As we approach Yom Kippur and the end of the high holidays, we’ve gathered our favorite ways to help children better understand the holiday, as well as our favorite charities to work with this year, and our top break-fast recipes.
Yom Kippur for Children聽
Teach
Take the time to teach children about the holiday and its significance. Practice saying the appropriate greeting, such as聽鈥淕ood Yuntif,鈥� or 鈥淵om Tov.” Prepare ahead of time by聽聽or ordering children’s books on the subject, such as this聽,听, or聽.听聽for children about the holiday that your family can watch together.
Create
Crafts are a great way to encourage children to think and learn about the holiday in a different way. Consider making Yom Kippur greeting cards for family or friends who also celebrate. Children can also make a聽. You could also ask your child to聽聽or a paper tablecloth for the break-fast.
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While young children will likely not engage in fasting with the adults, there are plenty of other ways to include them in the holiday. You might suggest that instead of fasting, they choose something else to give up for the day – perhaps sweets, a favorite food, or technology. Take some time on Yom Kippur to discuss the meaning behind the holiday; discuss forgiveness and plans for the new year. Perhaps your family can sit together and reflect on the past year and apologize for mistakes; afterwards, you can look forward to the year ahead and what you hope to achieve. Make sure your child is given the same time and attention as adults when sharing.
Break-fast Recipes聽
Our Recommended Charities: Where To Volunteer or Donate Ahead of Yom Kippur聽
We’ve shared these before but these are our go-to favorite charities during the holiday season – and year-round.
聽offers several ways to help, from financial donations to planting trees to creating memorial pages for loved ones to volunteering.听
聽works to provide nourishing food for the nearly 50 million聽Americans, including 17 million children,听who do not have enough to eat on a regular basis.听
聽supports a vast network of food banks and provides聽emergency food and support to people in聽poverty聽in the UK.听
‘s website states聽that an estimated聽403,000 people聽are currently being trafficked in the United States and that聽New York City is one of the聽largest destinations聽for trafficked women in the country. Restore helps by working to end sex trafficking in New York and by assisting survivors with establishing聽healthy and sustainable lives.听
聽works to assist with and address issues related to infertility, including insurance coverage, adoption, laws surrounding IVF treatments, and helping the聽LGBTQ+ community with family building options.听
聽is a NYC- based charity that supports families聽by providing parents with education, community, and material goods for the first three years of their child’s life to help give them a successful start.听
聽provides support to families of premature or sick infants and to those who have been affected by pregnancy and infant loss.听
聽aims to improve the lives of individuals living with autonomic nervous system disorders through research, physician education, public awareness, and patient empowerment programs.听