Posts Tagged ‘Rosh Hashanah’
Book Review | The Secret Shofar of Barcelona
by Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Score: 4
Illustrated by Doug Chayka.
© 2009, KarBen Publishing.
The author looks to a Sephardic legend for this well-written story about a Spanish converso (secret Jew) who cleverly enables his secret community of Jews to hear the sound of the shofar at Rosh Hashanah. Set in Barcelona, during the Spanish Inquisition, Ms. Greene creates a story that [...]
Summertime and the Livin’ is Easy?
08/10/10
DuBose Heyward wrote the lyrics to, “Summertime”, with George and Ira Gershwin providing the melody: “Summertime and the livin’ is easy…”
They lied.
There has been no easy livin’ in my home this summer. I have been working two jobs, toiling over “staging” my house for sale, trying to keep up with my reading and worrying over the fact that I have not posted a blog since May. MAY!
I view summer as a time when I can accomplish all the things I could not do during the school year. Unfortunately, I fail to realize that I still have to do all the tasks I am responsible for during the school year. I somehow forget I am not a student. I do not get a summer vacation. I still have to work, take care of the house and the family. All of those accomplishments I put off until summer, thinking I would have more time, are still sitting in a pile waiting for me – staring at me.
So here I sit, on erev Elul, knowing the shofar is going to blow tomorrow morning to signal me to begin considering my accomplishments of the past year while looking to perhaps change my behavior for the upcoming year. My pile of “to-do’s” may still be sitting there when the Rosh Hashanah shofar blows signaling the New Year has arrived…but at least I will have written a blog or two.
Happy Reading,
Kathy B.
Book Review | Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride
by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Score: 4.5
This is a beautiful Holiday book combining Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Israeli History into a delightful picture book. This is the story of the first train to run between Jaffa and Jerusalem. In simple prose, we learn that the train left Jaffa and picked up festival foods on its way to Jerusalem – apples, [...]
Book Review | New Year at the Pier: A Rosh Hashanah Story
by April Halprin Wayland
Score: 4
Having lived near Manhattan Beach, CA I could picture this story in my mind as I read it. Striking, warm, colorful artwork is used to perfectly illustrate the time of year and the celebration of Tashlich at the pier on the beach. The story is beautifully told as Ms. Wayland describes the difficulty in remembering [...]
