Groom Battles Terrorist on Way to Pick up Wedding Suit
This week’s wave of terror attacks has revealed some of the hidden heroes of Am Yisrael. Heroes like Matan Shukrun. Yesterday morning, a few hours before his Chinna engagement party, Matan Shukrun was in Jerusalem’s Geula neighorhood with his fiance to pick up his wedding suit. As he got out of his car, he saw […]
Read MoreI am Freaking Out, But…
Freaking out. Panicking. Locking me and my family inside this house and throwing away the key. That’s what I wanted to do after my husband called to tell me about this morning’s wave of terror attacks around Jerusalem and Israel. But then I looked at my 23-item long to-do list, and realized that I can’t […]
Read MoreHow to Overcome Post-Tishrei Overwhelm
We are almost a week post-Succot, and my “To-Be-Done-ASAP-After-the-Chagim” to-do list is still 23 items long (I keep it hidden away in a drawer, tell-tale heart style). My laundry piles–dirty as well as clean and waiting to be sorted and put away– are nearly above my head (elephant’s-eye-style). And I have this fear, based on […]
Read MoreFinding Hashem in the Terror Blitz (11-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Seeing Hashem’s kindnesses within the current string of terror attacks taking place in Israel.
Read MoreThe Surprise in our New Front Yard
One of the strangest things about our wonderful new home in Kiryat Moshe is the 20-foot-high cactus in our front yard. I haven’t paid so much attention to the cactus. I guess because it’s ugly. And also because I’d rather not think too much about its witchy needly fingers reaching my way every time I […]
Read MoreBig News from the Weisberg Family!
I’ve got some big news to share with you. After almost 20 years in Nachlaot, we moved last week to a new home in another Jerusalem neighborhood called Kiryat Moshe. The move has been keeping me non-stop busy. Lots of boxes and things to organize and to go out to buy (which means JewishMOM.com is […]
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