Let’s think about babies and toddlers The first three years of life are rarely remembered by the child. But by four or five years of age memories are beginning to “stick”. You really get a long neutral period to figure out what you want to incorporate into your home life. What will you teach your…
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Honoring Your Jewish Child’s Non-Jewish Heritage 2024
Every child needs to understand where they come from. If you are raising your child as a Jew, but one parent is not Jewish it is essential that you teach your child about that side of their family. This is half of them! They need to be comfortable with how they put these parts together…
Read More »Baby and Me/Tinok v’ Ani
My dear friend, Karen, is again offering a Baby and Me group – one of those memorable parenting steps that help new parents to understand and adapt to the brand new world of PARENTHOOD! Here are the details: Are you a new parent? Was your baby born between September 1, 2023 and March 1, 2024?…
Read More »Introduction to Judaism: Winter 2024
It’s been a difficult few months so we have to be patient with each other. I have gathered some Basic Judaism classes that will begin next week in January. I’ll add what others come my way. If YOUR synagogue is offering a class and you don’t see it here, please email me the details at dawn@buildingjewishbridges.org…
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(Jewish) Life with Children A common question posed to interfaith couples is, “How will you raise the kids”? When the reply is “Jewish”, what does that mean? So many engaged non-Jews lovingly say, sure, we can raise the kids Jewish. But I find that it is rare that the Jew has explained what that means…
Read More »The Best Gift is You
The 2023 Winter Solstice began at 7:27pm last night. No matter your religious tradition we all live on the same planet and those of us in the northern hemisphere have reached the darkest point of the year. For a few days the amount of daylight will remain the same and then, gradually, the minutes of…
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