tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807022363279638349.post1637778419360148170..comments2023-12-03T20:14:00.908-06:00Comments on Ima on (and off) the Bima: Real-Life Jewish Parenting: What's plaguing you?Phyllis Sommerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16654761832717723000noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807022363279638349.post-59355229943710401742009-01-28T12:18:00.000-06:002009-01-28T12:18:00.000-06:00When my family and I moved from Israel to Virginia...When my family and I moved from Israel to Virginia my older daughter brought a particularly stong case of lice with her. I'm not quite sure what the symbolism of it was, perhaps that we were leaving Israel, or perhaps that whatever plagued us--my husband and I--there would follow us to America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807022363279638349.post-713927736495031002009-01-25T15:53:00.000-06:002009-01-25T15:53:00.000-06:00This weekend my 5th graders and I spend over an ho...This weekend my 5th graders and I spend over an hour dividing up and acting out (costumes, props, the works) the first part of this parsha -<BR/><BR/>The funniest things:<BR/>In their skits, Gd was doing yoga while calling Moses on a cell phone from the center of the burning bush (Moshe's phone was pink, btw, not red as one might expect!) . . . <BR/><BR/>The part of the story that interested them the most, though, was what might have happened to Pharaoh that he just didn't get that people should be free . . .or that he just wasn't willing to have life be a little harder for himself so that it would be so much better for so many others.<BR/><BR/>It was an amazing hour - the highlight of Shabbat . . .<BR/><BR/>until we made Havdallah together, me, the 5th graders, and their families . . . but that's another story . . .Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15741325467027799330noreply@blogger.com