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6 Activities for Tu Bishvat with Kids

By Miriam Steinberg-Egeth

Tu Bishvat is sometimes called the Jewish Earth Day or the Birthday of the Trees. This family-friendly holiday...

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Strolling with Moses on Shavuot

By Anna Keller

There was a painting that hung in the living room of our house when I was a child. My father’s good friend Mike...

Babies, Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Shavuot

Thanks for Giving Me Shavuot for Father’s Day

By Alex Schuh

The Schuh family at their children’s b’nai mitzvah One thing I love about being in an interfaith...

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Why Purim is the Original Interfaith Holiday

By Dana Marlowe

When I explain Purim to those less familiar with the holiday, I tell them it’s kind of like Jewish Halloween....

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Purim: The Darker Side of a Festive Holiday

By Lela Casey

Lela’s daughter enjoying one of her first Purim celebrations The first time I really celebrated Purim...

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A Little Christmas Can Be Enriching

By Jacob Weis

Anybody who has had even the most menial part in celebrating Christmas can probably acknowledge the beauty in...

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Planning for a First Shavuot

By Emily Mace

Despite being part of a Jewish family for the past decade, I have never celebrated Shavuot. After the excitement...

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Baby Namings and the Flexibility of Tradition

By Emily Mace

When I was pregnant with our first daughter, my husband and I were living in the mountains of North Carolina....

Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Purim, Parenting Stories

Raising Strong Girls, Telling the Purim (and Passover) Stories

By Jessie Boatright

Before I had daughters, I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted to raise them. I had been raised with...

Parenting, Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Purim

A Snowstorm, My Pup, and a Moment to Celebrate Nature

By Jessie Boatright

It’s Tu Bishvat. The Birthday of the Trees. Hooray trees?!? It is wonderful and important to honor this special...

Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Tu Bishvat

Coming Clean with Your Toddler on Tu Bishvat

By Jessie Boatright

Tu Bishvat is a really beautiful holiday; a new year for the trees. It is a time to think about the earth,...

Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Tu Bishvat

A Meditation on Rules: My Shavuot Postscript

By Jessie Boatright

Shavuot came at an interesting time in our parenting journey this year. In addition to cheese blintzes, the...

Parenting, Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Shavuot

How an Interfaith Wedding Couple Made Me Think About Queen Esther’s Marriage

By Rabbi Robyn Frisch

A couple of months ago I officiated at the wedding of a wonderful couple—the bride was Jewish and the groom...

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What Would Esther Think?

By Jane Larkin

Queen Esther, the brave, beautiful and intermarried heroine of Purim. Over the past month, the intermarriage...

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Pray for Rain

By Jane Larkin

The drought and high temperatures have caused large sections of our pond to evaporate. My family is looking...

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Coming In The Front Door

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

I’ve heard rabbis say that the most important part of the synagogue is not the ark where the Torah scrolls...

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Answering the Why? One Parent’s Perspective

By Amy Claver

I just read [url=http://www.interfaithfamily.com/smf/index.php?article=4608]Teaching the Why?...

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Purim After All

By Nancy Thompson Brown

When we started our daughter at a Conservative Jewish preschool, I knew there would be a learning curve—after...

Parenting Other Holidays, Parenting Stories, Purim

Because Some People Like Dancing

By Ruth Abrams

I’m reading the short excerpt from Elie Kaunfer’s book Empowered Judaism in the New York Jewish...

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Adult hands and child hands planting a tree.

Sukkot: Our Harvest Celebration

By Jane Larkin

Sukkot is one of my family’s favorite holidays. It was not always this way. As a child, I did not pay...

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After the Book is Closed: Children’s Books for the Fall Holidays

By Mimi DuPree

Reviews of Sukkot Treasure Hunt by Allison Ofanansky, illustrated by Eliyahu Alpern (Kar-Ben, 2009) and The...

Books, Jewish Holidays, Parenting Other Holidays, Sukkot

Kids’ Books that Matter: The Whole Megillah – The Book of Esther & the Holiday of Purim

By Kathy Bloomfield

Despite my Catholic upbringing which had provided me with a comfortable familiarity with biblical stories from...

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