Guilt-Free Mothering (11-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
This Shabbat, my children really needed me to be three places at once, and I failed. Here’s how I managed to stay guilt-free.
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Who Else was Murdered with Ezra Schwartz?
The murder last week of 18-year-old American yeshiva student, Ezra Schwartz from Massachusetts, hit us close to home. My husband runs a program for 18-year-old Modern Orthodox American girls, many of whom knew Ezra or were his classmates at Maimonides in Boston. Ezra was a student at Yeshivat Ashreinu in Beit Shemesh, and was planning […]
Read MoreOn my Way Home from the Terror Attack
This morning, baby Yonatan and I went to the Machaneh Yehuda market to buy some patches for the fraying elbows of my husband’s favorite sweater. On the way home, I started seeing lots of siren-ning ambulances racing past me. Before I even knew what had happened, I SMSed my husband. “I hear a lot of […]
Read MoreWhat was HaRav Elyashiv Like as a Baby?
You know how much Yonatan (who will be a year old in two weeks, mazal tov!) loves his babysitter? Every morning, when I knock on the babysitter’s door, Yonatan turns to me with a big teethy “YAY” smile. This morning, though, the moment I put Yonatan on the ground to play, the babysitter’s son, 11-month-old […]
Read MoreDoing Renovations in Israel? Read this…
Before we did renovations on our new home, we heard a lot of horror stories. People warned us that renovations in Israel are extremely stressful, and that we should plan for them to cost twice as much and take twice as long as planned. B”H, in the end, we found an incredibly professional and wonderful […]
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