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The Final Selichot of the Year

Last night at the Kotel, thousands joined in song and prayer and yearning at the last Selichot before Rosh Hashanah. May Hashem bless each and every one of you with a new year abounding with magnificent blessings–spiritual, emotional, and physical. Shana tova...

A Busy Mom’s Rosh Hashana Mitzvah Checklist by Rabbi Da’vid Sperling

It’s not always easy to juggle the holiness and special mitzvot of Rosh HaShana with the holy task of taking care of kids. Here’s a basic list of the most important mitzvot of Rosh Hashana, and the simplest way to go about doing them. This is a checklist for women in general, and especially women who are taking care of children or pregnant. Hopefully, just knowing...

In the Moment by Yosef Wildes

This wonderful, newly-released song is a call to connect with the present moment and with our souls. A perfect High-Holidays wake-up call. Yosef is a frequent guest at our Shabbat table, this video gives you a taste of the soulful singing we get to enjoy whenever he comes over. Yosef is also the son of our dear friends Rabbi Mark and Jill Wildes of the Manhattan Jewish...

Queen Elizabeth’s Mitzvah

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 11, 2022 in Current Events, Inspiration | 1 comment

A beautiful and supremely fitting tribute to the late Queen by an Orthodox member of Parliament. This reminds me of the importance, at times, of doing things not because I want to, or like to, or even understand why I should. Some times, as Queen Elizabeth exemplified, I should do things because it is my […]

Our Tearful Shabbat Guest

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 11, 2022 in Inspiration, Israel | 2 comments

This past Friday we hosted guests from an upscale tourist company, the kind of company that caters to VIPs. In a few weeks they’ll be sending us a couple who, for example, will be arriving in Israel by private jet. This is a bit nerve-wracking for me. Since we aren’t the Waldorf Astoria. We are […]

Queen Elizabeth, the Imperfect Mother

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 9, 2022 in Current Events, Inspiration | 2 comments

Forgiving Queen Elizabeth, and forgiving ourselves. Shabbat shalom!

Queen Elizabeth II and the Jews

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 8, 2022 in Current Events, Inspiration | 0 comments

I, like millions around the globe I’m sure, were shocked and saddened to hear that Queen Elizabeth passed away this evening. Many of those millions, like me, have gotten to know the Queen as a human being and wife and mother and monarch through watching “The Crown.” All of us Crown viewers learned that Queen […]

My Queens Cemetery Hop

Posted by JewishMom on Sep 8, 2022 in Motherhood, My life | 2 comments

Last Thursday, early in the morning, I took a train from Baltimore to New York in order to visit several graves. What prompted this first trip to New York City in 25 years? And what prompted me to visit those specific graves that I’d never visited before? Well, I had a flight out of Newark […]