Esty Zippel and her sister Cheli have created My Torah Tales, a personalized story book experiences for children.

The traditional response to finishing the Torah — “Strong, strong may we be strengthened” — was a balm in a terrifying moment, writes a mother and writer. JERUSALEM (JTA) — I was chanting from the ...

Why do we need to tell our kids that they can’t do important things for their own sake, but only to get some kind of reward? The notion of manicures for middle school girls in a Jewish school disturbs ...

Many years ago, when I began teaching parshat hashavua to kindergartners, I began looking through resources for teaching parshat hashavua to young children and found that there were very few (First ...

Eighteen months ago, when Lenard Cohen’s 4-year-old daughter was enrolled in the family’s congregational preschool, the Philadelphia-area father of three decided to go back to school himself. He ...

Jewish day camps across South Florida are filling kids’ summers with athletics, creativity and Judaism. Programs like those at Camp Nefesh in Fort Lauderdale and The Mandel JCC’s Camp Shalom in Palm ...

In our school, each class begins every day with tefillot, a morning service. During our first grade tefillot, we take our Sefer Torah out of the Aron Kodesh for a brief Torah service every Monday and ...

I wish parenting were as easy as laying out important values and acting on them. Or even as easy as the chassidic rebbe who explained to his devotees why he let his son play in the back of shul during ...

I was chanting from the Torah in synagogue when the first siren went off. It was the morning of Simchat Torah, the holiday celebrating our commitment to read the entire Torah over the year, starting ...