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Carol Kasser is better known to young readers everywhere as Bubbie the Book Lady. In recent years, she has been busy as a storyteller, educational workshop director, and children’s author. Dr. Kasser, has a doctorate in education from Temple University and twenty years of teaching experience. She graduated from Gratz College with an M.A in Jewish Studies. A member of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains, Dr. Kasser has worked as a Jewish Chaplain since 1988. The Bubbie the Book Lady name on any book is your guarantee that it will be educational, wholesome, and entertaining. It also indicates that 10% of the profits from the book will go to charity. If you would like to sell Dr. Kasser’s books as a fundraiser for your school, charity, or synagogue, please contact her at kass@bubbiethebooklady.com. She also enjoys hearing from her readers.

She and her husband Harris live in Bucks County, PA. She is an avid reader, writer, swimmer and line-dancer. The inspiration for her books comes from her five grandchildren Hunter, Nicholas, Dylan Logan, and Kayla.

What Holiday is it? is a guide to the Jewish holidays for young children. Readers look picture and try to guess which holiday it is. The next page provides facts about the holiday and suggests activities the child can do to celebrate.

THE ANNUAL OBSERVANCES

The annual festivals are not just days that God arbitrarily chose as holidays for the nation of Israel. Before the creation of humanity, God had a purpose and plan for them which is revealed through the literal, prophetic, and symbolic meaning that God has placed within each of these festivals.

It is through the observance and study of these annual festivals that one can gain many awesome insights into the minds of God the Father and Jesus Christ and into their plan for the future of humanity.

Each festival is unique in its meaning and purpose; however, all the festivals are interrelated in their contribution to God´s plan for the salvation of humanity. Moreover, each festival has a literal, symbolic, and prophetic meaning concerning the people, places, times, and events in God´s plan.

The annual festivals that God commanded Israel to observe were times of great rejoicing. These were times when all Israelite males were to present themselves before God to formally worship him and bring him the required tribute and free will offerings. These festivals were to be times of national thanksgiving and rejoicing, which showed appreciation for the great blessings that the Creator God had bestowed upon national Israel. These days also hold a great importance to those who are called to salvation during the ages prior to and after the return of Jesus Christ as King of kings.

The Commanded Observances and Holy Convocations Past, Present, and Future (Volume Two) will answer many very important questions about the festivals of Unleavened Bread, Weeks, Trumpets, Atonement, Shelters/Ingathering, and Eighth Day and will reveal a new dimension of understanding into God´s plan for the salvation of humanity—past, present, and future.

Sleighs pulled by eight legs, Bellsnicklers, Christmas gnomes called Skirt Blower and Window Peeper, bagpipes made from cats, mean Knecht Ruprecht, “Dames” played by men, furry, ugly Naliyuk, a village nut fight, carved radishes, lanterns the size of a house, boiled moose nose…What do these all spell? They say Merry Christmas somewhere in the world.

Christians and non-Christians worldwide celebrate Christmas. As the world becomes a smaller place, these celebrations will become increasingly similar. It is important to document the varying ethnic differences before they disappear into sameness.

Each section for the sixty-seven countries covered describes how to say the greeting Merry Christmas in each language, when the season begins and ends, the special days that are included in the holiday season, the church services that are celebrated, the Santa Claus figure and the gift-giving traditions, the food and drink, the decorations and Christmas trees, and the unique happenings, events, legends and superstitions of each country.

The book includes the usual countries such as England, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Spain, and Ireland, but an attempt has been made to cover countries for which there is little or no written information: Ethiopia, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Haiti, India, Jordan, Malta, Mauritius, Myanmar, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Turkey, Sudan, Antigua & Barbuda, Cuba, Cyprus, Ghana, Japan, Martinique, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Romania, Somalia, and Egypt, among many others.

Years of work have gone into researching, conducting interviews, corresponding with embassies, priests, anthropologists, and teachers. The book was written out of a sense of urgency by a practicing school media specialist who tired of not being able to help students find the information needed in written form or via the Internet. It is hoped that this endeavor will fill in the many gaps in this field of study.

Sleighs pulled by eight legs, Bellsnicklers, Christmas gnomes called Skirt Blower and Window Peeper, bagpipes made from cats, mean Knecht Ruprecht, “Dames” played by men, furry, ugly Naliyuk, a village nut fight, carved radishes, lanterns the size of a house, boiled moose nose…What do these all spell? They say Merry Christmas somewhere in the world.

Christians and non-Christians worldwide celebrate Christmas. As the world becomes a smaller place, these celebrations will become increasingly similar. It is important to document the varying ethnic differences before they disappear into sameness.

Each section for the sixty-seven countries covered describes how to say the greeting Merry Christmas in each language, when the season begins and ends, the special days that are included in the holiday season, the church services that are celebrated, the Santa Claus figure and the gift-giving traditions, the food and drink, the decorations and Christmas trees, and the unique happenings, events, legends and superstitions of each country.

The book includes the usual countries such as England, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, Spain, and Ireland, but an attempt has been made to cover countries for which there is little or no written information: Ethiopia, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Haiti, India, Jordan, Malta, Mauritius, Myanmar, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Swaziland, Turkey, Sudan, Antigua & Barbuda, Cuba, Cyprus, Ghana, Japan, Martinique, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Romania, Somalia, and Egypt, among many others.

Years of work have gone into researching, conducting interviews, corresponding with embassies, priests, anthropologists, and teachers. The book was written out of a sense of urgency by a practicing school media specialist who tired of not being able to help students find the information needed in written form or via the Internet. It is hoped that this endeavor will fill in the many gaps in this field of study.