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Sinai Sensation!

Jewish Children’s Museum Takes Kids to Sinai (Sundays May 18-June 15)

Children are donning their goggles and flexing their muscles for Sinai Sensation, a feature exhibit at the Jewish Children’s Museum in honor of the pending holiday of Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Torah. Children are invited to retrace the steps of the Jewish People’s exodus from Egypt, experience the giving of the Torah and get up close with ancient Torah scrolls.

Blending with the normal Museum tour, Sinai Sensation offers a host of engaging Sinai experiences. Children will turn into archaeologists by putting on goggles and fishing through a mock water-bed to find ancient treasures left behind during the splitting of the sea. Kids can find a wealth (literally!) of surprises; the deeper the dig, the more exciting the find.

The more earthy tribe member will revel in the Desert Challenge, a more competitive and demanding version of the Jewish peoples’ desert-trek. Kids get to strategies and traverse their way through a 36’ rock-climbing wall – without protective clouds or a torch leading the way.

All swimmers and climbers eventually find their way to Mount Sinai, where they will witness the giving of the Torah. Children will watch the Ten Commandments descend on a cloud, accompanied by a spectacular sound-and-light show.

Along with all the Sinai interaction, the Museum will be bringing children even more up close by revealing ancient Torah scrolls and teaching about the Torah’s intricate writing process.

Sinai Sensation is accented by a live Shavuot game show and original Torah craft.

The Miracles: A Chol Hamoed spectacular!

Fox 5 news: Matzah For The Troops

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Project iMatzah in full swing!

Visitors to the Jewish Children's Museum give their passover greetings to U.S. Army Sgts. Paul Davis of New York and Lewis Salboa of the Dominican Republic. At the end of the event, Salboa said that they "were very happy to partner with the Aleph Institute in this wonderful program."
Zohar Schulman writes a note to her father, who is on active duty in Baghdad.

More than 500 children learned how to bake matzah Wednesday during Operation: Message in a Matzah at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y. Part of the museum’s annual matzah workshop, the joint program with the Bal Harbour, Fla.-based Aleph Institute sent a package of specially-baked Passover matzah to Jewish soldiers stationed abroad for every matzah the children baked themselves. The museum visitors also filled out cards to bring smiles to American military personnel.

The Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani at the Jewish Children's Museum

Attorney General of the US -- By the Dinner at the Jewish Children's Museum

A Mother's Pain Translated Into Hope

Torah Unwrapped!

304,805: Letters in a Torah scroll.
3,320: Years since the first Torah was handwritten on raw parchment.
1: Chance to try it yourself.

Children explore every element of the Torah-making experience during this spellbinding event. Uncover the history of hundred-year-old scrolls, see and handle unfinished hides for parchment, mix ink, fashion goose-feather quills and try your own scribal-scribble!

Workshop includes Torahs, Tefillin and Mezuzot of different traditions that survived persecution through the ages.