9 Months After Building Mikveh, Baby Born after 21-Year Wait

This is so beautiful. My favorite thing about this video is how the entire community came together to help their childless neighbors, and then how the entire community had a big celebration with dancing and music in the streets when they brought home their baby girl. “All who mourn [the destruction of] Jerusalem will merit […]
Read MoreThe Student my Husband Didn’t Want to Meet

Last Friday my husband, Joshua, returned from a 2- week trip to North America where he taught at several synagogues and visited family. Over Shabbat Josh told me the following remarkable story: “A friend of mine who is also a teacher sent me a message when I first arrived in the US asking if I […]
Read MoreA Hug Out of Nowhere

Yesterday my daughter had an appointment in a quiet, remote neighborhood overlooking the Malcha Mall. The appointment was an hour long, so I looked around for a place to daven and chose a bench by a walking path sandwiched between rosemary bushes and grass on both sides. The freshly-mowed grass made it smell like Baltimore […]
Read MoreThe Baby My Daughter Waited 5 Years For by Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi

(I’ve known Rabbanit Yemima’s daughter Shuli since she was a young girl. I was at her Bat Mitzvah. I rejoiced when I heard she’d gotten married. And over recent years, I would often exchange greetings with her when I ran into her on her way to teach 6th grade near my home. She always looked […]
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