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Jewish Mothers, What’s New? (3-Minute Funny Video)
Residents at a Jewish Nursing Home reflect on what it means to be a Jewish mother. I laughed, I cried, and generally adored this! Happy Mother’s Day, JewishMOMs! Hat tip to Life in Israel
read moreThe Disabled Veteran who Refused to Give Up (5-Minute Inspirational Video)
Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran of the Gulf War for 15 years, and was told by his doctors that he would never be able to walk on his own, ever again. Watch his incredible story that has been viewed 1.3 million times since it was posted on YouTube 8 days ago…What’s your dream for YOUR life JewishMOM? If you believe in yourself and are determined, like Arthur Boorman was, than your dream can come true too, IY”H!Thanks to Esther Kohn for sharing this uplifting video with...
read moreWhen Illness Makes a Spouse a Stranger (5-Minute Moving Video)
Michael French has frontotemporal dementia, for which there is no cure or treatment. As his condition deteriorated, his wife, Ruth, had to move him to a nursing home, where she spends most days. This story is so sad, but the truth is that I also found it extremely inspirational… to see this real-life heroine who, despite the grief she initially experienced over the loss of the husband she once knew, has managed to accept the serious curve-ball that life has thrown her way with so much love and acceptance. Also, I think seeing this...
read moreYou Let Your Kids Do WHAT?
20/20 featured a shocking episode this past Friday called “You Let Your Kids Do WHAT?” This show includes a Las Vegas Billionaire who bribes her teenage daughter to bring home straight A’s with trips to Morocco and $20,000 shopping sprees. A couple that is raising their sons on a Florida nudist colony. And a couple who bought their 7-year-old son a $50,000 monster truck that he rides as the youngest participant on the hyper-dangerous monster truck circuit. The weird thing is that when these parents discuss their problematic...
read moreThe Real Life Seven Dwarfs (8-Minute Barbara Walters Interview)
This week, 20/20 featured the world’s largest family of dwarfs, parents Trent and Amber of Georgia and their 5 children. I think it is SO inspiring to see this family that manages to maintain a positive outlook despite the extreme medical and social challenges they face constantly (as mother Amber explains, they reject the “woe-is-me” attitude. How I wish I could follow their example instead of bubbling over with resentment regarding my own relatively small challenges!) But the most moving part of this interview for me is...
read moreThe Rebbe who Risked his Life for Mikveh
It’s mikvah night. You park your car, plop down your money, do your preparations, dunk, and go… It’s so easy to forget about the spiritual power of this crucial mitzvah… So I was struck by this Mishpacha account about the Nadvorna Rebbe zt”l, who was famous for his stunning self-sacrifice for the mitzvah of mikvah. The Rebbe became bar mitzvah in 1943 in the Dzurin labor camp. In the months leading up to his bar mitzvah, even though the Rebbe, like his fellow inmates, were gaunt from malnutrition and weak from disease,...
read moreWhat If?: A Portrait of Infertility (4-Minute Powerful Video)
This video, created by a childless Jewish woman, is a powerful reminder for us JewishMOMs about just how sensitive we need to be to the pain of the 1 in 8 married women who struggle with infertility.
read moreThe Widow’s Last Taxi Ride
Thanks so much to Kochav Yaakov JewishMOM Sara Greenberg for sending this my way… A NYC Taxi driver wrote: I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be the last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked… ‘Just a minute,’ answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her...
read moreWhy Cystic Fibrosis Patient ADORES her Life (12-Minute Inspiring Video)
14-year-old Cystic Fibrosis patient Claire Wineland has undergone dozens of surgeries and spent over 1000 days of her life in the hospital. Despite all of this, she radiates phenomenal joy and passion and has an amazingly positive outlook towards the non-stop challenges she’s faced throughout her life. What an inspiration this girl is! Thanks so much to Rechel Schoenfeld for sending this my way…
read moreThe Worry Wart
The infectious disease specialist reviewing my test results was extremely concerned. “According to your blood test,” Doctor M. explained with a furrowed brow, “there is a .5% chance that you’ve been infected. And if you’ve been infected, then there’s a 5% chance that the effects could be devastating.” The doctor, who was hands-down the friendliest, champion bedside-manner-est doctor I’d ever met, was also a whole lot better at math than me. But still, I tried to argue with him, “I...
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