Malka Touger

Dovie had gone shopping with his mother. “Oh, Mommy!” he cried, pointing to an attractive Purim costume hanging on the rack. “I like that costume. Could you buy it for me?” “Dovie,” his mother replied. “We’ve already prepared your costume. It’s the one Mo...

A group of sixth graders were busy preparing their plans for Purim. “Let’s do something different this year,” someone said. “I have an idea! Let’s make a Purim party for the people at the old age home.” “Great idea, we can prepare a play!” “And a choir!” ...

“Come on, Yankie,” urged his younger brother Yehudah as the Stern family finished singing HaNeiros Hallalu. “Let’s play dreidel.” “Wait a minute, Yehudah,” Mr. Stern said, pulling some chairs over to the menorah. “First, let’s listen to what the candles a...

Beryl’s family is on shlichus in South America. For the first time, they were all going to spend the month of Tishrei in Crown Heights. They arrived a few days before Rosh HaShanah, and Beryl spent most of the first day in 770. Many things were going on, ...

It was a tired but happy Mendy who walked, or rather dragged his feet alongside his father as they left the shul on Simchas Torah after hakkafos. “I never danced so much in my life,” he said. “And I wasn’t the only one. You know, Tatti, I couldn’t believe...

“Aren’t you coming out for recess?” Fraidy asked Dena. “No,” replied Dena with a slight air of importance. “Morah Katz said she wanted to speak to me privately in the teachers’ room.” Nechamah, another seventh grader, thought Dena had raised her voice a b...

“Tatti,” said Shternie to her father on the way home from shul. “Last week, our Tzivos HaShem club met on Thursday, which was Chai Elul. We spoke about the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe, and our counselor asked us a riddle. I got ten points for giving...

It was the last day of camp. Campers and counselors were busy packing up and getting ready to load the buses. In bunk five, Chayah and Malkie had finished packing and had gone to sit by the site of the last night’s bonfire. “I’m sorry camp is over,” sighe...

At the end of Parshas Ki Savo, HaShem makes a covenant with the Jewish people. A covenant is an agreement, and a promise to keep that agreement. Does this remind you of Mattan Torah, when the Jewish people said “Na’aseh v’Nishmah,” agreeing to do everythi...

Rest period was a quiet time of the day at camp. No one in bunk tes was bothered by the daily sing-song coming from Yankie’s bed. They were already used to it. “Yankie is working hard for his Bar Mitzvah,” Dani said. “Uh huh” said Itchie. Thenhebegan chan...