Our Victory: The Grandchildren of Concentration Camp Survivors (6 Photos)
They survived Aushwitz and Buchenwald, the Death March, and Mengele’s laboratory of horrors. 70 years after they survived Hell on Earth, the 6 survivors chosen to light the torches this year at Israel’s Yom HaShoah Memorial Ceremony, embrace 90 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Our greatest victory over our enemies is our joy. Our greatest victory […]
Read MoreHundreds of Strangers Attend Funeral of Childless Holocaust Survivor
As the result of medical experiments performed on her at Auschwitz, 92-year-old Holocaust survivor Chaya Gretman was never able to bear any children of her own. So when she passed away this week, through Facebook and other social media sites her devoted neighbors asked for people to join her funeral procession and recite Kaddish on […]
Read More1st Art Exhibition of World’s Oldest Fanconi Anemia Survivor
This is a photograph of my amazing neighbor and old friend, Ruthy Saunders. At 34, Ruthy is the oldest person in the world with her type of Fanconi Anemia. Last night I attended Ruthy’s first art exhibition—sponsored by Beit HaGalgalim, a center for handicapped young adults which Ruthy attends. For the past few months, the […]
Read MoreThe 1st Thing My Yaakov Ate After Pesach
Sunday morning I came downstairs and discovered my 2-year-old eating this sandwich–two slices of bread with three slices of bread between them:)
Read MoreThe Woman From Another Planet
This morning I snuck into Bank Leumi to sit down and nurse, and while there I saw a woman from a different planet. The elderly woman sitting in front of me looked like she had just landed from 1950s Morocco and was hopelessly bewildered by the high-tech world of 2015 banking. “Geveret!” she appealed to […]
Read MoreMy Pesach Miracle (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
This Pesach, Hashem redeemed my family from a neighborhood criminal and bully.
Read MoreThe Chocolate Pudding Commandments
Yesterday I asked my 7-year-old Yoel and his sister to go to the corner store to pick up some chocolate puddings for our daily Pesach breakfast. When he got home, Yoel informed me with a proud smile, “Eema, when I bought these puddings, I observed one of the ten commandments!” “Oh yeah? Which one?” “You […]
Read MorePesach Energy-Sapper of the Day “I Can’t Stand this! My Family is Driving me Nuts!”
Today’s Pesach Energy Sapper comes from Rebbetzin Esther Bayla Schwartz whose series of daily Pesach Prep Inspiration segments on the free Chazak Hotline is providing me much chizuk for the final stretch until Seder night. In one of the classes, Rebbetzin Schwartz, who is one of my favorite speakers, told the shared the following: The […]
Read More
Pesach Energy-Sapper of the Day: “If Only We Had Money to Go Away to a Hotel!”
Pesach Energy-Sapper #6: “I WANT TRANQUILITY. MAYBE ONE DAY WE CAN MAKE ENOUGH MONEY SO THAT WE CAN GO AWAY TO A HOTEL FOR ALL OF PESACH. THEN I WOULDN’T HAVE TO CLEAN AT ALL!” Rabbi Aryeh Nivin’s Response: Preparing for Pesach is an avoda, and the word “Avoda” means two things: it means serving […]
Read More