All the Stuff I Cleaned this Week
Next week I’ll start cleaning for Pesach. But this week I enjoyed some old-fashioned spring cleaning. I got onto a ladder and cleaned 6-years worth of dust off the blades of our ceiling fans with a pillowcase. I separed the rat’s nest of wires under my desk, and rubber-banded them into 3 neat ponytails for […]
Read More26 Years Ago Today
On Shabbat, my daughter asked me an interesting question. “Eema, if you could go back in time and have all your children without going through pregnancy and birth, would you?” My family was taken aback by how quickly and unhesitatingly I answered “Yes!” “But do you think, after the fact, it was worth going through […]
Read MoreMazal Tov to Fellow Friends School Alumna, Rochelle!
A few years ago a young woman named Rochelle Windman came to us for a Shabbat meal. She was putting together a Jewish learning program for singles and somebody suggested my husband could teach. So she came to our house for a meal to meet him. When Rochelle came in, I asked what she was […]
Read MoreThe Successful Failed Shidduch
I thought my daughter was going to marry the first boy she dated. But, after a few months of day-dreaming about the wedding and practicing saying his last name added to her first, they broke up. I’ve heard it said that just like the person you marry is bashert, so too are the people you […]
Read MoreWar in the Ukraine
From One Extreme: My 2 Visits to the Ukraine Reflections on 2 visits 30 years apart and the current invasion. Shabbat shalom!
Read MoreThe Best Part of the Chumash Party
This past Friday, there were so many Chumash-party highlights. Yoni got to hold the microphone and sing “Tov li Torat Picha!” all by himself! And an important Rosh Yeshiva came special! And Yoni got to sit on his Abba’s lap the whole time! And wear a tall golden crown! And all the boys got to […]
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