Subjects:  1. Body, Mind & Spirit    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Religion    4. Children: Grades 1-2    5. Judaism    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile Religion    8. Religion - Judaism    9. Juvenile Nonfiction / Body, Mind & Spirit    10. Life Skills & Personal Awareness, General Studies   

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Riveting Story of Diversity
This is a companion book to the documentary about the Paper Clip project started at Whitwell Middle School outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the late 1990s.What began as a class to teach diversity to a mostly white southern group of schoolchildren evolved into a project of collecting 6 million paper clips (the clips are historically tied to the Holocaust) to represent the Jews who perished during that dark period.This book is a wonderful story that shows what can be accomplished when children are determined and how a relatively small idea can grow into something significant that can affect millions of people.This one is highly recommended for children of all ages.

Deserves 10 stars
I happened upon a review and ordered the book. When it arrived, I read it with a lump in my throat and my eyes tearing up.My 72 year old mother and I were driving to another town when I started telling her about it.I couldn't get that damn lump out of my throat and pretty soon my voice started quivering and I started crying. She just reached over and held my hand as I got my composure back.I was done, though, I told her she had to read it.She did. Afterward, she took it to one of her clubs and shared it.It's just a 10 minute read, but it sure provides plenty of emotion. I am so glad I happened upon it. A glorious story. Thank you.

The power of a symbol.
Those of us who are horrified by the murderous actions of the Nazis during the Holocaust pray that such a terrible event will never happen again.It is heartening to know that there are a number of middle school children in Whitwell, Tennessee who did their share to raise the consciousness of people from all over the world.Whitwell, a small town of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants with a population of only 1,600, is now internationally famous for its "Paper Clip Project."
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Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - History - General    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 3-4    4. Ethnic relations    5. History - Holocaust    6. Holocaust    7. Holocaust memorials    8. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    9. Juvenile Nonfiction    10. Juvenile literature    11. Religion - Judaism    12. Social Issues - Prejudice & Racism    13. Study and teaching (Elementary    14. Study and teaching (Elementary)    15. Tennesee    16. Whitwell    17. Whitwell (Tenn.)    18. Jewish studies   

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Become an Instant Torah Scholar with this Series!
You can be an instant Torah scholar with this fantastic commentary series!Each chapter is laid out as follows:1.a very brief summary of the parsha; 2. a more in depth overview of the parsha; 3. a synopsis of commentary from the world's most famous Torah scholars, both ancient and modern; 4. major themes of the parsha; 5. compelling questions at the end of the chapter regarding the parsha and commentary. Accessible and thought-provoking
My wife and I recently decided we'd like to give our young children a more explicit introduction to moral values and figured that the torah would be an excellent vehicle (plus it would introduce the kids to torah). The problem was that neither my wife nore I is by any means a torah scholar - I'm a reform Jew and hadn't really done any bible study since hebrew school many, many years ago. I don't know enough to interpret the biblical texts myself and the full Talmud is far more than I was looking for. So, I went looking, in vain I feared, for a volume that would provide an accessible introduction to the bible. Easy to use Commentary
This is one of the best Torah Commentaries for use by people who do not have access to the original Hebrew.It includes a summary of each weekly reading and in depth examination of a few important themes usingtraditional and modern commentaries. I recommend this book for thebeginner and intermediate student to gain access to methods of commentaryand the advanced student who wants ideas and new ways of looking at thetext. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Young Adult Religion    2. Religion    3. Religion - Judaism   

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Emphasizes the spiritual meaning of Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
In the frenzy of preparing for the big day, it can be easy to lose the focus and meaning of a Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Many kids may wonder "What is this really all about? Why am I doing this?" This inspiring, clearly-written book urges kids to think about the deeper meaning of the ceremony and of being a Jew. The emphasis is on spirituality and being mindful of God's presence everyday. I especially liked the section with suggestions and resources for acts of tzedakah as well as little mitzvahs.

Great companion book for Kids
This version of Putting God on the Guest List is the perfect companion to the adult version.We liked it so much that we started a fund at our synagogue so that every child beginning the bar or bat mitzvah processreceives a copy.In an era where the party has become more important thanthe ritual, this book help focus a child on the religious importance of hiscoming of age.A wonderful read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bar mitzvah    2. Bat mitzvah    3. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Religion    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    5. Customs and practices    6. Judaism    7. Juvenile Nonfiction    8. Juvenile literature    9. Religion - Judaism   

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KOSHER BY DESIGN: KIDS IN THE KITCHEN
This is a wonderful new cookbook for kids. The good people at Mesorah Publications have spared no expense creating an accessible and appealing cookbook that is full of fun for both children and adults. The brightly colored design and jump-off-the-page graphics will surely grab any reader.Here's an example of instructions from page 9 (colored green and pink) on how to keep your kitchen kosher: "Be a Kosher label detective...Meat and dairy never mix...Yuk! Creepy crawly things don't belong in kosher food!"
kosher by design kids in the kitchen
this book was sent as a gift to my daughter who lives in israel.she LOVES the book and shares it with her 4 children.they have already made several of the recipes.she said it's an excellent book and would recommend it highly

pretty good!
I am pretty pleased with this cook book, and definitely would reccomend it to others. It says it's for kids,but it feels like it's more for kids 10-13, and not little kids. Enjoy!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    2. Children: Grades 2-3    3. Cookery, Jewish    4. Cooking & Food    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Juvenile literature    7. Religion - Judaism   

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A wonderful first book about Hanukkah
This book is an ideal choice for very young children, as it portrays a fun and interesting view of Hanukkah that is very much in keeping with a small child's own perceptions of the holiday, namely, candle lighting, dreidel playing and latke eating. The story is simply told and the illustrations are colorful and reminiscent of Eric Carle's work. It is a quick reading book that my two and half year old enjoyed a great deal.

Wonderful introduction to Hanukkah for preschoolers
Sammy's First Hanukkah not only introduces preschoolers to Hanukkah in a way that is right on their level, it also reviews numbers and colors as well.A perfect book for the holidays. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    2. Children: Kindergarten    3. Fiction    4. General    5. Hanukkah    6. Jews    7. Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc.    8. Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Festivals / Jewish    9. Spiders    10. Animals - Insects, Spiders, etc    11. Children's 4-8    12. Fiction dealing with multiculturalism    13. Holidays & Festivals - Jewish    14. Judaism    15. Juvenile fiction   

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For REALLY young children
I bought this book for my 5-year-old, and even she found it too simplistic.She was looking for more information than the book provided.It's better for my son, who is 2.

A great relief for parents who are inundated with �why� ques
If you have one of those kids who asks "why" about everything, then this is the book for you.This book answers common question like "Why do we play dreidel?" and "Why do we plant trees?"as well as hard ones like "Why do we fast on Yom Kippur?". ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    2. Customs and practices    3. Fasts and feasts    4. General    5. Judaism    6. Juvenile literature    7. Questions and answers    8. Religion   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Religion    2. Children: Grades 4-6    3. Judaism    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Juvenile Religion    6. Juvenile literature    7. Religion - Judaism    8. Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / Judaism   

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The Best Autobiography by Far! by Sammy K. 4th Grade
I am Jewish, and I learned a lot from this book. I learned about life in Warsaw, and about the time period around World War I. It shows how that time compares to this, and how much more we have now than back then. Lots of people take electric lights for granted. This book shows what it was like to live through freezing weather, hunger, and stress about war.
The childhood of a master story- teller
Singer just has it. These vignettes of his childhood do not have the emotional power of his greatest stories but they are rich with life, insight and humor. And somehow he tells stories even when he is making simple descriptions of his early life. This work too tells the pain and poverty of his childhood and the difficulty of his parents' lives. It is too a tribute to a world - gone .
I read this for a 6th grade book report and loved it!
This book is a very good read for anyone and everyone that likes to read about foreign culture-- or even if you don't!I usually detest biographies and book reports, but reading this book made it FUN! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1904-    2. 1904-1991    3. Authors, Yiddish    4. Biography    5. Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage    6. Biography & Autobiography - Literary    7. Childhood and youth    8. Children's Books/Young Adult Biography    9. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    10. Homes and haunts    11. Jews    12. Poland    13. Religion - Judaism    14. Singer, Isaac Bashevis,    15. Warsaw    16. Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / Customs, Traditions, Anthropology   

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Wonderful
When our first child was five, she asked us for her very own prayer book. This was the one we chose, and it has been wonderful both for her and her brother.
One of our favorites!
As the foreward of this book says, daily Jewish prayers instill values in children.When we say a prayer before we eat, children understand that it's important to be thankful for what we have, including food on the table.When we pray before going to sleep for our safety, kids learn to be thankful for their lives.The bottom line:we love this book.It has prayers for greeting the new day, and bedtime prayers.When our beloved pet cat passed away this week, we opened the book to the prayer for mourners.By coincidence, the page included an illustration of an elderly woman with a cat!The words and illustrations are right on target for children, and parents will appreciate it, too.I highly recommend this book, and plan to buy it as baby gifts for family and friends. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Benediction    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Kindergarten    4. Jewish children    5. Judaism    6. Liturgy    7. Prayer-books and devotions    8. Religion - Prayer & Prayerbooks    9. Texts   

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Defining moments in the lives of thirteen Jewish Americans
When young readers look at the faces on the cover of "In the Promised Land: Lives of Jewish Americans," they should immediately recognize Steven Spielberg.Depending on how much they now about history and the news they might recognize Harry Houdini and Ruth Bader Ginsberg from the faces on the cover, and maybe Judith Resnick.But they will not recognize most of the faces any more than they will recognize most of the names of the thirteen distinguished Jewish Americans for whom author Doreen Rappaport and illustrators Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu have picked for this book.For example, I recognize the name Jonas Salk, but I do not know his face the way I do Albert Einstein.
A picturebook for grades 2-4
Here's a new approach to biography: a retelling of pivotal moments in the lives of notable Jewish Americans in In The Promised Land: Lives Of Jewish Americans, a picturebook for grades 2-4, embellished with drawings by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. 'Notable' doesn't necessarily translate to 'famous', as these stories show: among the featured are frontier tailor Jacob W. Davis, who invented the durable overall design Levi Strauss came to sell, Harry Houdini, master of magic, and Asser Levy, who fought against unfair treatment of Jewish citizens in Amsterdam - in 1654. Thirteen extraordinary Jewish people are treated to one-page detailed biographical sketches.
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Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage    3. Biography & Autobiography - Ethnic    4. Biography & Autobiography - General    5. Biography & Autobiography - Religious    6. Children's 4-8 - Biography / Autobiography    7. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    8. Children: Grades 2-3    9. History - United States/General    10. Jews    11. Juvenile Nonfiction    12. Juvenile literature    13. Religion - Judaism    14. United States    15. Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religious   

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Too Simplistic
This book was too easy for my 5-year-old.She wanted more information than this book provided.It was better for my 2-year-old.

Holidays from season to season
This book is an excellent way for me to introduce the holidays throughout the year to my young children.The book sequences the holidays throughout the seasons of the year, so it's also a good tool for teaching about the seasons and when the holidays occur.My four-year old often enjoys this book as a bedtime story, anytime of the year.This is a good, general reference for all the Jewish holidays. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8 - Judaism    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Children: Kindergarten    5. Customs and practices    6. Fasts and feasts    7. Holidays & Celebrations - Other, Religious    8. Holidays & Festivals - Jewish    9. Jewish holidays    10. Judaism    11. Juvenile Nonfiction    12. Juvenile literature    13. Religion - Judaism   

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Cute
Sammy Spider was fast asleep in his family web up on the Shapiro's ceiling. A warm spring sun shown through the window, and suddenly a loud noise wakened him. A very good book for young children about Passover
This book is very good for young children of all ages. It teaches the children in a fun way why we celebrate Passover and the history about it.

Awsome Mrs. Rouss!!!!!
Mrs. Rouss, I know this sounds hard to belive, but I was in your pre school class at Beth Tofilah in Baltimore! I loved your book! Very creative! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Animals - InsectsSpidersetc.    2. Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    4. Children: Grades 1-2    5. Concepts - Size & Shape    6. Fiction    7. Holidays & Celebrations - Passover    8. Holidays & Festivals - Jewish    9. Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Insects, Spiders, etc.    10. Juvenile Fiction / Holidays & Festivals / Jewish    11. Passover    12. Seder    13. Spiders    14. Animals - Insects, Spiders, etc    15. Children's 4-8    16. Judaism    17. Juvenile fiction   

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A great book for ages 5 to 10.
Mordecai Gerstein's Queen Esther The Morning Star will reach ages 5-10 with its involving story of Esther, who must hide the fact that she's Jewish in order to marry the king. When the king decides all the Jews in the kingdom will have to be destroyed, it's up to Queen Esther to revealher secret and save them. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bible stories    2. Bible stories, English    3. Children's 4-8 - Bibles    4. Children: Grades 3-4    5. Juvenile Fiction    6. O.T    7. O.T. Esther    8. Purim    9. Religion - Bible - Stories    10. Religious - Jewish    11. Fiction    12. Judaism    13. Juvenile Fiction / Religious / Jewish   

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I love this book
I have most of the Sammy books, and I love reading them to my little sisters. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 2-3    4. Fiction    5. General    6. Holidays & Festivals - Jewish    7. Jews    8. Juvenile Fiction    9. Religious - Jewish    10. Spiders    11. Sukkot    12. United States    13. Judaism   

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Great Bible
I thought this book was great - it was really colorful. The overall feel reminded me of the book "Now I Know the Ten Commandments". I recommend it to anyone.

Better title would be "The Jewish Bible for *Christian* children"
Written from a christian perpective.Several references to Jesus, and the "Old testament" not only in the introduction - examples - the patriarchs live 1500 years before Jesus.There is a painting depicting Jesus being circumcised (as stated in the caption.Other inaccuracies such as the hebrew letters "yod, hei vav, hei"is usually written as "Yahweh" - um, only Jehovahs wittnesses people!One story suggests a sacrifice of a young woman which would never have been permitted. (Judges 11)Torah commentary teaches she lived in seculsion (the sacrafice being she never married or had children)
Annoyingly written from a Christian perspective, but...
I read the others Readers' Reviews, and was also taken aback by the stated Christian perspective in a book supposedly geared towards Jewish families. I had a chance to flip through this book, however, and while the Christian perspective is annoying (especially for someone trying to raise a Jewish child in a town where we are a minority), the illustrations, maps and charts somewhat redeem the few Christian references in the text. In typical DK fashion, this book's annotations provide an good overview of the Tanakh, and tell the stories in ways that are neither overly simplified nor overly florid, as found in many biblical texts written for young people. A parent could choose to point out to the child that we live in a world with many religions, and that there are other religions whose roots share a common history with ours. I do agreed, however, that it is unfortunate to find such references in a purportedly "Jewish" book.
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Subjects:  1. Bible stories    2. Bible stories, English    3. Children's 9-12 - Bibles    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Religion    5. Children: Grades 4-6    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. O.T    8. Religion - Bible - General    9. Religion - Bible - Stories    10. Religion - Bibles - General    11. Juvenile Nonfiction / Religion / Judaism   

Subjects:  1. Animals - InsectsSpidersetc.    2. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Concepts - Senses & Sensation    5. Fiction    6. General    7. Israel    8. Juvenile Fiction    9. People & Places - Middle East    10. Senses and sensation    11. Spiders    12. Judaism   

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In a town of fools, how can there be wise men?
This is a fun book. The ten stories that are included in the book are amusing and easy to read in a way that is very attractive to children. The stories of Chelm have not failed to get a laugh (sometimes a little giggle and sometimes something more) each time that we have read them. However, the book goes one step beyond the stories themselves. Every story is followed by 3-4 questions that you can ask your children after reading the story. The questions can be helpful in prodding your child to think about some of the deeper meanings behind the story as well as to measure their understanding of what makes the people of Chelm foolish yet, ultimately, wise in their simple ways. This book is a keeper.

excelent
a great book about jewish stories and excelent to share with your children. a great way to incoorperate ones faith into a story you can share with your child ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    2. Children's stories, Hebrew    3. Children: Grades 1-2    4. Folklore    5. Jewish legends    6. Jews    7. Juvenile Fiction    8. Legends, Jewish    9. Religious - Jewish    10. Short Stories    11. Judaism   

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Wonderful Shabbat book for preschoolers
This book introduces young children to Shabbat as a young spider and his mother watch a family prepare for Shabbat.The colors are bright and vivid and the text is clear and easily accessible to young children.Concepts introduced include sunrise-sunset,shabbat preparation and family togetherness.Don't miss the challah recipe on the last page. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    2. Children: Grades 3-4    3. Customs and practices    4. Fiction    5. General    6. Jews    7. Judaism    8. Sabbath    9. United States   

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    2. Children's poetry, American    3. Children: Grades 2-3    4. Fasts and feasts    5. Holidays & Celebrations - Other, Religious    6. Jewish religious poetry, Ameri    7. Jewish religious poetry, American    8. Judaism    9. Juvenile Fiction    10. Juvenile poetry    11. Poetry - General    12. Religion    13. Religion - Judaism    14. Religious - Jewish    15. Numbers & counting    16. Religion & Beliefs