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Grandparents enjoyed finding new PJ Library books to take home and making teatime memories together with their grandchildren 🍵📚💕 Thank you for hosting!

Tell the bubbies, zaydes, nanas, papas, and all the grandparents! Spend an afternoon with the grandkids and pick out award-winning Jewish children's books to take home for free from PJ Library! Build your Jewish library for and memories with your little loves ages 0-7. This program is open to the community Sunday, November 2nd from 12:15-2:15pm 📚🍵 RSVP at jewishdallas.org/event/pj-library-grandparents-tea/

We're out here at the Splash Into Shabbat event giving away PJ Library totes! Shabbat shalom shalom, friends!

We love seeing friends and making new ones at community events! Find us this week at for FREE PJ Library tote bags at Friday Family Fun! 😍📚🏖️

Hosting a Seder with young ones? has a "cheat sheet" to their family hagaddah and many more resources to make this Passover memorable! Visit pjlibrary.org/passover 📚 Chag Pesach Sameach!

Looking for a book to introduce Hanukkah to your kid's classroom? Let PJ Library help! 🕎🌟🎁

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Sukkot starts Wednesday evening October 16! This Jewish holiday is a full week long and also full of joy, gratitude, and temporary huts. PJ Library has lots of age-appropriate books to share the traditions of this harvest festival.

Do you have a favorite Sukkot story you love to read?

Today was Rosh Hashanah story time at a Plano public library with families school-aged children! Families enjoyed apples & honey snacks, making holiday cards, and singing "Dip the Apple in the Honey " 🍎🍯🐝

We appreciate our PJ Dads every day! How did you spend the weekend?

What's Jewish about Father's Day?

According to the Jewish understanding of the fifth commandment, honoring parents happens not just on one day, but every day. Does that mean the third Sunday in June is an unnecessary holiday for Jewish families in the US?

While honoring our parents is an everyday mitzvah, Father’s Day gives us the opportunity to refocus our appreciation. We love the way these Jewish sources explain it:

"Our relationships with those commandments, like our relationships with our parents, can themselves become hollow routines that fail to inspire and evoke our best behavior. That’s where the brilliance of Father’s Day comes in. Special days, days like Father’s Day, break routines; they shake up the norms and demand special attention." --Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, New York Jewish Week

"On this Father's Day, let us honor the working-class men who form the bulk of stay-at-home dads. Let’s honor the q***r dads, who now must not pretend to be straight to become fathers. Let me honor my own dad who confounded rural Wisconsin by rarely being seen without his own children in tow." --Jesse Bacon, Kveller

Let's learn about Shavuot! When you have young children, three Jewish holidays get most of the holiday street cred with the kids: Passover, Purim, and Hanukkah. But while these holidays might have more cultural awareness around them, the holiday of Shavuot has plenty of traditions that make it appealing for younger participants, too.

Shavuot, which means “weeks,” comes seven weeks after Passover, a period known as the Omer. On the Jewish calendar, Shavuot is the one of the three pilgrimage festivals, special holidays when families would travel to the Temple. The other two are Sukkot in the fall and Passover in the spring.

Modern day celebrations don’t include a trek to the site of the ancient Temple; instead they tie in to the summer season and enjoying the outdoors. Whether you're used to observing Shavuot or ready to celebrate for the first time, here are a few easy, new-to-your family traditions:
*Stay up late
*Camp out (or in your living room)
*Enjoy a cheesy dessert
*Take a hike
*Make a nature craft (like a sun catcher or flower crown)

PJ Library families, what's your favorite story about Shavuot?

What is your family up to this weekend? If you're looking to build your community, our friends at JBorhood are hosting get-togethers, one for grandparents and another for families of school-aged children. Learn about these events and more Jborhood family fun coming up in June: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=%5BUNIQID%5D&u=f767bae6abfa2adf58c90bfe8&id=b86030f3ad