Monthly Archives: October 2010

Looking for information on Jewish Parenting?

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Are you raising Jewish kids? Are you an important adult in the life of Jewish kids (even if not their parent)? If so, you may be interested in http://kveller.com or their twitter feed http://twitter.com/kveller.

The site is put together by the same people who created http://myjewishlearning.com, a site which I’ve utilized and referenced for many years.

There are quite a few parenting blogs in cyberspace.  As a non-parent, I don’t keep an extensive list.   A do read blogs by a few friends who write about being Jewish parents:

ImaBima

Frume Sarah

Being a Jew in C-U

May parenting, teaching and interactions with children always be filled with respect, honor, joy, patience and an eye for the future.

Shavuah tov – a good new week

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As shabbat ended a few hours ago a new week began, filled with the potential and possibilities in front of us each week. What will the week bring and what will we accomplish with it? We will plan, we will execute and we will change when some things go as expected and others do not.

This week’s Torah portion was Bereshit, the first portion of the new Torah reading cycle. This morning our congregation read the story of creation in Genesis 1:1-2:3.

Following lunch we discussed the juxtaposition of the creation narratives in Genesis 1-2:3 and 2-3. We examined the perspectives and styles of the texts, the role of gender in the texts, the interpretation gender roles in the stories, the “job” of the snake, the blessings (and challenges) of Eve and Adam’s decision to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.