How the Family of Chani Weinroth A”H Celebrated her Birthday
Yesterday, Attorney Dovi Weinroth shared with his Facebook followers how he marked the 36th birthday of his late wife, legendary author and lecturer Chani Weinroth, who died of cancer last year. He also shared the chizuk he derived from an unusual source: a traffic ticket: “Today is the 22nd of Shevat. Chani’s birthday. My sweet […]
Read MoreViral Chizky’s Chizuk (1-Minute Inspirational Video)
This video of handicapped, Chassidic 9-year-old Chizky Tornheim has taken the internet by storm. Chizky Tornheim of Kiryat Sefer was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta type 2, an inherited connective tissue disorder found in 1 out of 60,000 live births, and nearly always results in death during infancy. Several years ago, Chizky was transferred from a […]
Read MoreMy Daughter vs. Bibi
Earlier today, PM Netanyahu paid a visit to the seminary where my oldest daughter, 21-year-old Hadas, is studying for the year. In this video, you can see Hadas challenging her prime minister with such a tough question regarding one of his policies* that it took him an entire 7 minutes to answer it. This video […]
Read MoreRebbetzin Shterna Sara Schneersohn’s Miraculous Pregnancy
A few years passed after their wedding, and the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Rebbe Rashab and Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah had not yet been blessed with children. Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah was very upset by this… Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah later wrote: “After the kiddush one Simchas Torah, I went into my room. I thought about the fact […]
Read MoreMazal Tov, Miriam! (3-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Some fantastic news about my next-door neighbor, a young widow. My next-door neighbor, Miriam, is a lovely person. A young grandmother in her late 50s whose husband passed away 2 years ago. You actually all heard about Miriam, because she was the anonymous nurse at Shaarei Tsedek Hospital who personally delivered the hundreds of notes […]
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If I’m a Good Mom, Why Did Things End Up So Bad?
My 6th and 8th grader wanted to go on their annual youth group Tu B’Shvat trip, so I was a good mom and signed them up. That meant that yesterday my 1st grader, Yaakov, didn’t have any older siblings to bring him home from school. So I was a good mom and took an hour […]
Read MoreThe Strangest Thing About Kids by Devorah Korolitzky
What is it with children? They make me feel like a failure and they’re my biggest success They’ve made me clean up my act and I feel like such a mess Sometimes they scream and I have to bite my tongue to not yell back They are my everything and highlight everything that I lack […]
Read MoreTu B’Shvat’s Message for Mothers by Sivan Rahav Meir
Tu b’Shvat, the festival of trees, is celebrated not in the spring but in the winter. Not at a time when everything is already blooming and ripe, but at a time when we still don’t see any results yet. Tu b’Shvat reminds us that in nature, like in life, we do not get everything we […]
Read MoreMy Mortifying Erev Shabbat (4-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
My humiliating moments in front our Shabbat guest. This past Friday night, one of our guests was a rabbanit, the wife of a well-known rabbi, who is also the granddaughter of one of the greatest rabbis of the previous generation. Before she came, I was a little nervous that I should do everything exactly right. […]
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