The Shalva Band Chooses Shabbat Over Eurovision
The world’s most watched live-music event is the Eurovision contest, with 186 million viewers in 2018. Israel’s Neta Barzilai won this last year’s contest, and last night Israel chose who will represent Israel in this year’s contest, to be held in Tel Aviv. The biggest stars, though, of the finals to choose this year’s representatives […]
Read MoreAfter Losing Her Baby, Chana Yael’s Good News
For the last few weeks, I have been listening over and over to the CDs of Mevaser Tov, the Good News Choir of Chana Yael Abramson of Givat Assaf and Ruti Sofer of Jerusalem. Such exquisite, soul-moving songs (you can listen to some of my favorites below). Here is the incredibly moving story behind the […]
Read MoreA Miracle at the Cemetery (5-Minute Must-See Rabbi Yoel Gold Video)
This video is mind-blowing! As soon as I watched it wanted to share it with everyone I know! When Rabbi Amman was left alone burying a man he never met in a cemetery in Staten Island, he never imagined how much divine intervention was really at play…
Read MoreRemembering Ori (6-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
The lesson we must learn from Ori Ansbacher’s brutal murder. This past Thursday, a 19-year-old national-service girl named Ori Ansbacher was praying in a Jerusalem forest when a Palestinian came, brutally assaulted and murdered her. After the murder, Ori’s mother, Naah, shared the following: “It’s important for us that the world know who Ori was. […]
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After Mumbai, the Serebryanski’s Fertility Miracle (10-Minute Inspirational Video)
After the Mumbai terror attack, a fertility specialist is determined to bring more Jewish babies into the world.
Read MoreRaising a Chassidic Family in Bangkok
Since 1995, Nechami Wilhelm has been the Chabad rebbetzin of Bangkok. Over the past 24 years, over a million Jews, most of them tourists, have passed through her doors. At last week’s annual women’s gathering for Chabad emissaries–Kinus HaShluchos, Nechami Wilhelm shared her personal journey–from feeling that her mothering responsibilities were preventing her from effectively […]
Read MoreIsrael Air Force Chief: The Life-Altering Lesson Taught Me By My Father, the Holocaust Survivor
Last month, Israel’s former Air Force commander, Eliezer Shakadi, addressed a group of soldiers about the life-altering lessons he learned from his Holocaust survivor father. My father’s life story is impossible to comprehend. During World War II he jumped from a train, went to Budapest [where he found refuge], and was saved. After the war, […]
Read MoreWhy Rav Shach Went to This Simple Woman’s Funeral (3-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Reflections on a woman’s small act of kindness that changed the course of Rav Shach’s life as well as the course of Jewish history. When Rav Shach was already a very old man, he asked his assistant to drive him to the funeral of a woman who had passed away in Haifa. It was a […]
Read MoreYaakov’s Broken Wrist
This Tuesday, my 6-year-old Yaakov was the soccer goalie during recess, and while stopping a ball his wrist got broken. This is actually the first time a child of mine has had a broken limb. And it’s made me realize that when (you’re right-handed and) your right hand’s in a cast, many everyday actions became […]
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