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Blooming Tree Kid’s Craft For Tu B’Shevat

Here’s an artful blooming tree craft that’s great for all ages, and really quite simple. Surprise, this is how we used our pastel circles from my post about drawing with pastels, yesterday. Honestly I’m just so happy with the results, these trees just make everyone smile!I’m not altogether sure how we’ll display them just yet, but with Tu B’Shevat coming ...

Blogging the Institute: The Freedom Riders

Monday night as part of the JWA Summer Institute for Educators, we saw a sneak preview of a newly made documentary, The freedom Riders, which tells the story of the group of black and white young people, who rode south on two buses to deliberately break the segregation laws. The story of the Freedom Riders is a deeply moving and ...

Blasting the Borough Park Shomrim

One of the regular weekly features I write for Ami Magazine is a “News and Analysis” piece. Although I don’t usually post those offerings here on Cross-Currents (and even though Marvin Schick posted a fine piece on the subject here earlier this week), I thought I’d share my own take on the New York Jewish Week’s “expose” of Shomrim here ...

Black Widow in Israel

If you’re subscribed to Jewniverse (and why wouldn’t you be? Go do it now) you’ll get a different wacky Jewish thingy every day. Today’s was a history of Magneto, the villain of the feature film X-Men: First Class, which opens tomorrow.*And, sure, it would be cool if one of the main characters of this summer’s biggest blockbuster was Jewish! (Even if he ...

Black and Jewish: “Got a Star of David on my Grill”

I’m not usually a fan of parodies. That’s not to say I don’t like humor – au contraire! But like Leah once wrote for JWA, I, too, often find parodies to be uncreative, offensive or both. Still, even I was taken in by the latest pop culture parody to hit the web. “Black & Jewish,” performed by actresses Kali Hawk ...

Birthday Shavuos Cupcakes In A Pinch, With A Cherry On Top!

Making cute cupcakes in a pinch is something anyone can do, like for a birthday party in school, or in my case for a birthday party in school just before Shavous! There is of course one other very important element involved in this idea, and that is, are you ready for this……the cupcakes just have to be cute, they don’t ...

Birthday Cake Decor In Minutes: Birds and Mushrooms!

Need a super quick birthday cake theme? I sure did last week when my daughter’s tenth birthday party coincided with a very busy week. And after spending hours folding beautiful paper cranes, they were really the life of the party anyway, so the cake just needed to be cute enough and look festive. Plus I really didn’t have even a ...

Birdsong

Greetings Rabbi Lazer,As I sat down this afternoon to listen to the Emuna CD I received in the mail today entitled Help!, my mother mistook your voice for the sound of birdsong. She actually thought I was listening to an audio recording of birds in nature!Read More: @ lazerbrody.typepad.comReaders found more information by searching for:bird song jewish (2)You might also like:TTTT at Mule Creek ...

Biggest BS shidduch story of all time

Many years ago, when I used to shidduch date I remember hearing the same story over and over again to teach me about the strange world of shidduchim. I wondered why no one ever bothered to just call it BS and rather they wanted to believe that such craziness could be remotely possible – I guess the frum community is ...

Bibi Loves Pollard, Who by the way is no Dreyfus

Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu loves Jonathan Pollard and has written a letter asking for his release from federal prison in the United States.This just made us want to compare the historic Dreyfus Affair with its contrasting opposite, the modern Pollard Affair.Let’s see. The two start out similar. Both men were Jews who were accused of spying against their own countries.Read ...

Between Yom Kippur and Sukkos – Actions to Match Up to Our Prayers

From Days of Majesty – By Rabbi Daniel Yaakov TravisOn Yom Kippur, the Jewish people were forgiven for the sin of the golden calf and were given the second set of luchos. Yet even after this tremendous act of pardon, we still did not know if we had found favor in Hashem’s eyes. During the days between Yom Kippur and ...

Better than Valentine’s Day: Three things to celebrate instead!

In case you haven’t heard, today is Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day isn’t really a Jewish holiday, but since it’s a “Hallmark holiday,” it’s for everyone. Lucky you!While some folks enjoy Valentine’s Day (all the power to them!), many do not. As Jill of Feministe reminds us, many people like to project all their insecurities and issues onto Valentine’s Day. Of ...