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The Secret to Blessing by Rabbi Yisroel Majeski
So hard to do, but so potentially life-changing.
read moreThe Funeral and My Flag
Last Saturday night, before the funeral of my neighbor’s nephew, Seargent Hillel Eliyahu Ovadia HY”D, a request was sent out on behalf of the family to line our street holding flags as our neighbors walked from their home to the IDF bus that would take them to Mt. Herzl.So I took a big Israeli flag and attached it to a broom handle and went outside and held it high along with around 100 other flag-bearing people as our neighbors walked to the bus. When Josh and I got a ride with our neighbor to Mt. Herzl, I took my flag with me.But...
read moreSouthern Lebanon Switches Flags
https://jewishmom.com/wp-content/uploads/WhatsApp-Video-2024-11-02-at-11.29.06-PM.mp4 Southern Lebanon Switches Flags After a year of bombarding northern Israel with rockets and UAVs, thanks to Hashem and our brave soldiers, southern Lebanon is now almost completely Hezbollah-free and under Israeli control b”H! As demonstrated by these IDF soldiers who found a
read moreDouglas Murray Tears Apart Anti-Israel Journalist
When I saw this I assumed Murray is Jewish. He’s not. Guess you don’t have to be Jewish to recognize the truth. Shabbat shalom and Chodesh tov! https://jewishmom.com/wp-content/uploads/WhatsApp-Video-2024-11-01-at-2.02.53-PM.mp4
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Evacuee-Family Baby Boom
My neighbor Shlomit’s husband is from Kiryat Shmoneh, so for a year now her father and mother-in-law have been evacuees. And it has not been easy. B”H, over the last month or so her in-laws have welcomed 4 new grandchildren into their family. At one of the many recent simchas, Shlomit’s sister-in-law pointed out, “What an incredible nation we are, under attack from all sides and we’re in the middle of a baby boom. Everyone’s having babies!” To which Shlomit responded, “May this be the only kind...
read moreThe Short, Great Lives of our Fallen Soldiers
Today I came across a quote from an unlikely source that brought me comfort in this week of funerals for so many young soldiers.Author Tom Stoppard puts this quotation into the mouth of a nineteenth-century Russian philosopher as he struggles to come to terms with the death of his son, who drowned in a shipwreck and whose life, the philosopher insists, was no less valuable for never coming to fruition in adult accomplishments.‘Because children grow up, we think a child’s purpose is to grow up,’ the philosopher says....
read more3 Big-Hearted Israelis by the Lebanese Border
My daughter spent Shabbat in a gorgeous community 50 kilometers from Lebanon. She was surprised to see that life continues there pretty much as usual. There is on average only one siren a week. And the residents have mostly stayed put. But there have been certain difficulties, including the fact that the kids can’t attend school because of the restrictions on large gatherings. The community’s kids have been attending classes by zoom for a year now. But zoom education is (as we moms remember from the pandemic) lacking. So some...
read moreA Hard Few Days
This past Friday, the nephew of my dear next-door neighbor, Hillel Eliyahu Ovadia, was killed in the war.And so was the grandson of my daughter’s guidance counselor.And another neighbor’s husband (Guy ben Chana) seriously injured in Lebanon, is fighting for his life.I am exhausted. Partially because I was at the funeral of my neighbor’s 22-year-old nephew at Mt. Herzl and didn’t make it home last night until 2:30 AM.But what I’m feeling is deeper than tiredness. It’s deeper than even bone tiredness.I...
read moreMeeting Iris Chaim, Mother of the Hostage Mistakenly Killed by IDF
Meeting Iris Chaim, Mother of the Hostage Mistakenly Killed by IDF The highlight of my Succot, and my thoughts on this complicated Simchat...
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