When My Father was Rejected from Every Med School
I don’t like telling my Dad disappointing news, so it took me until today to tell him that his granddaughter didn’t get accepted to a single university. And then I had a niggling of a memory that my Dad had had a hard time himself getting into medical school. So I asked him to remind […]
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 MoreMy Chicken-Soup Smile
A few weeks ago we hosted a group of journalists, and photographer Eyal Warshawsky came along too. The first time I saw this photo that Eyal took of me I didn’t like it. My smile is so huge, it looked unnatural to me. But now that I’ve had a chance to look at it more, […]
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 MoreMy Visit to Ancient Shilo
I’ve been living in Israel for nearly 30 years, and my name is Chana, so I can’t really explain why it took me until today to visit the site most associated with my namesake: ancient Shilo. This is the exact place where Chana came to pray for a child, in the Holy Tabernacle, and where […]
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