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April 28, 2005

How are the following missing words related to the plague of frogs?

On the holiday of ____________, we celebrate the season of ____________. On this holiday, we eat matzah to remind us of the Israelites’ bread that did not have time to ____________.
This year, it came a bit later in April, because it is
a Jewish ___________ year.

These comments were sent in by Laurel Wolf, pre-K teacher at Temple Beth Hillel in Valley Village. This is what some of her students had to say about the story of Passover:

“Pharoah didn’t like rainbows and he made the Jewish people cry. Moses freed the Jewish people!”
— Lauren, 5

“The Jewish people were slaves. Pharoah’s daughter raised baby Moses. Pharoah woke up
and there were frogs everywhere!”
— Zoey, 5

Bird Brain
Can you find the two bird names that are
mixed into these letters?

E G A G L O O E S E

A Timely Riddle

What happens once in a minute, twice in a
week, and once in a year?

 

 

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