February 2012

Me and my sister in law, Sara Diament, and two other authors:Rabbi BEnjamin Blech and Dr. Saul Landa–all YU alums. At the YU seforim sale family day.

and the winner of the book is…Melissa! Congratulations. Thanks to everyone who participated–there are some really fun creative costume ideas here. I really enjoyed reading them! Have a wonderful Purim!

Hi. Can’t believe it’s almost Purim! My favorite. (The only problem is, that Passover comes right after, and I am still in denial about that…) Anyway, just click on the image, print and give to your expert color-ers. If you are looking for a second fun acitivity, you can get my  page from last year here…. Read more »

I am so happy to be running my second giveaway! This time I will be giving away a copy of Barbara Diamond Goldin’s book, “Cakes and Miracles, A Purim Story”. (You can see my review in my previous post.) You can enter two ways:   1)What is the best Purim costume you and/ or your… Read more »

Purim is known as a holiday of hidden miracles, and things unseen. How appropriate then, that ‘Cakes and Miracles: a Purim Tale” tells the story of a blind boy name Herschel who wishes he could help his mother prepare for the holiday. Herschel learns that while he can’t ‘see’, he has an inner sight of… Read more »

I was so pleased to be asked to interview Eric Kimmel for the Sydney Taylor awards blog tour. (thanks, Heidi!) This is probably one of my longest blog posts. I usually try to keep them short because I am aware that modern attention span is nil, but everything he said was so interesting, I couldn’t… Read more »

Celebrate the Jewish New Year for trees! As always, just click on the image, and print. (and if you do share it with kids–I’d love to see them. Send me your pics of their art and I will post it here. They’ll be famous!)