My Miracle-Free Week
I have a hashgacha pratit journal, and every day for the last 6 months or so I’ve written some crazy Divine Providence that happened to me recently. I sometimes have to think a bit, 30 seconds max, but I always think of something. Sometimes I think of something small (I was thinking of someone I […]
Read MoreThe Pained Father at the Soccer Semifinals
Last week I took my 8-year-old, Yoni, to the Jerusalem Soccer Championship. He was able to participate in the all-Jerusalem championship after winning second place for his age group at our neighborhood soccer championship (full disclosure: he came in 2nd place out of 2 competitors:) On the day of the Jerusalem championship, the younger kids, […]
Read MoreMy Filthy Airbnb
We had set up with the owner that we would stop by our Tiberias Airbnb at 1 PM this Friday to drop off our bags and put Shabbat food in the fridge. When we set this up the owner reminded me that we would only be able to actually check-in at 3 PM, to give […]
Read MoreWhen My Father was Rejected from Every Med School
I don’t like telling my Dad disappointing news, so it took me until today to tell him that his granddaughter didn’t get accepted to a single university. And then I had a niggling of a memory that my Dad had had a hard time himself getting into medical school. So I asked him to remind […]
Read MoreMy Daughter’s Rejection Letter
This morning my daughter received a whopper of a disappointment. After years putting her all into her schoolwork and her university entrance exam, she applied to 4 universities, and amazingly made it to the final stage of the acceptance process at 2 of them. But today she found out that she hadn’t gotten into even […]
Read MoreMy Chicken-Soup Smile
A few weeks ago we hosted a group of journalists, and photographer Eyal Warshawsky came along too. The first time I saw this photo that Eyal took of me I didn’t like it. My smile is so huge, it looked unnatural to me. But now that I’ve had a chance to look at it more, […]
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