02 Mar Purim Activities to Do With Your Grandchildren Ages 3–8

Posted at 02:34h in by Sarah Reid

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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...

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01 Mar An Insider’s Guide to Observing Purim

Posted at 09:49h in by Sarah Reid

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“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...

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28 Feb Grogger Reflections from a Big Ol’ Blow Hard

Posted at 06:13h in by Sarah Reid

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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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08 Jan Tu BiShvat and Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Posted at 00:56h in by Jewish Grandparents Network

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This year, Tu BiSh'vat and Martin Luther King Jr. Day fall on the same day — January 17, 2022. The convergence of these two seemingly unrelated holidays gives us an opportunity to explore two important issues of our time: climate justice and social justice. ...

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22 Dec Grandparents’ Unconditional Love…and Then Some

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Grandparents’ unconditional love extends to our grandchildren with developmental and learning differences. We strive to be there when they struggle with emotional challenges. Unconditional love is the magic bridge that spans the generations....

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28 Nov JGN Facebook Group Recommends Best Hanukkah Books for Kids

Posted at 08:51h in by Terry Kaye

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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 he...

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24 Nov Together, Let’s Save Precious Resources

Posted at 08:21h in by Jewish Grandparents Network

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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...

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23 Nov Making Room For Each Other In Interfaith Families

Posted at 00:00h in by Jewish Grandparents Network

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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 taking...

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11 Nov Counting Latkes

Posted at 06:42h in by Jewish Grandparents Network

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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 the women...

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04 Nov You are Descended from Leaders

Posted at 20:57h in by Jewish Grandparents Network

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You are descended from leaders, whose faith propelled them to “do the right thing” and raise up others, as they themselves rose to success. Your great-great-great-grandparents brought others from the jaws of the Czarist army and the winds of war to safety in the United...

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