The Most Traumatic End-of-Year Party of My Life
This June is the 10-year anniversary of the far-and-away most traumatic end-of-year party of my life. In 2005, Hallel was graduating from kindergarten at Gan Rafaela. It had been a tough year for Rafaela, Hallel’s teacher, whose dedication to the girls and great skill as an educator seemed, to me, to go largely unnoticed by […]
Read MoreMy Father’s 2 Miracles
B”H, I wanted to tell you that while my father is still not out of the woods yet, his surgery yesterday at Washington Hospital Center went very well. And I wanted to publicly thank Hashem (and YOU, JewishMOM, who davened to Hashem for my dad) for two miracles my father has experienced over the last […]
Read MoreRabbanit Yemima Mizrachi Remembers her Son: Yosef Chai z”l
It’s been more than ten years since my friend and teacher, Rabbanit Yemima, lost her baby son Yosef Chai z”l after he was born with a serious heart defect (here’s an article I wrote back then about Yosef Chai and his death). Here are some thoughts which Rabbanit Yemima shared with Ami Magazine (edited by […]
Read MoreThe Dangers of People-Pleasing (9-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Reflections on codependency in others and excessive approval-seeking in myself.
Read MoreA Mother’s Power by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff
Read this whole amazing article called “Targeting Stay-at-Home Moms” at Aish.com …One of the most difficult jobs in the world is called “mother.” There are some moms who work all day, return exhausted, and are disrespected or at best ignored in their homes. Yes, the same can be said for some mothers who stay at […]
Read MoreAn Occasionally Frustrated Mother = A Better Mother
Every mother sometimes feels angry at her kids. Every mother sometimes feels irritated with her kids. Every mother sometimes loses it with her kids. And, it turns out, that’s a very good thing! In this week’s New York Times Magazine, Journalist Andrew Solomon shared something which this occasionally ambivalent JewishMOM found fascinating, liberating, and comforting. […]
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