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August 12, 2025July 29, 2025Rosh Hashanah Synagogue Life Young Children

Make Your Own Apples and Honey Shakers for a Sweet New Year

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May 1, 2026February 19, 2025Songleader's Guide Synagogue Life Tot Shabbat

Transform Your Tot Shabbat: 10 Books to Elevate Your Impact

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February 7, 2026February 8, 2025Synagogue Life Tot Shabbat Young Children

5 ChatGPT Prompts to Strengthen Family Engagement Strategy

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Tot Shabbat Matters for Grown-Ups Too

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Experience the Joy of Tot Shabbat: Untapped Potential

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Dr. Emily Celebrates nurtures Jewish identities and strengthens Jewish community by empowering songleaders and their institutions to create joyful, intergenerational engagement through music.

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Summer camp is a great time to refresh your repert Summer camp is a great time to refresh your repertoire of "evergreen" Jewish songs you share, David Melech, with these movement is definitely part of that canon- but the movement are complex for early childhood...see how I break it down to make it more manageable for little learners. Modeling Music on Mondays!
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Preparing to share my next batch of tunes- and I'm Preparing to share my next batch of tunes- and I'm extra nervous this time, it feels very vulnerable to share these songs that I composed largely to benefit my and my kiddos as we journey through this world...we all are working on developing our social emotional skills! IF you want to preview and review some tunes, let me know and i'll send you a link!
Rabbis, cantors, leaders of "Tot Shabbat"...help? Rabbis, cantors, leaders of "Tot Shabbat"...help?
My next album is a big one, I want to equip other songleaders to approach "Tot Shabbat" and family engagement in Jewish community in joyful, relevant, and developmentally appropriate ways though music and movement, Pray and Play draws on years of lived practice designing participatory prayer and decades of formal and informal research. The song sequence matters deeply and I'm struggling to land on one and I really want to get this right. 
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