Young Kids

We recently started getting People magazine as part of a “trade airline miles for subscriptions” deal. Because...

We’d Love to Come for Dinner…Mind If We Bring Shabbat?

Ruthie's candlesticks, ready to hit the road A couple of months ago, a friend invited us to Friday dinner...

Parenting, Parenting Shabbat, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

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...

High Holy Days for Parents, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

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

By Wendy Armon

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

Tikkun Olam Ted and the Importance of Small Steps

My family is one of the many families who benefits from the amazing PJ Library, an extraordinary program that...

Are you having a Jewish wedding?

By Dana & Christopher

“Are You Having a Jewish Wedding?” is a question that I seem to field a lot from friends of mine....

Parenting, Young Kids

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...

Books, Passover, Young Kids

A Day Together—Away From the Checkout Line

By Jodi Bromberg

Since I joined InterfaithFamily last fall, I’ve been thinking a lot about Jewish traditions and practice, and...

Parenting, Parenting Shabbat, Shabbat, Young Kids

Valentine’s Day: Embracing a Non-Jewish Family Tradition with my Whole Heart

When I was 17, my family hosted a French exchange student. Isabel had never spent any significant time in the...

Sharing the Bad Stuff with Younger Kids, Take 2

Two weeks ago, I wrote a post about editing the scary stuff from Bible stories when I read them to my 5-year-old....

The Challenge of Sharing The Bible with Younger Kids

In 2003 (five years before I had kids), I read about a project that drew me in for the ways it combined my love...

Synagogue Can Be Your Second Home

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

My children are too at home at our synagogue. Their dad is the rabbi there and they feel that his office is...

Parenting, Synagogue, Young Kids

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...

Unplugging, Part 2

High Holy Days for Parents, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

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

My Life is Changing

By Rabbi Ari Moffic

I often feel that life is a series of days unless we pause occasionally to celebrate. There are definitely highs...

Motherhood, Parenting, Young Kids

Kids’ Books that Matter: A November Dilemma: Hanukkah + Thanksgiving!

Motherhood, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

As if it were not difficult enough getting ready for Rosh Hashanah two days after Labor Day, this year...

Books, Hanukkah, Young Kids

Helping My Conservative Synagogue Find Balance

By Wendy Armon

The following post is by guest blogger Jodi Rosenfeld from the Philadelphia area. I sometimes feel like I am...

Save Some Water for the Fish

Earlier this week, Ruthie, her friend, and I had a heart-warming (for me) conversation about my work in affordable...

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,...

Books, Simchat Torah, Young Kids

My Resolution to Unplug

A warning to you, kind reader: You have read this story before. It’s about unplugging from technology and reconnecting...

Parenting, Parenting Shabbat, Parenting Stories, Young Kids

New School, New Year

This year, we won the lottery. The school lottery. We were among the lucky few to win a coveted public pre-kindergarten...

Remembering Mom (and Grandma) on her Birthday

This week we marked my mom’s birthday. She would have been 65, and had she not died last year, we would have...