What I Will Never Forget about Joe Lieberman OBM
17 years ago, Josh had a very, very special student, Hani Lieberman, the daughter of Senator Joe and Hadassah. At the start of the year, I was a little nervous to meet Hani, the daughter of a one-time candidate for Vice President, but I needn’t have been. Even at 18 she was already deeply humble […]
Read MoreFormer Hostage Speaks Out: God was With Me in the Tunnels
A mind-blowing interview with Sapir Cohen on the From the Inside Out Podcast with Rivkah and Eda. Sapir’s riveting personal story is one of non-stop miracles. Watch the entire 24-minute interview at https://youtu.be/JgFX67HE2RM?feature=shared. May all the hostages, including Sapir’s boyfriend Sasha Troponov, soon be safe at home, healthy in body and spirit.
Read MoreThe 1st Thing I Do Every Year Right After Purim
This afternoon, even though my house and I are still recovering from Purim, and it meant pushing myself beyond my wiped-outness and leaving behind the 2 blessed sem girls hard at work on my pot-stacked kitchen and wine-stained living room floor…I went out to do what I do every year. Every year, for around a […]
Read MoreMy Motley Challah
This past Friday my neighbor, Miriam, came over with a box full of partially used bags of flour. Miriam, I know, loves baking and she had just hosted a retirement party for 2 colleagues from work and had baked up a storm. “But I’m not going to be able to use up this much flour […]
Read MorePurim 2024
This year, reading Megilat Esther is like reading the newspaper. Then and now an evil anti-Semite attempted to take advantage of Jewish disunity (disunity then over: to feast or not to feast/disunity now over: to reform or not to reform) and tries to commit genocide against the Jewish people. At first we Jews are terrified. […]
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