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Today is the birthday of the worldOn the birthday of the world, all of God’s creatures pass before Him as He asks whether each has been the best giraffe, or bee, or child they could be, helping to make the world a better place.
Rashi’s daughters
When the chickens went on strike : a Rosh Hashanah taleA Jewish boy living in Russia learns a lesson from the village chickens at the time of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Sophie and the shofar : a new year’s storySophie and her cousin Sasha are usually the best of friends but their relationship runs into trouble when Sophie accuses Sasha of taking her father’s shofar, a special horn that is used to usher in the Jewish New Year.
- Sophie and the shofar : a new year’s story
Sophie and her cousin Sasha are usually the best of friends but their relationship runs into trouble when Sophie accuses Sasha of taking her father’s shofar, a special horn that is used to usher in the Jewish New Year.
Gershon’s monster : a story for the Jewish New YearWhen his sins threaten the lives of his beloved twin children, a Jewish man finally repents of his wicked ways.
Dreams in the golden country : the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girlTwelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family’s life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Sound the shofar! : a story for Rosh Hashanah and Yom KippurUncle Jake gets to blow the shofar twice within ten days, as the family celebrates first Rosh Hashanah and then Yom Kippur.
To life! : a celebration of Jewish being and thinking
A Torah commentary for our times
