While Yair, 8-year-old Ezra and 5-year-old Neima usually jump at the chance to help in the kitchen, just peeling carrots or washing parsley can get boring. They want real jobs, and especially during the cooking-intensive weeks of the High Holy Days, giving them more challenging tasks is a good way to hold their interest in all things culinary.
A growing number of synagogues around Los Angeles and throughout the country are upending the time-honored idea of Sunday school.
Kadima Hebrew Academy is hoping to raise funds through one of the latest tools — a million-dollar home raffle. Kadima is selling 18,000 tickets at $150 each to give away a furnished and landscaped five-bedroom, four-bathroom, newly constructed home in West Hills.
As part of her participation in the Community Youth Foundation — a program of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles where teens allocate $10,000 in grants — Teller and her friends visited Shane\’s Inspiration, a West L.A. playground for the disabled.
Today? We\’re litigious and safety conscious and have all sorts of rules and techniques so kids don\’t get hurt emotionally or physically … and the camp prank still reigns supreme.
To 8-year-old Ezra, the pre-opening event at the new Noah\’s Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center is a novel and memorable play experience, with all the sorts of things kids love — noisy cranks and pulleys to operate, to play with and to discover. While fun is high on the list of goals for the fanciful and compelling world of Noah\’s Ark, opening to the public on June 26, curators believe a couple hours aboard the ark can also help kids and the grownups they bring learn about the importance of collaboration and the effect your actions can have on your world — all with the underlying epic theme of how to weather a storm and find safe harbor.
Education briefs.
The Jewish Journal talked to four students who shatter the Jewish college-obsessed stereotype.
What can you get for 31 cents? It turns out a whole lot more than a bargain scoop of ice cream.
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