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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the Haredi “million man” protest in Jerusalem on Thursday was widely billed as a demonstration against serving in the Israel Defense Forces — with the Supreme Court having ruled their ...

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 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 ...