Kinderlach, Go Home
Today I participated in Shevach’s amazing day trip to Gush Etzion. We visited a bunch of places (this photo was taken at the Herodian) but the place that made the deepest impression on me was Kefar Etzion and the story of the brutal 1948 massacre of 242 Gush-Etzion kibbutz members (among them 22 women as […]
Read MoreWhen a Mother of 6 Got Onto the Crowded Bus
We Weisbergs are ALWAYS home for Shabbat. Except this week. This Shabbat we Weisbergs are scattered across the globe, in Venice, in a cottage in the Ontario wilderness, in Tel Aviv… And me? I’m on my way to spend a quiet Shabbat with my 8-year-old Yoni by the Kinneret in Tiberias. I thought Shabbat in […]
Read MoreMy Daughter’s Rejection Letter
This morning my daughter received a whopper of a disappointment. After years putting her all into her schoolwork and her university entrance exam, she applied to 4 universities, and amazingly made it to the final stage of the acceptance process at 2 of them. But today she found out that she hadn’t gotten into even […]
Read MoreMommash: The Oy and Joy of Mothering a Large Family
This week, Lori Fein interviews me about my life as a mother of many (B”H KA”H) for her wonderful Mommash podcast. Enjoy! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mommash-the-oy-joy-of-family-with-lori-fein/id1670780787?i=1000617980388
Read MoreWhen Love Conquered Traffic
Yesterday afternoon I hopped into my neighbor’s car and we headed from Jerusalem to Beersheva to support our 18-year-old daughters at their end-of-year theater-club performance. At first Waze predicted a quick hour-and-twenty-minute trip, but traffic had something else up its sleeve. My neighbor and I ended up stuck in traffic jam after traffic jam, turning […]
Read MoreA Jewish Mother’s Sacrifice by Rabbi YY Jacobson
Very moving story about a Jewish mother’s commitment to Judaism, at the risk of imprisonment or worse at the hands of the Soviet regime.
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