My Daughter’s Special SMS
I just got back from an overnight community-center trip for women to the Dead Sea. I had so much fun! I soaked in the spa, danced zumba, stuffed myself on incredible food (back to the diet tomorrow–I promise!) and enjoyed the salty calm, great company, and spectacular view. But the sweetest moment of the entire […]
Read MoreYaakov’s Boo-Boo
Last week, 5-year-old Yaakov got a scratch on his left thumb. And today he looked at his thumb–and the scratch was gone. Yaakov began jumping up an down, “We have to tell Abba! Hashem made a great, great, great miracle!” “What miracle?” I asked. “I had a scratch, and now it’s completely gone! It’s a […]
Read MoreUS Vice President Recites “Shehechiyanu”
It is a top priority for me to keep JewishMOM.com free of politics–since I believe that the eternal bond between all JewishMOMs is so much deeper and more important than whom you or I voted for on November 8, 2016. But I got so much chizuk from this super-inspirational speech by American Vice President Mike […]
Read MoreThe Sad Bar Mitzvah
My friend just made a bar mitzvah for her oldest son, where I had an opportunity to speak with the proud grandfather, Michelle, emotional to be celebrating the bar mitzvah of his oldest grandchild. This is what he told me: “I grew up in Egypt, so when I became bar mitzvah in 1954, it was […]
Read MoreMy Broken Printer (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
A few simple steps to dealing with frustration.
Read MoreChani Weinrott’s Widower, Dovi: “How I’m Not Falling Apart”
Last night, in honor of the publication of her new book “How She Grows,” Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi hosted an evening featuring various people who have faced life-altering challenges and grown from them. Among the speakers was Dovi Weinrott, the widower of one of the most dearly loved people in Israel, Chani Weinrott z”l, who passed […]
Read MoreMy Womb Dance
This is going to sound weird, but bear with me for a few sentences, OK? At Devora’s Dance Journey workshop this morning, we closed ourselves up in these cool black sleeping bag things that Devora had sewn up, and pretended we were back in the womb. It was truly wow. Closed up in my womb […]
Read MoreThe French Grandmother’s Funeral
This morning, I attended the funeral of my neighbor’s elderly mother, whose body was flown in from France. All the eulogies were in French, which meant that for an hour or so I stood there, understanding only the smattering of French words I still remember from junior-high-school and the few Hebrew words thrown in from […]
Read MoreOur Dead Palm Tree
When I came to see our new house for the first time 3 years ago, the first thing I noticed about it was the huge palm tree in the front yard. After we moved in, I loved how our beautiful tree filled the bedroom window with green. On sunny days we enjoyed its shade. And […]
Read MoreThe 38-Year-Old Bride (13-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Finding the blessings in an extended life challenge.
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