Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

October 27, 2016

School Vouchers, Day Schools, and Fun Holidays Can Get Children Excited about Judaism

Not High Holy Day services.

For many American Jewish children, the first taste of Judaism comes at High Holy Day services—which are long and, to most children and many adults, boring. It would be much better, argued Peter Beinart in a recent essay, to introduce children to such holidays as Sukkot and Purim, whose practices include, respectively, eating outdoors and dressing in costumes. Evelyn Gordon deems this analysis “unfeasible”:

SaveGift