Tag: Children
Library of Congress honors Israeli literary program
The U.S. Library of Congress has announced that Keren Grinspoon Israel (KGI, the Grinspoon Israel Foundation) has been selected as a 2020 Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program Best Practice Honoree.
It is the first in Israel to...
Last call for summer supper!
Even though I live in the Northeastern United States, where the coronavirus hit early and hard this spring, but is relatively in check for the moment, life is still much quieter than normal. Vacations...
Jewish music bigs Benny Friedman and Mordechai Shapiro belt it out for charity
More than 5,000 people tuned in to the virtual “Battle of the Singers,” featuring well-known Jewish entertainers Benny Friedman and Mordechai Shapiro, and sponsored by the Orthodox Union’s Yachad leading organization for individuals with...
Online project in Britain sets up learning between students and Holocaust survivors
The United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum has launched an online program that allows schoolchildren at home during the coronavirus pandemic to ask questions to Holocaust survivors.
Connecting the survivors, many of whom are...
Reform movement cancels summer camps, Israel trips out of coronavirus worries
As some states begin to reopen for business, a number of Jewish summer camps have announced that they will be closed for the season because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Union for Reform Judaism released...
Museum of Jewish Heritage offers free online educational resources for those at home
New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is offering several online resources for parents, teachers and students as the museum remains temporarily closed in accordance with COVID-19 social-distancing restrictions.
For parents...
Israeli parents get a crash course in homeschooling
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shut down the country’s schools and universities until at least after Passover, Israeli parents, like their counterparts in other countries shut down by the COVID-19 virus, suddenly found...
Loss of innocence: International rights of children in war zones
One would think that in 2020, the majority of people would agree that there is something special about the innocence of children that needs to be protected and preserved for as long as possible....
Is Your Child too Glued to a Screen? Here’s How it Could Affect their...
A new study shows that one in every two households in Israel has at least one child who wears glasses and that 17% of them are under the age of 6 and 70% are under the...
Give it up for the (Israeli) kids: Hanukkah and winter drives
The staff and volunteers at Yad Ezra V’Shulamit’s children’s center in Jerusalem began noticing that one little girl only came to the after-school program every other day.
And when they asked her why, she told them.
“It’s because...