Children’s “Shavua Newsletter” Takes Off

Eight months ago Gabi and Avremy Shapiro started making the Shavua Newsletter. It began because they wanted something to fill up their free time and breaks in the Nigri Jewish Online School. It would be free, it would be for kids, or really for all ages, and it would be weekly. Thereby filling up their time, and other children’s time with quality reading.

Week by week the newsletter got better and better. Gabi and Avremy searched the world for ideas in content and design. They understood that almost even more than the content, the design had to be well done to make the newsletter as pleasant and interesting to read.

Slowly, they added more and more serials and sections to the newsletter. A Fun Zone, an Interview, a Comic, a Feature, even a girl’s teen serial called Bullied! was written by Chaya Cohen to offer a quality serial tailored for girls. Rabbi Moshe Moscowitz, the Shapiro’s Zeidy, and creator of Shazak, offered to use a Shazak Insight for the weeks parsha featured in the newsletter weekly, which was gladly excepted. Eventually, the newsletter slowly grew to over 30 pages.

After only 2 months the newsletter hit 100 subscribers. It currently holds a 200+ subscriber count.

After receiving so many fan letters from excited kids around the world, a Fan Letters section was added. Readers enjoyed the quality content and beautiful design and sent in their sincere thoughts on the newsletter.

There was a Fan Letters letter from Esti Shuster who wrote:

Shavua, I love your newsletter, I and my family look forward to it every week. It is super interesting, fun, exciting, fascinating, and entertaining. I love every part of it. Thank you soo much!!

Mendel Perlstein told Shavua Newsletter:

Hey Shavua!

Your newsletter is CRAZY good!

Thank you so much for something to look forward to in Corona!

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