To celebrate PJ Library’s fifth Birthday in the UK, we are highlighting five PJ Library families, who feel PJ Library has played a significant role in the family’s access to Jewish education.
Diana Mark moved to the UK from Israel two years ago and her children Eva and David love receiving the monthly books. She sent us this message about why PJ Library is important to her family:
We have been receiving PJ Library books for about a year. I like that children can recognise the holidays they know. The books help us to keep in touch with our culture and language, making them relevant, not left behind in Israel. The topics in the stories are not seen as something from our past, as a previous culture that we left behind in Russia and Israel. Rather, the holidays and books are relevant and continue to accompany us in our new life in the UK.
PJ Library gives you the opportunity not only to read, but also be with the children: they begin to cook Jewish foods (we loved the apron!) or decorate the house for Jewish holidays. They bring them to school for Hanukkah or Passover to tell their classmates and we love it! We really like the book called Who Loves Shabbat? because we know the song with these words, and we sing it together with the book.
Diana’s story is just one of many that we receive every year illustrating how PJ Library impacts families across the UK.
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Thank you
March 2, 2020