August Family Fun with the Artists Behind Shabbat ShaMorning

shabbat shamorning hosts Ellen and Zigzag

Before the summer slips away, join award-winning children’s musician and composer Ellen Allard for Summer Family Jam, a 5-week series of joyful, interactive, and engaging 30-minute virtual family music classes for ages 0 - 6. Ellen, who has been teaching and performing music for young children for over 40 years, is called the Queen of Jewish Early Childhood Music. Along with Zigzag, a friendly, furry orange puppet, Ellen will share original and traditional secular songs, finger plays, movement songs, and stories with a Jewish flavor.

Register now for Summer Family Jam! The first ten families to RSVP receive an exclusive gift - your choice of never-before-recorded music videos from Ellen or an autographed CD. Class size is limited to 25 families. Classes begin Tuesday, August 3 at 8:30 11:30 a.m. ET / 8:30 a.m. PT and run through the end of August.

Shabbat ShaMorning will air LIVE on August 14. On the remaining three Saturday mornings in August, join Shabbat ShaMorning Storahteller Stephanie Guedalia for an interactive, improvisational story time! Together with our Story Fairy, kids will weave a unique tale that includes their suggestions – dinosaurs, fire trucks, tutus and more. Let your imagination run wild and create a brand-new story every week - because we are different every week! Saturdays in August, 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT.

Closed Captioning provided by Zoom AI.

Love what we’re doing? Make a donation to show your support! The music class series alone is a $90 value – donations of any size are welcome!

About the Author

Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE

Stephanie Fink, MAJCS, RJE (she/her) serves as Associate Director, Network Expansion Experiences Content & Implementation at the URJ. She is a key member of the team designing activities to connect a diverse community of young people and their grown-ups with the Reform movement, its camps and Israel programs, and its social justice work. Stephanie also writes and curates content of interest to parents at ReformJudaism.org.

Stephanie grew up in Cleveland, attended Indiana University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earned her MA at Brandeis as a Wexner Graduate Fellow, and served as a congregational educator for ten years before joining the URJ. A proud alumna of NFTY-Northeast Lakes and former board member of the Association of Reform Jewish Educators, Stephanie and her family reside in Minneapolis, MN.

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