iObserve – Brachot for your iPhone
How cool is this!
Every Bracha comes in Hebrew, English and transliterated. Learn to pronounce by reading the transliterated version, learn to understand by reading in English. And then brush up your Hebrew!
Complete Birkat Hamazon Face it: It’s quite long. But it’s also extremely rewarding to say it.
Some blessings for special occasions. [...]
A Day at Jewish Camp, Fun Even for Grownups!
This past Sunday Avi and I attended my old Jewish summer camp, Camp JCA Shalom, for a reunion day. I was very excited to be going and Avi was also interested in seeing what it was about Jewish camp that I loved so much. I am writing about this on JBC.ORG for a myriad of [...]
To Talit? Revisited.
Last December, on the one year anniversary of our engagement to be precise, I wrote a post entitled “To Talit… or Not to Talit…That is the Question”. At that time I was examining my feelings around the subject of myself and talit wearing. This was not really a post about whether or not women should [...]
Zoo Torah and Conversations with My Kids about G-d and Science
Hi all,
I’ve been spending lots of time home with my family since the arrival of our new daughter, Nadia (I’ll tell you her Hebrew name after the naming ceremony!), and recently I had a pretty deep discussion with my older two daughters about creation, the Bible, dinosaurs, and how all of that can get really [...]
Special Needs and the Jewish Community
About ten years ago I was working for an agency that worked with children and teens (and their parents) who were emotionally disturbed. Some of these children/teens were also intellectually challenged. Three of the children I worked with were from the same family. All three were intellectually challenged as well as emotionally disturbed (their older [...]
