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I’m nowhere near as crafty or fastidious as the Bible Belt Balabusta, but we did make some adorable model sukkahs in my first grade classroom. The goal of the lesson was to reinforce the concept that a sukkah is made of walls and schach, but we enjoyed adding decorations even more…… We used model magic…

It was a wet sukkot this year, and we didn’t have the chance to invite our friends to join us in decorating the walls. But we managed one good day of painting: Here’s Ella writing on the walls of the sukkah. Can you guess what it says? I’ll donate $10 to the tzedakah of your…

Early fall is an exhilarating, but exhausting time in our house, involving a lot of cleaning, cooking, inviting, celebrating, and a little more shul that we are used to. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot fill almost three consecutive weeks, during the Hebrew month of Tishrei. Fortunately, just as we are about to drop dead…

I’ll be back when this crazy month is over. Maybe a post a day to brighten *mar cheshvan? (*The Hebrew month of cheshvan is known as mar cheshvan, or bitter cheshvan, because of the absence of a single Jewish holiday in the entire month. I don’t know about you, but a month without holidays sounds…
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