The Tichel Outrage
Linor Abargil is an Israeli lawyer who won the Miss World beauty pageant in 1998. Over the last 2 decades, she has become a global advocate in the fight against sexual violence, as well as an observant Jew. After Abargil was chosen as the MC of this year’s official Independence Day Ceremony, a former judge […]
Read MoreWho’s That Kibbutznik in a Headscarf?! (3-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
My daughter, Hallel, is doing her national service this year volunteering with the elderly. And one of the places she volunteers is on a secular kibbutz. At the kibbutz’s ceremony for Israel’s Memorial Day, Hallel noticed something highly unusual. Right there, among all the secular kibbutz members, was one woman wearing a headscarf. So after […]
Read More92-Year-Old Foster Mom to 52 Steals the Show this Yom Haatsmaut
Every year, 12 Israelis are chosen to light the torches that mark the transition from Memorial Day’s mourning to Independence Day’s celebrations. In this video, watch Marie Nachmias, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and mother of 8 (plus foster mother to 52 children, many of whom were severely disabled) bring the house down! Even Prime Minister […]
Read MoreShira and Amichai Ish Ran, 6 Months Later (5-Minute Yom HaZikaron Interview)
In honor of Israel’s Memorial Day, for the first time Shira and Amichai Ish Ran reenact the night that would change their lives forever. They talk about the baby they lost, as well as the gift their baby gave them, and to millions of others, during his 3 days alive. On the eve of Yom […]
Read MoreRemembering Marta: From Auschwitz to Lebanon–Until Yom HaZikaron by Sivan Rahav Meir
Over the last few months, I had been filming a special news report for Memorial Day in which I wanted to tell the following story: Marta and Yosef Motzen were Holocaust survivors. Their son, Avremi, who was a student at the Kol Torah and Shaalavim yeshivas, fell in the Lebanon War when his tank set […]
Read MoreSaluting the Women of Valour, Under Fire (1-Minute Video)
Before today’s ceasefire, over the course of 48 hours, there were 690 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel’s citizens, injuring dozens and killing 4. Over 200,000 children were targetted by those rockets, and spent those 2 days home from school, living in fear of the next siren. This is a salute to the mothers of […]
Read MoreToday’s Sharon’s 70s Birthday, and Her Daughter’s in the ICU!
Please write a comment to send some love to my dear friends JewishMOM Sharon Saunders and her daughter Ruthie (featured in this video I made 11 years ago “My Heroes Live Next Door”). Ruthie has inoperable liver cancer and at this moment she is in the ICU fighting for her life. And today, which Sharon […]
Read MoreMy Son’s Bar Mitzvah, Under Fire by Dalia Harel
This Shabbat we celebrated the bar mitzvah of our son, Noam, at our synagogue in Sderot. We spent months preparing for the bar mitzvah, inviting guests from all over the country, and setting up a serious kiddush for the entire community. Noam read all of Parshat Kedoshim beautifully: ‘You shall be holy,’ ‘Love your neighbor […]
Read MoreHow Our Palestinian Muslim Guest Got the Surprise of Her Life
Yesterday evening, right after the start of Yom HaShoah, we hosted a group of American tourists who are on a trip to learn more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While here, they will be spending a few days meeting with Palestinians as well as Jews, like us. When the group arrived, I stood by our front […]
Read MoreAfter the Shoah, the Photo the Ponovezher Rav Kept in His Pocket
This incredible story appears in the newly-released bestseller “Sulam Yaakov” by Yedidya and Sivan (Rahav) Meir. Rav Kahaneman, the Ponovezher Rav, lost his wife and three of his four children in the Shoah. When the Nazis entered Ponovezh in August 1941 they conducted a systematic annihilation of all the Jews in the city. Hundreds of […]
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