An Oasis in the Current Chaos
An Oasis in the Current Chaos: My Daughter’s Mud Beit Midrash (8-Min. Shabbat Shalom Video)
Read MoreIsrael at War and a Young Woman’s Heroic Choice
Hundreds of rockets falling, a state of emergency declared as Israeli Arabs riot, the injured filling Israeli hospitals, funerals for the victims, and IDF platoons heading south for a possible ground invasion. Among Israel’s worst escalation of violence in 7 years, today I received such wonderful news from Chana, a beautiful, idealistic young woman who […]
Read MoreMilka Gueta: In Yehuda’s Final 3 Months, he Accomplished like 3 Years (3-Min. Video)
Since tragedy struck the Gueta family, different people have told me about the under-cover acts of chesed performed by my neighbor, grieving mother Milka Gueta, that were kept secret from everyone besides the recipient. How she bought the school books and would sometimes clean the apartment of neighbor who is a single mother. How she […]
Read MoreMy Kids “Taking the Scenic Route” and Tefilat HaShla
Tefilat HaShela My husband and I both did a lot of searching before we ended up as Orthodox Jews in our early twenties. I guess I thought, as the BT mother of FFB kids, that Josh and I had searched so our kids wouldn’t have to. Well, BTs plan and their FFB kids (at least […]
Read MoreWhen 2 Secular Israelis Came to the Shiva for 2 Chassidic Boys
Yakir Asaraf, a secular Israeli who like many others was shocked by the immensity of the Meron tragedy, decided that he had to do something to share in the families’ pain, and he and a friend went to pay a shiva call to the Englard family of Jerusalem, who lost their two sons, Moshe Natan […]
Read MoreComforting Milka
Tonight, I sat with my neighbor, Milka Gueta, the mother of 19-year-old Yehuda Gueta, who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist while waiting at a bus stop on his way back to yeshiva. Sitting with Milka at the crowded outdoor shiva, I was thinking how it sometimes seems that mothers who are tragically rocketed into […]
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