Category: Organization

Planning your trip to Israel (part 1: flights and ground transport)

Planning a trip to Israel can be tricky. Since I just did it, I’m sharing the resources I found with you! Most of us who live outside of Israel have to get on at least one plane to get there. The main airport is the Ben Gurion airport just outside of Tel Aviv, Israel, airport …

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Traveling with kids (Part 6: Away for Shabbat)

This post is part of the traveling with kids series. Check out part 1 (airplane travel), part 2 (your in-vehicle bag), part 3 (packing), part 4 (while you’re gone and making unpacking easy), and part 5 (safety). Sometimes, people go away to someone else’s house or a program or Shabbaton where Shabbat will be prepared by the host. Yay! …

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Traveling with kids (part 5: safety)

This post is part of the traveling with kids series. If you missed it, here are the links for the traveling with kids series. Check out part 1 (airplane travel), part 2 (your in-vehicle bag), part 3 (packing), part 4 (while you’re gone and making unpacking easy), part 5 (safety), and part 6 (away for Shabbat). Our children are precious …

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Traveling: leaving the house checklist

Do you ever get halfway to where you are going and wonder if you locked the door – or more scary, if the stove is off? Or heard a horror story from someone who arrived home from a trip to find their entire freezer of expensive meat defrosted? I have a checklist for leaving the …

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Traveling with kids (Part 4: while you’re gone and making unpacking easy!)

This post is part of the traveling with kids series.If you missed it, here are the links for the traveling with kids series. Check out part 1 (airplane travel), part 2 (your in-vehicle bag), part 3 (packing), part 4 (while you’re gone and making unpacking easy), part 5 (safety), and part 6 (away for Shabbat). OK, you’ve packed and …

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“Emergency” Shabbat to go kit

There are times that one of us needs to be away for Shabbat, and sometimes with little or no notice! We have an “emergency” Shabbat-to-go kit to help us handle this. It’s everything you could need for Shabbat in a glamorous container – an old wipes tub… This is packed and ready to go, and …

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Traveling with kids (Part 3: packing)

If you missed it, here are the links for the traveling with kids series. Check out part 1 (airplane travel), part 2 (your in-vehicle bag), part 3 (packing), part 4 (while you’re gone and making unpacking easy), part 5 (safety), and part 6 (away for Shabbat). I remember when I had my first child. I had a huge diaper …

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Making vegetables easy for kids to eat!

We all want our kids to eat their veggies. But sometimes, it can be hard to get to them! (This is what was left of a cucumber and carrot bowl I set up while I went to get the camera…it got raided!) Here’s what I do: When I bring home veggies from a store, I …

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Travel with kids: part 2 (short trips: your in-vehicle kit)

With the season of travel coming up, going places with the kids is on my mind. If you missed it, here are the links for the traveling with kids series. Check out part 1 (airplane travel), part 2 (your in-vehicle bag), part 3 (packing), part 4 (while you’re gone and making unpacking easy), part 5 (safety), and part 6 (away …

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Traveling with kids (part 1: air travel)

With vacation and trips coming up, I thought to gather some tricks, tips, and products that will help. As you may remember, I travel regularly with my 4 young kids, including many different countries and continents – this summer, we’re looking at at least 3 countries in addition to the one we live in (and …

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