What's Happening in the Torah? Rosh HaShanah Activities for Families
Pursuing Social Justice: Yom Kippur Activities for Families
Creating New Rituals and Tradition for the School Year and the New Year
For children, traditions and rituals are significant; they provide predictability, support, and familiarity, while bringing families together and creating unity and a sense of belonging.
Habari Gani? How My Family is Melding Kwanzaa and Hanukkah Customs
Beyond Apples and Honey
Mom's Honey Cake with Apple Confit
Honey cake is traditionally eaten for Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year—the honey’s sweetness symbolizes our wishes for a sweet year. This is my mother's recipe, which she makes in Israel, freezes, and sends to me in the mail.
How to Write Your Jewish Memoir
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future
As scientists learn more about disease-causing mutations in the Ashkenazi Jewish gene pool, it becomes increasingly urgent for couples in this demographic to undergo genetic testing before having children.
Koret Taps Jewish Family & Life! To Run Prestigious Book Awards
(March 3-San Francisco) -- Koret Foundation Funds today announced a major grant to Jewish Family & Life! (JFL)of Newton, MA, to manage the revitalized Koret International Jewish Book Awards in cooperation with the National Foundation for Jewish Culture (NFJC).
How to Plan a Tu BiSh'vat Seder
Everyone loves to participate in a Pesach seder. But did you know that there is an opportunity to celebrate a different seder about two months earlier?