Forum: Judaism Board

My soon to be 12 year old son has ADHD, anxiety and a Tourette's variant but we have things under good control with medications. He will become Bar Mitzvah a year from this May. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to get him through his lessons as easily as possible??? Our synagogue is...

A Happy and Kosher Passover to all! Bash

to all :)

i have to work on the 29th until 1:30pm and i am having 17 people over for dinner. i need quick and easy recipe suggestions i am serving apples and honey challah matzo ball soup 3 briskets with onions, carrots and potatoes

Well, we survived the weekend events. 1st off- Sarah was amazing!. She totally blew me away. She led the services with confidence and chanted her torah and haftorah portions beautifully. People were blown away. When I got up to make my speach she asked that it not be too mushy. I told her too late...

so our neighborhood (over 900 families) now has a social committee. they have a yahoo group and sent out a message yesterday that there will be a movie night for kids on september 29th. so i posted that i don't know if anyone is aware but the 29th is the start of one of two very religious...

I came across this board today- well about me - I live in Tel Aviv, but currently we are expats in africa. we are going home in 10 days so I am very excited especially as it will be Samuel's 1st bday. Thanks to Israel and their wonderful IVF program, I have my beautiful baby boy. next monday...

Hi everyone!! I'm so sorry to barge on your board! I am BC of the Islam board (your neighbor!!! :) ), and I have a question for you... I have a good friend who is Jewish. He is having a serious surgery done this weekend, and I really want to do something special for him. He really doesn't...

so we got the date 7/11/09 penciled in on the place penciled in for the dj found a great centerpiece/souvenier to get they are called wanderfuls. got the theme of jimmy buffett that lara wants to do

Has anyone out there done a bar/bat mitzvah in Israel? If so, what tour company did you go with? I am beginning initial planning for my DS' bar mitzvah. He will have a ceremony and VERY small party here in May 2010 and we hope to go to Israel in December 2010 for a second ceremony. ...

That Hanukkah starts on Dec 4th!!! My girls' birthday is Nov 29th and we are going to the American Girl store in NYC on the 30th to celebrate. Elizabeth is in Alice in Wonderland next weekend, and Laura's in the Nutcracker for the 1st 2 weekends in December, so there's been lots of rehearsals. ...

i have a friend that is starting to look for camps for their daughter for next summer. she know all about camp louise from me. has anyone ever sent their kids to capital camps in PA? i pulled up their website and saw they have different "villages" some have indoor plumbing and are bunks...

Although I grew up in a Kosher home, we do not keep Kosher in our home. Lunches need to be Pareve or dairy. The problem is that my DD doesn't really eat sandwiches so I am trying to figure out what I am going to give her for lunch every day. She will be 3 in September and camp is 9-1. She eats...

for any of you who read Hebrew, I wanted to share that a children book i wrote was published a couple of weeks ago in Israel. http://www.steimatzky.co.il/NS_GetProdInfo.asp?prodid=12922593 :-) Take care R

Well my husband and I are expecting a baby which I beleive to be a boy. My husband is not Jewish and is not comfortable with the idea of a Bris in our home. I have no issue with it and feel it is a big part of his Jewishness. However.. I respect how my husband feels. OK.. here is the...

dh and i both have big families. we started writing a list down of mandatory family members and including us we have 92 people we have to invite my parents want to invite 36 friends and my mother in law wants to invites some friends but hasn't given us the list yet. the bat mitzvah...

I am working with my Rabbi to schedule a date for my Mikveh and Beit Din. It was important to me to do it before my babies arrived. I have been studying for about a year now and realized I was getting closer and closer to my due date. My Rabbi is a little concerned about me getting into the Mikveh...

july 11, 2009 we are doing a havdalah service now the fun part comes in. we no longer belong to a synagogue. this year we decided to try and save some money on membership and instead are sending our kids to the maryland school for jewish education. it is just a sunday school held weekly at...

thought you will enjoy this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTSunmVs0yg

we spend christmas eve bored to death watching movies on tv. on christmas day we watch the disney christmas parade together, get dressed go to a movie togethr and then out for an early dinner of chinese food before the restaurants get packed with all our fellow jews in the area

okay. dh and i just got invited to a bat mitzvah. it is my sil's brother's daughter....did you follow that? only dh and i are invited. dh's brothers are all invited. my mil is invited. my sister is invited. my kids are not invited. the service is at 9am and the party is a luncheon...

A Happy Chanuka to all of you. We are doing first candle with friends who celebrate chanuka, xmas, and Kwanza. J is super jealous. He wants all the holidays. Tomorrow is a chanuka party at friends who also have a daughter adopted internationally (China). A great start to the eight days....