Connecting Jewish Grandparents

What Are Jewish Values for Grandparents? | Vayera

What does it mean to be Jewish? In Parashat Vayera, Rabbaneat Sharona Hassan explores four core Jewish values through Avraham in Beresheit 18: healing and preserving life

What Does It Mean to Be a GRANDparent? | Lech Lecha

What does it mean to be a GRANDparent? In this episode of Connecting Jewish Grandparents, Rabbanit Sharona Hassan explores the Torah portion of Lech Lecha, Avram’s transf

How Can Grandparents Really Connect? l Noach

How can grandparents build stronger relationships with their children and grandchildren? Communication doesn't always lead to connection. Sometimes we talk without listen

When Grandparenting Isn't Perfect I Beresheet

We may imagine grandparenting as a kind of Gan Eden, perfect existance, filled with closeness, family, Jewish traditions, and meaningful connection. But what happens whe

How Do Grandparents Carry On? | V’zot HaBeracha & Simchat Torah

What does it mean to carry on when one chapter ends? For Jewish grandparents, Simchat Torah offers a powerful lens on legacy, Jewish continuity, and what we pass from one

Sukkot and Searching for Happiness

Sukkot is called 'Zman Simchateinu', the season of our joy. But what does it mean to be commanded to be happy? And what does Sukkot’s agricultural harvest have to teach

Is It Too Late for Grandparents? l Yom Kippur

Is it too late for grandparents? What if the relationship with a child or grandchild isn't what you hoped it would be? What if you've made mistakes, missed opportunities

What Does Your Family Crown? l Rosh Hashana

Rosh Hashanah invites us to recognize God as King through the powerful themes of Malchuyot, Zichronot, and Shofarot. But these ideas can also help us think about our own

A Different Kind of Legacy l Nitzavim-Vayeilech

What kind of legacy do we leave our grandchildren? As Moshe approaches the end of his life and leadership, much of his message has been about remembering: remember what

What’s in Grandma’s Basket? l Ki Tavo

Do you ever look at another grandparent and wonder why their relationship with their grandchildren seems easier, closer, or more abundant? This week, in connection to th

Grandparenting Doesn't Go as Planned l Ki Titzei

Grandparenting doesn't always go as planned. Parashat Ki Tetzei offers a deeply Jewish perspective on the hurt, disappointment, distance, and complicated family relations

How Are We Teaching Our Grandchildren to Trust?

How are we teaching our grandchildren to trust? Rabanit Sharona Hassan shows us how Parashat Shoftim offers powerful Torah wisdom about trust, authority, justice, and bui

What Will Your Grandchildren See? Re'eh

What does Parashat Re'eh teach about perspective? This episode explores the Torah's opening word, "Re'eh" ("See"), and how choosing how we see life's challenges can trans

Who Is God in Your Family's Story? | Parashat Eikev

What kind of God are we passing on to our grandchildren? In Parashat Eikev, Moshe reminds us that faith is transmitted through lived experience. Discover how your relatio

Hidden Wisdom of the Shema for Jewish Grandparents l Va'etchanan

What can the Shema teach Jewish grandparents about passing on faith, values, and identity to the next generation? In this episode of Connecting Jewish Grandparents, Rabb

What Legacy Will You Leave? Three Lessons from Moses | Devarim

How do Jewish grandparents build a meaningful legacy? In this episode of Connecting Jewish Grandparents, Rabbanit Sharona Hassan explores Parashat Devarim and Moses' fina

Carrying Inheritance l Matot - Masei

How do grandparents build a lasting legacy? In this episode of Connecting Jewish Grandparents, Rabbanit Sharona Hassan explores Parashat Matot-Masei through the lens of

What Will Your Grandchildren Inherit? Pinchas

What will your grandchildren inherit from you? In this episode of Connecting Jewish Grandparents, Rabbanit Sharona Hassan explores why Parashat Pinchas may be the Torah'

Helping Grandchildren with "Why?"

How do you answer a grandchild's endless questions of "Why?" And what happens when there simply isn't an answer? In this episode of Connecting Jewish Grandparents, Rabba

Grandparent without Korach's Mistake I Connecting Jewish Grandparents episode 46

Are you an aunt, uncle, or grandparent who finds yourself stepping into a parenting role you weren't meant for? It is easy to offer advice that wasn't asked for or try t