Not Doing Teshuva this Year

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 23, 2020 in Featured, Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 3 comments

Yoni’s kindergarten teacher sent out an exercise video she’d made for our boys to use during lockdown. I told Yoni: “The ganenet sent you exercises to do! How fun!” as I handed him my phone. But instead of doing the exercises himself, a few minutes later I found Yoni lying down flat on the sofa, […]

COVID COVID Rosh Hashana

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 22, 2020 in Current Events, Featured, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 4 comments

This Rosh Hashana, praying behind a mask in a tiny, socially-distanced minyan in my daughter’s schoolyard, it was so eminently clear to me. God runs everything! If He so desires, He can bring down human society as we know knew it with a virus so small that 100 million could fit on a single pinhead. […]

The Widow Who Blamed Herself for her Husband’s Death (3-Minute Rabbi Fischel Schachter Story)

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 21, 2020 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 4 comments

This past Thursday, I ran around for hours, taking care of my kids who are home because of Israel’s nationwide lockdown, and serving as personal waitress to my 10-year-old daughter who is quarantined in her room because her classmate has COVID. And trying to finalize our Rosh Hashana menu and shopping list and sort through […]

A Young Wife Asks, When Will I Get Pregnant?

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 16, 2020 in Featured, Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 9 comments

Life in Lockdown: Then and Now

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 15, 2020 in Current Events, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 3 comments

9 Tips to Achieving Joy

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 13, 2020 in Inspiration, Motherhood | 2 comments

Imagine if you lived a hundred and fifty years ago in a wooden cottage surrounded by frozen mud in Northern Galicia…Chances are you and your children go to bed hungry every night. Chances are you have lost a child or children in infancy or childbirth. Chances are you won’t live past the age of 50. […]