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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 as well as super idealistic and passionate about Judaism and Israel. There was nothing not to love about her. But when I heard that Hani’s parents would be coming to our annual Chanukah party for Josh’s students, my nervousness...
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...
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 decade already, right after Purim and before I start any of my Pesach shopping and cleaning, I go downtown to buy myself a new dress and a hat for Seder night. I do this because I know what happens between Purim and Pesach. Passover...
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 before Pesach,” Miriam told me, “maybe you could use it?” I definitely could! I had just noticed that I didn’t have enough flour in the pantry to make challah for my family plus the family with a new baby I had volunteered to cook...
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. Will we survive? And then, with Hashem’s help, we fight back! And then (this is the part of the megillah that hasn’t happened YET…) Haman and his sons get hanged on a tree and Mordechai becomes the second...
read moreHow Can I Possibly be Happy this Purim? By R’ Eitiel Goldwicht*
https://jewishmom.com/wp-content/uploads/376252df-8f9a-4f7c-b5dd-f740156e3500.mp4 The best way to increase happiness in challenging times. Shavua tov an Purim sameach!
read moreThe Gabbait of the Kotel’s Reaction to My Post
This morning at pilates class I saw Aviva for the first time since I posted about her. For those of you who missed it, last Friday I wrote about how this Yemenite woman in her 60s goes to the Kotel every weekday at 3 AM, and has been doing so for 30 years. The other women who come to the Kotel even nicknamed her the Gabbait of the Kotel. When I saw her I remembered that she had never seen the post, and I thought how I should show her. But then I reconsidered. Last week she’s told me, “Don’t write about me! I don’t want...
read morePre-Purim Cartoon Blitz:)
Minyan/Minion cartoon by @keren_keet ✡👩🍼Join the JewishMom.com WhatsApp group, where we strive to make every Jewish Mom smile every day👨👩👦👦💌 ...
read moreCharedi Reservist’s Emotional Reunion with Son
May Hashem guard over this father and all of our soldiers!
read moreHow Shulamit Got her Son to Lay Tefillin Every Day
Today Josh and I came to Jaffa to celebrate our 28th (!) anniversary later this month, and to buy a new table from the lovely woman in this photo, Shulamit. And while we were in her store, Shulamit shared with me the following incredible story: “I see that you are also a believer. Most people who come in here I don’t tell this to them because I don’t wan’t them to fill my ears with unkind words. But you will for sure understand. “I live my life with faith. I sit here and open up my Tikkun HaKlali and just say the...
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