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JFS Distributes Toys for Needy Families
5+ hour, 50+ min ago (411+ words) Two hundred'San Diego families working'to make ends meet now have presents to give'their children thanks to a toy drive organized by'Jewish Family Service of San Diego'in collaboration with interfaith partners and community members....
Children’s Book: Doing Good Deeds Dissipates Personal Feelings of Gloom – San Diego Jewish World
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (179+ words) SAN DIEGO " Kai, an elementary school student, is constantly disappointed." When he wants sunny days, it rains; when he wants pancakes for breakfast, his dad serves him oatmeal, and when he wants to play soccer in school, the teacher choses…...
A Creative Way to Celebrate Chanukah with Children
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (260+ words) SAN DIEGO "A family vacations for several days at the beach at the start of Chanukah, but in their haste they forgot to pack a menorah. They have, however, packed the Chanukah candles. So they improvise each night of their…...
Approximately 300 Students Attend Hillel's 'Welcome Back' Party
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (302+ words) SAN DIEGO " Watching nearly 300 students schmooze, eat, laugh, and celebrate the beginning of the school year at Hillel of San Diego's Welcome Back BBQ was pretty much on brand for how we do things. Big! Bold! Fun! Connected! "I was…...
A Secret Circumcision in the Former Soviet Union Contrasts with How Freely Jews May Practice Our Religion in the U.S., Israel
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (596+ words) When my turn came to speak, I said: " Tell us more, " my friends asked. " There's a famous story by the Soviet writer Isaac Babel, Karl-Yankel, published in 1931. It tells of a trial of a mohel (the man who performs circumcisions…...
Children's Story Relates Imaginative Plans to Speed Little Brother Home from the NICU
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (309+ words) SAN DIEGO " Max, born prematurely, had to spend some time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), causing his creative sibling Louise to become impatient. She wanted badly for her role of "big sister" to begin already. Staying with grandma…...
Many Lessons Packed into Charming Story about a Girl and Her Pets
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (319+ words) When Yoshi's parents veto buying a pet dog, she doesn't sulk." Playing in her back yard, she finds and adopts as pets a lizard she names "Laggie" (which is short for lagartijo, the Spanish word for little lizard) and a…...
Jewish Biography: Samuel Marshak, Soviet Children's Writer
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (655+ words) His poems were enjoyed by all Soviet children. Marshak's poetry for children is a world of goodness, fun, fairy tales, original images and ringing, beautiful rhymes." He was an innovator, the creator of energetic, major, fast, inventive, cheerful and witty…...