What Mothers Look Like by the End of Summer Vacation
Even if I didn’t know the date, I would know we are in the home stretch of summer vacation just from seeing the worn out faces and tired eyes of mothers across Jerusalem. This morning I was walking along the street with 20-month-old Yonatan, when I found myself walking right behind one of those mothers […]
Read MoreWhen You are Forced to Do Something You Don’t Want to Do–New-Orleans Style
At my mother-in-law’s cottage I spent many hours doing one of my favorite things in the world–reading old New Yorkers. And while there, I read one article called Starting Over by Malcolm Gladwell which I found truly inspirational, about the fate of the New Orleans evacuees from Hurricane Katrina in 1995. I found this article […]
Read MoreDissolving Negative Charges against Other People (14-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
How and why we should overcome negative charges against the difficult people in our lives. Dissolving Negative Charges Against Others 14 Minute Mommy Peptalk from Chana Jenny Weisberg on Vimeo.
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When the Lubavitcher Rebbe Told Elie Wiesel he Must become a Father
In 1965, when Holocaust activist and Nobel-prize winner Elie Wiesel was still a 37-year-old bachelor, the Lubavitcher Rebbe wrote Wiesel a letter imploring him to get married and have a child–the most powerful possible response, the Rebbe insisted, to Hitler’s Final Solution. This letter, translated from the original Yiddish, was published last month in Ami […]
Read MoreWhat I am Loving About this Summer Vacation
Every day this month I have looked at the calendar and thought something like: “the 9th of August, only 22 more days until school starts!” I salivate at the thought of September 1st, and with it the return of kidless mornings, which (on account of our trip and then babysitter-break August) have eluded me all […]
Read MorePre-Tisha-B’Av Scrumptious Dairy Food Celebration?
Last Thursday night we entered the 9 Days of mourning leading up to the anniversary of the destruction of the Temple, Tisha B’Av. Tisha b’Av is the saddest day of the Jewish calendar when we remember all the tragedies suffered by the Jewish people during this long and bitter exile. During these 9 Days, in […]
Read MoreGetting Negative Thinking Under Control (8-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Reflections on Canadian weather and negative thinking. Getting Negative Thinking Under Control (8 Minute Mommy Peptalk) from Chana Jenny Weisberg on Vimeo.
Read MoreWhat Happened When my 3-Year-Old Wore his Kippah in Germany
Following his first haircut a year ago, Yaakov wore his kippah every single day to gan and pretty much everywhere. He was a big boy, like his Abba and his older brother, and he was proud. But this summer, during our visits with non-religious and non-Jewish family members in the US and Canada, Yaakov pretty […]
Read MoreHow this Summer is Different from That Summer
Last time I was here at my mother-in-law’s Ontario cottage was two summers ago. That summer, Blue Lake was a refuge for me and my family. From everything happening in Israel…. From the war with Gaza. From the missiles and sirens and the feeling that the entire world was against us. From Nachlaot, our old […]
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