{"id":192,"date":"2010-05-26T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2010\/05\/jewish-music-together.html"},"modified":"2010-05-26T15:47:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:47:49","slug":"jewish-music-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2010\/05\/jewish-music-together.html","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Music Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing two children through toddlerhood, I have sat through enough rounds of &#8220;Hello, everybody, so glad to see you&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musictogether.com\/\">Music Together<\/a> classes to set my teeth on edge. If only we had something like this music class, Jewish Family Jam, when my girls were babies, I might have actually encouraged them to sing the songs over and over and over rather than pleaded (silently) with them to cease and desist. It&#8217;s kind of brilliant, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<div><object width=\"512\" height=\"322\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/static.video.yahoo.com\/yep\/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"AllowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"id=20027022&amp;vid=7554811&amp;lang=en-us&amp;intl=us&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/p\/i\/bcst\/videosearch\/14853\/108109631.jpeg&amp;embed=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/static.video.yahoo.com\/yep\/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"512\" height=\"322\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" flashvars=\"id=20027022&amp;vid=7554811&amp;lang=en-us&amp;intl=us&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/p\/i\/bcst\/videosearch\/14853\/108109631.jpeg&amp;embed=1\"><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/video.yahoo.com\/watch\/7554811\/20027022\">PJ Pals<\/a> @ <a href=\"http:\/\/video.yahoo.com\">Yahoo! 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