08 Dec Simple Ideas to Bring Hanukkah to Life
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Playful ways to celebrate Hanukkah with your grandchild in person or at a distance.
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28 Nov JGN Facebook Group Recommends Best Hanukkah Books for Kids
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A member of the Jewish Grandparents Network Facebook Group asked this question in the group and got the MOST helpful responses. My 7-year-old grandson wants to share a Hanukkah book with his public-school class. The group is very diverse (think Palestinian, Hindi, Muslim, Christian) and...
13 Nov Thanksgivukkah: 10 Minutes to Connect Thanksgiving and Hanukkah
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Thanksgivukkah is when Thanksgiving and Hanukkah coincide. Here is a 10-minute ceremony to connect the two holidays.
01 Nov Hanukkah Candle-Lighting Blessings
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Here are the blessings for lighting Hanukkah candles.
10 Feb Get Cooking with Your B-Mitzvah-Age Grandchild
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Listen to what’s on your B-Mitzvah grandchild’s mind as you cook together.
20 May Sephardic Holiday Customs
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Rich Sephardic traditions can spice up your family’s holiday celebrations.
23 Apr Exciting Imaginary Play with Your Grandchild
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6 ways to engage your grandchild in fun and creative imaginary play.
05 Apr Guiding our Grandchildren to Be Helpers
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How can we pass on the value of chesed — lovingkindness — to our grandchildren?
23 Mar Creative Art with Your Grandchild: Embrace the Temporary
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Ways to do creative — yet temporary — art with your grandchild.
21 Feb How to Write a Book with Your Grandchild
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Writing stories together is the perfect grandparent-grandchild activity — not to mention a terrific workout for a young imagination.
23 Jan Beyond the Book: Bringing Words to Life with Your Grandchild
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Here are seven ways to activate story time with your young grandchild.
24 Nov Together, Let’s Save Precious Resources
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As grandparents, we think about the world we are leaving our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We face the challenges of climate change and the dwindling of precious natural resources. How can we impart to our grandchildren a commitment to repairing the world even as we spin the dreidel, light the menorah, and perhaps exchange modest gifts?
23 Nov Making Room For Each Other In Interfaith Families
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“Grandpa, will you get your ice cream in a dish or in a cone?” my then-seven-year-old granddaughter, Amina, asked. We were walking to the ice cream parlor in the little town in Connecticut where her mother was the rabbi of the local temple. I was...
11 Nov Counting Latkes
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“There are fifty latkes on this tray,” my 95-year-old mother says. I nod and continue peeling potatoes. My sister is frying. My niece is chopping onions. My mother spreads another paper towel on a cookie sheet and continues counting. It’s that time of year. Where...
21 Oct 8 Ways to Make Chanukah Your Own
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Chanukah’s simplicity is what makes it beautiful. There are so many ways to make the holiday our own. Haggadot.com can help you discover eight rituals, centered around eight themes of Chanukah.
13 Oct Children’s Books and Disability: Looking in the Mirror
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For disabled children, books featuring other disabled people — mirrors — where kids see and read about people similar to them helps them identify with the characters and can play a role in boosting self-image. These books convey the positive message that there are many children like them.
10 Oct The Benefits of Playful Learning
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Imagine a child and caregiver playing together with blocks on the floor. The child places a block and the caregiver neatly stacks another block on top.
03 Jun Create Your Own Family Cookbook
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A bit about our own family background: Bubbie Ida Paperny, Ron’s maternal grandmother, lived in the kitchen. She also loved in the kitchen. She loved when her four daughters helped her cook up a huge family Shabbat or holiday meal.
18 May Miriam’s Dance Party: A Passover Project
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Art plays an important role in Judaism. Artisans are mentioned in the Torah in relation to making beautiful textiles and ritual objects of precious stones and metals for the Tabernacle and Temple.
18 May Folk Art: Micrography
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Micrography is a centuries-old Jewish art form using tiny written words to make decorative pictures. A highly skilled micrography artist might write the entire biblical book of Jonah in the shape of a whale or the book of Esther in the shape of a crown.
04 May Recipes for Memories
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Food and fun, kitchens, and dining room tables. When we grandparents cook with our children and grandchildren, we not only share our favorite foods. We share our values, our traditions, our stories, and most importantly, our love.
