My Walk through the Jerusalem Forest

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 29, 2016 in Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life, Uncategorized | 2 comments

A few weeks ago, I was looking over my goals for this year which I wrote up before Rosh Hashana (my elul plan, for all those lucky Rabbi Nivin-ites out there) and realized that I had conveniently and completely forgotten about my plan to “go on a brisk walk every day for at least 15 […]

Balanced Parenting and Life (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 28, 2016 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life, Uncategorized | 1 comment

Finding the right balance in parenting and in our daily lives. https://vimeo.com/157016075

A New Song I am Loving: “Saves Me Every Day” by Yishai Rivo

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 25, 2016 in Inspiration, Israel | 17 comments

You know when you get really into a song, and find yourself listening to it over and over and over. Well, that’s what I’ve been doing this week since my daughter told me about this new song by Israeli musician, Yishai Rivo. I love the song’s image of the clouds that will return to wash […]

Every Child is 1 Caring Adult Away from Being a Success Story (16-Minute Life-Altering Video)

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 24, 2016 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Motherhood | 2 comments

Youth Advocate Josh Shipp was a foster kid who was every parent’s worst nightmare. Yet Josh had one adult who refused to give up on him, and that eventually changed the course of his life. Watching this video I laughed (hard!), I cried, and I thought about how I too can do a better job […]

14-Year-Old Chooses Shabbat over the Olympics

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 23, 2016 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

9th grader, Estee Ackerman, is ranked 14 in the US for table tennis. But when this year’s olympic trials, and Estee’s final shot at making the team for the 2016 Rio olympics, coincided with Shabbat, Estee decided to pass on her shot at making the olympic team. She told Chabad.org, “I was disappointed; I love […]

When Yaakov Saw Angels in the Rainstorm

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 23, 2016 in Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 4 comments

My 3-year-old Yaakov loves to sing. This past Shabbat he serenaded us all with a song his ganenet sang for him in gan. Or, to be more accurate, a song Yaakov heard his ganenet sing: “Kol HaOlam Kulo, Gesher Tsav Meod! Gesher Tsav Meod!” “Yaakov,” I asked him, “What do you mean? Gesher Tsav meod?” […]

God’s Gift to Nursing Mothers

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 22, 2016 in Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood | 1 comment

Recovering from Tragedy (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 21, 2016 in Current Events, Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 3 comments

Reflections on people I know coping with extreme challenges. https://vimeo.com/156146030

When One Mother’s Intuition Saved her Grandchild

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 18, 2016 in Inspiration, Uncategorized | 1 comment

One of the many nice things about moving to Kiryat Moshe is that now almost every day I see our old friends and now neighbors, Noam* and Einat.* Josh went to yeshiva with Noam when Josh first came to Israel 25 years ago. B”H, 13 years ago we danced at Noam and Einat’s wedding, and […]

Dafna Meir’s Final Letter to her Son

Posted by JewishMom on Feb 17, 2016 in Current Events, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood | 4 comments

This week, hundreds of people gathered in Jerusalem to pay tribute to Dafna Meir HY”D, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist at the entrance to her home in Otniel a month ago. 15-year-old Akiva Meir shared the letter his mother wrote to him several months before, and which he sees today as a goodbye […]