Bring your family together with fun activities anchored in Jewish values and join a community of families seeking to build a more compassionate world starting at home. For families of children in grades K-3, Jewish Life in Your Family Life provides structured activities for children and their grown-ups to join together. From art projects to science experiments, cooking demos to movement activities, Jewish Life in Your Family Life offers a chance for the whole family to try something new, have fun, and make memories together.
Beginning Fall 2020, log on for live virtual experiences weekly on alternating Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:00 pm ET. Each month, experiences focus on a theme, a character trait (middah) supporting compassionate growth. Traits include curiosity, gratitude, perseverance, joy, and respect.
November Middah: Chesed/Kindness
Live Activities
November: Kindness/Chesed
Kindness is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Some acts of kindness can be small or easy, and others can be big or difficult to do, but all are important. This month we will practice being kind to our families, our friends, and even to strangers!
Everybody Has a Bucket
Thursday, November 5
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM EDT
UGH is how it feels when our bucket is low. AHH is how it feels when it’s all filled up. Two of our most-important-in-the-whole-wide-world jobs are adding kindness to other people’s buckets and welcoming kindness into our own. Oh, what a world it could be in which everyone has a full bucket!
Collecting and Casting Kindness
Tuesday, November 10
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT
Let's explore how practicing kindness is like practicing magic! We'll talk about examples of kindness, and how we can be kind to others. We'll even have the chance to create some reminders of kindness for ourselves and to send some kindness out to others who have been kind to us!
Cool to Be Kind
Thursday, November 19
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM EDT
It's cool to be kind to others- and to yourself! How can we take the kindness we learn from our relationships with our friends and family and make sure we're doing the same for ourselves? Let's learn how to give ourselves a little self-kindness every day!
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New virtual experiences are being added all the time! For the current schedule of activities, sign up for RJ on the Go.
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