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June 2015 ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Thursday, June 25, 2015. Parshas Chukas: Why you need darkness to feel the light. Have you ever wondered what its like to be blind? Picture yourself in a world of darkness, groping around, not knowing where - or what - anything is. . Last month, I got to go to the Dialogue in the Dark exhibit at the Israel Childrens Museum in Holon. Youre immersed in a darkness so intense you cant see even the outlines of the other people in the room. 160; Are you about to bump into something? After the...
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February 2015 ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Monday, February 23, 2015. The Jewish Defense League – why they don’t speak for me (or you? I just got flamed on Facebook – now that’s something that doesn’t happen often. My life’s pretty boring, I guess.). But when I saw this story. In a Facebook group, about the Jewish Defense League setting up shop in Montreal, I mentioned that I found their tactics disgusting. Photo credit: JDL Canada website). Apparently, it was the wrong thing to say. You] portrait of a Jewish lemming. Proudly br...
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Where I disagree ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. NOTE: One year after my brother Eli's death in 2014, I published a book about the intertwining of our lives and his struggle with schizophrenia. This post and many other writings are included, in slightly different form, in that book. Please wait until the ride has come to a full and complete stop. Is now available in print and Kindle editions. Through laughter and tears, I invite you to come share my final journey with my brother. We ought to lock them up.
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(Kind of) Fast Fun Easy Rosh Hashanah Shofar Craft! ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Kind of) Fast Fun Easy Rosh Hashanah Shofar Craft! 160; If you’re coming here on Friday to do crafts, don’t read on…. Kid step: decorate the shofar shapes with stickers, colouring, stencil, writing, etc. Adult step: wrap masking tape around the end of a length of yarn to make a stiff (but safe! 8220;needle.” Match up corners of the paper shofars and tie one end of yarn to one corner. Optional adult step: “stiffen” the shofar body by insertin...And insert it ...
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Parshas Shlach: Facebook & the meraglim, what are you hiding? ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Thursday, June 11, 2015. Parshas Shlach: Facebook and the meraglim, what are you hiding? Maybe you think this is the age of “let it all hang out,” when Google rules, your friends post their snacks on Facebook, and there are no secrets left in the world. Believe me, there are still plenty of secrets. And this bold new world may have more in common with the world of the Torah than we’d like to believe, as this week’s parsha, Shlach, shows us. 8230; and I’m not. They’re losing weight ...
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"Pour out my heart like water" – thoughts for Tisha b’Av 5775 ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Pour out my heart like water – thoughts for Tisha b’Av 5775. Sitting here in Toronto, the big difference between Israel and the world I grew up in is obvious. I heard this in a shiur yesterday from Rabbanit Chana Henkin, who said, "There's nothing like water to emphasize the difference between inside and outside Israel.". The water here makes me happy. Sort of. But you know where else had a lot of water? How can we sing Hashem's song on foreign soil? Here in Cana...
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Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Tuesday, November 02, 2010. Hebrew/ עברית and English General Studies Printables. For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here. If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi! If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me. Remove the X’s) for rates. Use instead of or in...
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Why Jewish reincarnation matters (even if you don’t believe in reincarnation) - a dvar Torah for Parshas Pinchas ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Friday, July 10, 2015. Why Jewish reincarnation matters (even if you don’t believe in reincarnation) - a dvar Torah for Parshas Pinchas. Do you know what Judaism teaches about reincarnation? Many people are surprised to hear that this is even part of our worldview. I read on Chabad.org. That the reason we aren’t aware of previous incarnations is because if we were, we wouldn’t be able to have complete free will. So what does this all have to do with this week’s parsha? The man he killed ...
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August 2015 ♥ Adventures in Mama-Land
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Me and My Books. Sunday, August 30, 2015. Freelance writing lessons learned in the Fiverr trenches. One of the great things about the Modern Era is that you can work as a writer in English from anywhere in the world. . The downside is working for a range of clients, all over the world, some of whom – you’d swear – are the laziest human beings that could exist on the planet. If Hashem made them any lazier, they’d simply stop breathing. Don’t believe me? Here are some of the lowlights – the most ann...
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