Re: My Home Getting Knocked Down
I love my home, I would love to live in it as long as I need a home to live in. But it seems that the Jerusalem Municipality has other plans for my family, and around 250 others that live in our section Kiryat Moshe. First, some history… In the mid-1950s, the newborn State of […]
Read MoreFrom the Mother of Critically-Injured Soldier, Nathaniel Felber
3 weeks ago, IDF soldier Nathaniel Felber of Maryland and Raanana was critically injured by a Palestinian terrorist while protecting Israelis waiting at a bus stop. When Nathaniel was about to join the IDF, his mother, Judi, wrote the following article: My Son, The Soldier. This devoted mother’s moving words remind me of the self-sacrifice, […]
Read MoreMazal Tov to 2019’s 1st Israeli Baby
Mazal tov to Noa Tuito who gave birth to the first Israeli baby born this New Year, at 1 AM at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital. When I saw the photo today of Noa Tuito and her midwife, Noam Gamliel, I was reminded of the midwives Shifra and Puah, who loved G-d so much and loved their […]
Read MoreMazal Tov to Saba Bibi!
Yesterday, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu became a grandfather to his 4th grandchild, a baby girl born to his daughter Noa (on far left in this photo from a grandson’s bris)) and son-in-law Daniel Rot. Here’s a video of PM Netanyahu at the bris of his grandson, David. Much nachas to the parents and grandparents!
Read MoreOur Birthright Shabbat (2-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Reflections on the very different bedtime blessings of two Jewish mothers. I read in Ami this week about a woman who dreamed of becoming a lawyer but never did. So when that frustrated wannabe lawyer became a mother herself, every night she would tell her young daughter, “And when you grow up, you will become […]
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A Tragedy in Melbourne by Rina Jacobs
My friend Adina always has a smile on her face, and is completely committed to raising her children with Torah values. Adina is a Mum (as we spell it here is Australia) to 6 beautiful children. Whether it’s bumping into her at the park or school pick up, discussing how our babies have grown, a […]
Read MoreThe Auschwitz Sheitl Machers’ Reunion by Emuna Klein Bar-Noy
One morning this week I was sitting with the mother of a friend of Uri’s from daycare, and we were yapping on about the kind of things that we mothers yap on and on about. While we were talking, this other mother received some WhatsApps from her grandmother, and we laughed about grandmothers and her […]
Read More16 Parenting Secrets from a Mother of 13 by Rebbetzin Mina Gordon
After Rebbetzin Mina Gordon was featured as a Chanukah Contest Semifinalist, her daughter-in-law left a comment saying how surprised she had been when she first married her husband that: “…the Gordon kids sit together and praise their parents and the way they were raised. I have heard from my husband and the other Gordon children […]
Read MoreAdvice from a Mother of 8 to a Hopeless Mother of 2
Yesterday, I was talking with a neighbor who is having a very, very hard time with her 6-year-old son, Benaya, the older of her two children. Last week alone, Benaya: 1. Was sent home from school one day. 2. Was sent home another day. 3. Was not allowed to come back to school yet another […]
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