A comprehensive collection of easy to do and professional looking crafts which can be made in the classroom. Using clear directions, beautiful photography, as well as photographs of the various steps of the project, even the novice teacher will have all of the students become artists.

Presents step-by-step instructions for creating various Judaic decorative and gift items out of common household materials.

A book that will help both novice and experienced hostesses celebrate the Jewish holidays with pleasure and style. Contains suggestions for home decoration, stories and crafts, full menus appropriate to each holiday season, and guidance for prayer. Photos.

Exploring a contemporary Judaism rich with the textures of family, memory, and fellowship, Jodi Eichler-Levine takes readers inside a flourishing American Jewish crafting movement. As she traveled across the country to homes, craft conventions, synagogue knitting circles, and craftivist actions, she joined in the making, asked questions, and contemplated her own family stories. Jewish Americans, many of them women, are creating ritual challah covers and prayer shawls, ink, clay, or wood pieces, and other articles for family, friends, or Jewish charities. But they are doing much more: armed with perhaps only a needle and thread, they are reckoning with Jewish identity in a fragile and dangerous world. The work of these crafters embodies a vital Judaism that may lie outside traditional notions of Jewishness, but, Eichler-Levine argues, these crafters are as much engaged as any Jews in honoring and nurturing the fortitude, memory, and community of the Jewish people. Craftmaking is nothing less than an act of generative resilience that fosters survival. Whether taking place in such groups as the Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework or the Jewish Hearts for Pittsburgh, or in a home studio, these everyday acts of creativity—yielding a needlepoint rabbi, say, or a handkerchief embroidered with the Hebrew words tikkun olam—are a crucial part what makes a religious life.

Presents step-by-step instructions for creating various Judaic decorative and gift items out of common household materials.