 12, 2012 Like clockwork, fall arrives in New England each year, bringing with it beautiful...

High Holy Days, Parenting High Holy Days

Calendar Schmalendar

Spin the dreidels, light the menorahs, it is Hannukah time. When we announced that Saturday was the first...

Babies, Baby Naming, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

A Hockey Stick, Scissors, and One Unhappy Duck

We were feeling good after a great [url=http://www.interfaithfamily.com/smf/index.php?article=4358]Pie...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

Rosh Hashanah Pie Fest

One of the challenges of being an interfaith Jewish family is that at times we find ourselves without a large...

Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

I Wish Cokie and Steve Roberts Were In Our Camp

Cokie Roberts, who I love as an ABC News commentator, and her husband Steve Roberts, have published a new “interfaith...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Growing Up Interfaith, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Rosh Hashanah, Parenting Stories

An Appreciation of Richard Goldman

Richard Goldman, a founder with his wife of the [url=http://www.goldmanfund.org/html/home/home.html]Richard...

Parenting, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Stories

Hillary Clinton on the Upcoming Wedding

Thanks to [url=http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/hillary-clinton-says-we-need-more-intermarriage.html]Phillip...

High Holy Days, Holiday Toolbox, Jewish Holidays, Parenting, Parenting High Holy Days, Parenting Toolbox

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...

High Holy Days, Parenting, Parenting High Holy Days, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

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