So I’m revisiting a popular project from a few years ago that lets kids participate in the mitzvah of hanging a mezuzah. These DIY mezuzahs are made with materials you may already have in the house.

A mezuzah is more than a way to mark the front door of a Jewish household. This special parchment, contained in a decorative case, contains the Hebrew verse for the Shema Yisrael prayer.

Instead, he shared pictures from the day his family affixed a mezuzah on the doorframe of the vice president’s mansion. Mezuzahs are tubes containing the text of the Shema prayer that Jews ...