Calling all moon gazers! PJ Library is here to help you understand the Jewish calendar and prepare for and celebrate Jewish holidays throughout the year. Be sure to check out our digital calendar – the companion to the print version of PJ Library’s Perpetual Jewish Calend...
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24/08/2021 12:46:21
The summer holiday has been a blast, but it's already time to start thinking about heading back to school. To help ease the transition from summer to school for both parents and kids, we collected some of our favourite tips, lists, and organising ideas. General Tips ...
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31/08/2016 05:00:00
In the familiar version of this popular folk tale, the eponymous fowl finds a grain of wheat and asks her friends to help her make it into bread. At each stage the hen’s request is met with refusal – but when the bread is ready, her lay-about friends are suddenly eager to ...
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13/03/2017 09:44:35
The Schmutzys live in the country, so from Sunday to Thursday the children’s creative play means mud pies in the kitchen and frogs in the sink. But as the week comes to a close, it’s a different story: on Friday the kids clean up the enormous mess and help Mama prepare for...
/beyond-books/pjblog/july-2018/why-we-chose-this-book-the-schmutzy-family
18/07/2018 00:00:00
The people of ancient Jerusalem walk a long way to get their water from a spring. It’s a hard job, and Shimri wants to help out, but he’s too small. One day, the king decides to build a tunnel to make the water more accessible. Shimri heeds his grandmother’s advice -- to...
/beyond-books/pjblog/april-2019/why-we-chose-this-book-shimri’s-big-idea
25/04/2019 00:00:00
Kids love to pocket their treasures from hikes, trips to the beach , or just a lazy afternoon in the garden. Any parent who has done a four-year-old’s laundry knows how much stuff gets collected over the course of a day. Of course to a child, these found objects are all u...
/beyond-books/pjblog/august-2019/make-a-summer-treasure-box
08/08/2019 00:00:00
PJ Library, the charity that sends Jewish books to Jewish children, celebrates its fifth birthday next week. They asked me (and four other food writers) to each help them do so with a special recipe. How better to celebrate than with a cake that can be made in minute...
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27/02/2020 00:00:00
Hi, my name is Esther and I am the children’s author of the Sophie Says series which is all about making life’s most important lessons fun to learn. I want to help children bypass harmful stereotypes before they set in, by changing the face of children’s literature. My m...
/beyond-books/pjblog/may-2021/sophie-says-its-okay-to-not-be-okay
01/05/2021 09:58:58
Every child knows what it feels like to be hungry. An easy "first mitzvah" to involve kids in is, maakhal revi’im, feeding the hungry. Kids are natural helpers--getting involved with filling community fridges, donating to food banks, or just bringing food to a neighbour ...
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03/10/2022 17:12:21
In Judaism there’s a concept called shalom bayit that translates to “peace in the home.” This concept originally represented a standard to uphold between spouses, but today shalom bayit is more of a reminder about the ways that everyone in the family can contribute to a...
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04/10/2022 09:56:16
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