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Planning a seder? You'll need a haggadah.
Which haggadah you use makes a big difference in how participants experience the seder.
Consider who's on your guest list. Of course it also matters how long you want your seder to last and what tone you want (solemn, inquisitive, or with a touch of whimsy).
Here's a guide to point you in the right direction.
The Heroes Haggadah: Lead the Way to Freedom
By Rabbi Kerry Olitzky and Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen
Perfect for:
- Intergenerational seders
- Those seeking a contemporary connection to the Exodus story
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Micah loved the noise maker, known as a gragger, that he used at his family's Purim party. With it they celebrated the defeat of the wicked Haman, a bully from biblical times who tried to get rid of the Jews. The gragger made him feel mighty! But on his way home, the gragger was lost.
This is the context of Mighty Micah, a new Purim picture book by bestselling author Jane Yolen.
Micah was nervous that without his gragger, he wouldn't be able to be brave, like Queen Esther.
However, his gragger was powerful. It journeyed from a raccoon's hands, to a fish's mouth, to a heron's beak, back to Micah's front steps.
Joyful at the return of his gragger, Micah takes it to school to show the class, so everyone could feel its mighty whirr, whirr, whirr, and they too could feel powerful and safe.
Also included is a note from the author with a brief summary
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Posted: January 11, 2024
We worked throughout the pandemic beyond to avoid price increases on school materials.
And we succeeded: we held prices steady for four years across our backlist in our effort to support our school customers through a very difficult period, while making available the broadest and deepest selection of materials for Jewish education you can find anywhere. At the same time, as educators pivoted to Zoom and other remote learning options, we increased access to our materials by creating online versions, made downloadable pdfs and other versions available, and provided a variety of free instant lessons. As recently as this fall we made another rich set of resources and a number of digital children's picture books about Israel available at no charge for those seeking to help kids develop context for what has been going on since October 7.
In the past two years, however, printing, freight, and other costs have skyrocketed. A series of meetings
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At Behrman House/Apples & Honey Press we combine individual attention with distribution that has national and international reach.
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Shalom Uvrachah has been fully redesigned for today's learners.
This effective Hebrew primer, our most widely used, is being updated with a fresh new look (goodbye, argyle sweaters) and some new activities (hello, partner work and more fun) to modernize this popular resource for teaching and learning to decode Hebrew using key cultural words.
The revised
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Posted: November 03, 2023||Coming in June 2024, the best Bible resource book ever, from award winner and 2023 Covenant Foundation Jewish Family Education Fellow Jonathan Schmidt Chapman.Read more »
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Posted: November 03, 2023||
Coming for Passover 2024, a haggadah that recognizes the heroism in Jewish culture and its contribution to our world and the enduring story of freedom that began with the ancient Exodus.
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Posted: October 24, 2023|
Discussion Questions for BREATH TAKING
- What expectations did you have for this memoir before you began reading it? How did you feel once you had finished?
- Chapter One of Breath Taking describes how Jessica and her husband first learn that something serious is threatening their daughter's health. What do we as readers learn about the author and her approach to being in the world at that moment? How does that initial impression change as we learn more of her story?
- Jessica emphasizes the need for joy to be louder than sorrow. Explore how the family finds moments of joy and how these moments become anchors in the face of heartbreak.
- There is much to make you cry in this book. Yet for all its seriousness, there are still many moments of levity and fun in Jessica's