HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Our newest Celebrating Holidays at Home Guide is published on our synagogue's website - Celebrating Shavuot. You can access it by clicking here. This resource takes you through the steps of welcoming in this spring holiday into your homes with the appropriate brachot (blessings) and rituals. The final page includes some ideas on fun Shavuot activities to do with your family, including some story books to read at this time of the year.
I recently discovered Challah Crumbs, a great new website created by mothers in North America and Israel, offering you and your family Jewish activities, crafts, and learning. It looks like each month there will be a different theme - this month, appropriately, it is Shavuot, and we have Shabbat to look forward to next month. Some of the Shavuot ideas that I think are particularly fun:
- In the Celebrating Shavuot guide (mentioned above), is information about bikkurim, in which we celebrate the agricultural background of Shavuot by picking first fruits. Around the DC area, one of the first crops to pick are strawberries (you can find local pick-your-own farms at this website - www.pickyourown.org), so here is a fun recipe for strawberry soup!
- Looking for an art activity? Emphasize the tie to the land of Israel during Shavuot by making magnets of the Shivat HaMinim - the seven species described as being native to the land of Israel during Biblical times (find out more here).
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