COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM
Meet
The Silly
Family
For Children ages 3-6
Few families are more fun to
invite into your home than
the Sillies.
First, ask your son or
daughter to draw a family
showing Mr. and Mrs. Silly
and their children. Next, cut
about 10 slips of paper and
write on each a Jewish word
or phrase like gefilte fish or
"Oy vey!" or aleph-bet. Write
a short story about the Silly
Family, leaving enough
blanks to correspond to the
number of word strips you
made.
For example: "Mr. and
Mrs. Silly and their six chil-
dren and their dog (blank)
went out one day. They de-
cided to have a picnic with
(blank). The first thing they
saw at the park was (blank).
`Oh my,' the youngest Silly
child, (blank), said, 'That
looks like (blank)!' Fold all
the strips and place into a
hat or bowl. Then pull them
out, one by one, and use to
fill the blanks.
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I And Places
I
Tidbits from
Jewish history.
he Exodus 1947 was a
ship of 4,500 Jewish
refugees who had sur-
vived Nazi Germany.
It arrived in Haifa in July 1947,
but British authorities refused it
entry and sent the ship back to
France. When the passengers
would not disembark, they were
physically removed from the ship
and taken to Germany. By 1948,
however, all had arrived (many of
them illegally) in the new State
of Israel.
Parsha Project
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The coming week's Torah portion,
Numbers 30:2-36:13, is Matot-Mas-
ey. The double parsha includes a de-
sty, People put all
tailed itinerary of the Jews' journey
kinds
of
things in cholent,
from Egypt to the Land of Israel.
but
just
about
everybody
Make a map showing the journey.
starts with beans. Here's a
Cut out the following place names
gift you can make to give to
Fill the`ja r
and paste them on a sheet of paper or
guests before you go to;their diffterent kin
cardboard. Then, draw a line from
place to place, going in order. Try us-
ing different colored crayons or markers for each route.
21. Charada
1. Ra'mses
11. Refidim
22. Mak'haylot
2. Sukkot
12. Midbar Sinai
23. Tachat
3. Eytam
13. Dofka
24. Tarach
4. Pi-Hachirot
14. Chatzerot
25. Mitka
5. Mara
15. Ritma
26. Chasmona
6. Eylim
16. Rimon Peretz
27. Moserot
7. Yam Suf (the Red Sea)
17. Livna
28. B'nei Yaakan
8. Midbar Sin
18. Rise
29. Chor Hagidgad
9. Dofka
19. Keheyla
30. Yotba
10. Alush
20. Mount Shefer
31. Avrona
32. Etzyon Geyer
33. Kadesh
34. Mount Hor
35. Tzalmona
36. Punon
37. Ovot
38. Iyey Avarim
39. Divon Gad
40. Almon Divlataima
41. Mountains of Avarim
42. Plains of Moab
Don't worry if the story
you end up with has a dog
named Chopped Liver or
Grandma washing her hair
with a piece of matzah. In
fact - that's the point! The
more ridiculous, the more
fun it will be!