The Prague Shabbat Project Challah-Bake (13-Minute Mommy Peptalk)

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 29, 2018 in Current Events, Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 2 comments

Instead of my regular weekly peptalk, here is a video of how I started off Prague’s Shabbat-Project Challah-Bake this last Thursday.

JewishMOMs Stand with Pittsburgh

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 28, 2018 in Current Events, Inspiration | 0 comments

Prague JewishMOMs

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 25, 2018 in Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 5 comments

My husband and I just arrived in Prague yesterday, to help out with the Jewish community’s special Shabbat Project events. This is actually my third time in Prague. I was here in 1989, on my way back from a high-school trip to the (not yet Former) Soviet Union. After a month spent in dreary Volgograd […]

The Blessing of a Broken Washing Machine

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 23, 2018 in Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood | 11 comments

Two weeks ago, half way up my mountain of Chol HaMoed laundry, our overworked washing machine, of blessed memory, spinned its last. And that meant that for two weeks, until yesterday, my family of 10 did not have a washing machine. It was, as you can imagine, quite a pain. But I want to tell […]

Why are Jews are So Smart? Asia’s Wealthiest Man Answers (2-Minute Inspirational Video)

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 22, 2018 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Israel | 1 comment

Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, speaks about his deep admiration for Israel and the Jewish people at Tel Aviv University, where he was granted an honorary doctorate this past May.

Guess Where We’re Going this Week…(4-Minute Mommy Peptalk)

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 21, 2018 in Current Events, Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, My life | 2 comments

My husband and I are going to another country this week, for a very special occasion… This coming Shabbat, over a million Jews in 97 countries and 1416 cities will be keeping Shabbat as part of the 5th Annual Shabbat Project. The Jewish community of Prague has invited my husband, Joshua, and me to be […]

Great-Grandma Jenny’s Sense of Humor

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 18, 2018 in Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 5 comments

My namesake, my great-grandmother Jenny, had a great sense of humor. She had trained as a secretary, but after she married, she never worked outside the home again. She was very busy– with her 2 children and with her home–doing laundry in tubs in the basement and sweeping the sidewalks every day to clear away […]

Paramedic Shira Applebaum Continues Legacy of Her Father HY”D

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 17, 2018 in Current Events, Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Israel, My life | 0 comments

In honor of Rachel Imenu’s yahrzeit this Shabbat, over a hundred thousand Jews will flock to Bethlehem to pray at Rachel’s Tomb. And when they see the Torah Curtain, made out of a wedding dress that was never worn, those who are old enough to remember will be jolted by the memory of one of […]

The Nobel-Prize Winner’s Chassidic Niece

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 16, 2018 in Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 7 comments

One morning, a few days ago, I read that Professor William Nordhaus of Yale had just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his groundbreaking research on preventing climate change. Later that morning, my phone rang. It was my dear friend who was about to leave on a short trip abroad with her husband. […]

The VIPs Who Came for Shabbos (2-Minute Mommy Peptalk)

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 15, 2018 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 12 comments

Some thoughts on our Shabbat guests this week: a delegation of Catholic American VIPs. (I’m sorry to be posting this on Monday instead of Sunday as I usually do…) We hosted a fascinating group for Shabbat this week: a group of American Catholic VIPs interested in strengthening the connection with Israel. Among our guests were […]