The JCC did a great job with their children's programs during their recent Jewish Book Fair. My husband and I took our son to the Noah and the animals event (how fun it was to see him doing the limbo and dancing with an elephant and a zebra...and to party with a female Noah) and we also attended the Goodnight Schma reading with the grandparents. As the later activity got started I heard the organizers saying "Broken Toe! Broken Toe!" and I suddenly realized that I had heard this before - the day I took my son to the Rosh Hashanah tot program. This was the phrase I tried so desperately to remember to ask my husband about later in the day. I knew the teacher really wasn't singing "broken toe" but I thought it was close enough to what she was saying that someone would be able to translate it for me. No such luck, none that is until last weekend's author reading! As the author and organizer started greeting everyone, and the many children in attendance answered back, it suddenly dawned on me that what I was hearing was the Hebrew word for good morning (or good day), "Boker Tov" (boh-kehr tohv). My knowledge of Hebrew has begun!
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