If I Could Learn Torah with Anybody this Shavuot: Rabbi Eitan Feiner’s Heartbreaking Answer

Posted by JewishMom on May 25, 2023 in Current Events | 0 comments

Josh is teaching this Shavuot at a shul in California, and my little boys are begging me to learn with them on Shavuot so they will get Popsicles when they go back to school on Sunday. When they asked me I didn’t even look up from the pot I was stirring on the stove, “You […]

My Favorite Cheese-Cake Recipe

Posted by JewishMom on May 24, 2023 in Current Events | 0 comments

You Too Can be Holy by Charlie Harary

Posted by JewishMom on May 23, 2023 in Inspiration | 1 comment

Your Plan, Hashem’s Plan

Posted by JewishMom on May 22, 2023 in Inspiration | 0 comments

This Shavuot

Posted by JewishMom on May 22, 2023 in Current Events, Inspiration | 1 comment

A Surprising Question from our Chinese Guest

Posted by JewishMom on May 20, 2023 in Current Events, My life | 1 comment

Last night we hosted a wonderful group of 28 Chinese tourists. We are learning that Chinese people ask very different questions than our guests from Western countries. Last night, for example, one guest stood up and asked, “In this country, is your family considered rich, poor, or middle class?” As though this is a question […]

This Jerusalem Day, on the Train Home

Posted by JewishMom on May 19, 2023 in Current Events, Inspiration, Israel | 1 comment

56 years ago, during the 6 Day War, 3 mighty Arab countries invaded young and tiny Israel. Israelis braced themselves for a second Holocaust, just 3 decades after the first left 6 million Jews murdered. But 56 years ago, instead of an Arab victory, and dead Jews filling the mass graves that had been prepared […]

Recite Tefilat HaShlah for Your Children TODAY!

Posted by JewishMom on May 18, 2023 in Current Events, Jewish Moms, Motherhood | 1 comment

Every year we say this gorgeous prayer (one of my all-time favorites) for our children on Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan. When Rosh Chodesh is on Sunday, as it is this year, we recite Tefilat HaShla the Thursday before Rosh Chodesh. TODAY. Please spread the word. Find the prayer with English translation at: https://artscroll.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/prayer.pdf

An Act of Kindness in Beersheva

Posted by JewishMom on May 18, 2023 in Inspiration, Israel, My life | 1 comment

Today my 18-year-old daughter Moriya travelled to Beersheva for her weekly drama class. And after the class Moriya went to donate blood. And after that Moriya realized that she hadn’t eaten since the morning. And she was super hungry and was starting to feel dizzy. So Moriya entered the nearest supermarket to buy something to […]

Why Rubashkin Refuses to Say He Was in Prison

Posted by JewishMom on May 16, 2023 in Current Events, Inspiration | 1 comment

I spent Lag BaOmer listening to Rabbi YY Jacobson’s spectacular 4-hour kumsitz with R’ Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin, made just a few months after Rubashkin was released after 8 years in prison. R’ Shalom Mordechai’s tales of simple faith, trust and unflagging determination to live as a Jew in prison left me spellbound. Here is a […]