This interactive guide is designed especially for grandparents and grandchildren (ages 3–8) to use together — either in person or at a distance.
The kit offers ideas and activities to bring Purim to life through play, imagination, and hands-on discovery.
The 13 downloadable pages include:
Background and...
Dr. Erica Brown’s most recent book was on Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther that tells the Purim story). JGN Co-founder and CEO David Raphael interviewed Dr. Brown shortly before Purim 2022. Dr Brown is Savti to four grandchildren.
Megillat Esther is one of two books...
Editor’s note:
JGN Facebook member Andrea Gardner regularly shares practical and fun activities she does with her grandchildren. In this piece for our Purim newsletter Andrea writes about her planned activities for her grandchildren.
My grandchildren are four and six years old and these are some of...
“And Mordechai wrote down these things and sent missives to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Achashverosh — near and far — to inform them that every year henceforth, they should make the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month...
Editor’s Note:
Purim is a holiday of wonderful joy and mirth. We wear costumes, make noise, and eat yummy hamantaschen. Among the traditions for the holiday are Purim Spiels, comical performances held in synagogues, community centers, and education programs. Please consider the musings below a written...
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