When 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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Recite Tefilat HaShlah for Your Children TODAY!
Every year we say this gorgeous prayer (one of my all-time favorites) for our children on Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan. When Rosh Chodesh is on Sunday, as it is this year, we recite Tefilat HaShla the Thursday before Rosh Chodesh. TODAY. Please spread the word. Find the prayer with English translation at: https://artscroll.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/prayer.pdf
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A Surprising Reunion at the Travel Agency
Today Josh and I made a presentation about our home-hospitality business at a large travel agency near Tel Aviv. There were maybe 25 tour operators at the meeting, and afterwards everyone left the meeting room except for one petite woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing jeans and a t-shirt. “Chana, you look familiar to me, […]
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