[HANASHIR:16472] Re: music for preschoolers

[ilana axel <iaxel...>]

Perhaps I can help here, not with an opinion, but with
an understanding. My sister-in-law, who became very
observant in her adult life, asked my husband and I
not to send dinosaur items as gifts to her children.
The reason she gave was that since according to the
Torah, the world was created 5764 years ago, dinosaurs
could not have possibly existed. This is the only
conflict I know about with regards to Judaism and
dinosaurs, and I think it would concern some orthodox
and Chasidic Jews. But my understanding is that the
discussion here has more to do with which secular
symbols we liberal Jews feel comfortable with, or not,
and for what reasons. Hope this helps a tiny bit.
Ilana
--- Amy Fried <jdkrheum (at) verizon(dot)net> wrote:
> Could you tell us the rest of the words to "if you
> see two neirot hide your
> eyes??" Sounds cute.
> 
> Also, Rahel brings up an interesting question:
> what's un-Jewish about a
> dinosaur? Sure, they're not mentioned in the bible,
> but does that make them
> secular?
> -Amy
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "erik contzius" <contzius (at) yahoo(dot)com>
> To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:12 AM
> Subject: [HANASHIR:16463] music for preschoolers
> 
> 
> > wow, that was a large digest to sift through!
> >
> > i would only advocate that for the sake of
> > preschoolers who make great affective connections
> to
> > their judaism at their age, that there be taught a
> > BALANCE of music--that which teaches them in
> English
> > certain values/rituals of judaism, irrespective of
> > musical form, AND that which teaches them
> something
> > about traditional Jewish music. I'll do silly
> stuff
> > like, "If you see two neirot, hide your eyes..."
> (if
> > you're happy and you know it) at the same time as
> I
> > have them all sing the traditional "Heiveinu
> shalom
> > aleikhem" or "zum gali gali." preschoolers will
> grow
> > up with positive connections to their judaism
> based on
> > their positive affective memories. i want to
> ensure
> > that those memories are both filled with
> informative
> > things as well as things which musically sound
> jewish.
> > if people want to do some dinosaur song, great.
> but
> > please, for the love of jewish culture, throw in
> some
> > simple niggunim or kick it "old school" as well.
> let's
> > not forget the oldies but goodies (whatever those
> may
> > be in your communities).
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Cantor Erik L. F. Contzius
> > New Rochelle, New York
> >
> > COME TO THE ROZHINKE RETREAT: http://rozhinke.org/
> > http://community.webshots.com/user/eriklfc
> > http://soundswrite.com/swstore1.html#howexcellent
> > http://tinr.org/
> >
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Ilana Axel
Music Director/Jewish Music Specialist/Singer
JRF Master Teacher 2002
Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Synagogue
Northbrook, Illinois
Tel: 847-279-0473
iaxel (at) yahoo(dot)com

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