215 Fun Ideas on Pinterest

Looking for some last minute ideas to do with your kids for Passover?  Games, crafts, recipes, seder games, table decorations, Jewish origami, desserts, edible seder plates...the list goes on.  Look no further than Pinterest where you will find thousands of ideas and suggestions (this board has just 215)

So get going.  You never know what you may find.

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Passover Seder: 5 Ideas for a Kid-Friendly Pesach

From MazelMoments.com

For the first time, I won’t be reading the Four Questions at our Passover seder! A new generation is taking over! While our seder has been pretty traditional and predictable for the last few decades, we are now thinking about how to make the Jewish traditions fun and engaging for the young children in our families.

We want to make Passover a memorable and fun learning experience for everyone! So we started to explore ways to create a kid-friendly Passover seder.  What we found was amazing and we can’t wait until the Seders!
We’ve put together our top 5 Ideas for Making a Child-Friendly Passover Seder.

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Why Jewish Families Should Vaccinate Their Kids

By Jamie Rubin for Kveller

Since the news of the recent Disneyland measles outbreak and the subsequent chatter on Facebook began, I discovered I have at least four Facebook friends (and likely a few more) with healthy, non-immunocompromised, vaccine-aged children who have decided, for non-medical reasons, to not vaccinate.

For some of these friends and acquaintances, the news was not surprising considering their views on other issues. With one friend in particular, though, it felt like a betrayal, one that I just can’t get past. Here this person was, in my community, in my home, and I never knew how they felt and what steps they were taking to separate themselves from the herd. I spent some time thinking and talking about it with another friend and realized one of the major reasons it bothered me so much is because this family is Jewish.

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Focusing on Jewish Kids With Disabilities

Focusing on Jewish Kids With Disabilities

All our children deserve love, joy, and a Jewish education

By Marjorie Ingall for Tablet Magazine

So, the Jewish parenting site Kveller has made me cry twice in the last two weeks. And this has nothing to do with Mayim Bialik’s perspective on vaccines or baby formula!

Kveller has partnered with the Ruderman Family Foundation, which works for greater inclusion of people with disabilities in the Jewish community. Ruderman is offering financial support and guidance for Kveller’s coverage of disability-related topics for a year. Kveller will be doing two articles a week, one focused on the bar or bat mitzvah experience and one on general topics related to Jews and disability. The collaboration started at the beginning of February, which is not-so-coincidentally Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month.

The first piece that made me cry was called What I Learned While Planning a Bat Mitzvah for My Daughter With Disabilities. It’s by Cindy Kaplan, and every parent—indeed, every Jew—should read it. How can a nonverbal child with cognitive delays and physical challenges celebrate this event? How to mark this milestone when it’s not clear precisely what it will mean to the child in question? Kaplan’s answer is gorgeous. The day is about celebration of the experience as it is, not a Platonic ideal.

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Purim Books & Games

Looking for some ideas of what to do with the kids for Purim?  Maybe you need some "Pin"spiration, inspiration from Pinterest, that is.

Check out the great suggestions on Pinterest that you and your child can do together:

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