Goofy Tsoofy Highlights
My kids tend to remain in their terrible twos for two years, so poor me, my kids have put me through terrible twos times two. But even though, like her siblings, Tsofia was a challenging two-year-old and three-year-old, now at the age of four, I am finding that she causes me to smile far more […]
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The Bathtub Birth by Sara Goldstein
This story appears in the newly-released book A Doula’s Journey: Into the World of Birth by Sara Goldstein: After accompanying Etti to six out of seven births, our relationship was more than client/professional. We had become friends. I had attended her celebrations after her babies were born, met her extended family and attended births of […]
Read MoreHe Saved My Daughter’s Life, and Then She Saved Him by Susie T.
My family has experienced some tough challenges over the last few years, so I was happy to cut off from real life this past summer and go to visit my parents outside of London at the beginning of this past summer vacation. That meant that when my daughter Tali was in an accident on July […]
Read MoreEternity Child
On July 17, 1968 a horrific tragedy struck my family. On that day, also known as the 24th of Tammuz, my mother’s parents and grandmother were killed in a freak and devastating car accident in New York City. I was born three years later, so I never knew those grandparents. Though I’ve tried over the […]
Read MoreMaking a Difference (10-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
The small things you do can make a huge difference in another person’s life…
Read MoreThe Days are Long, the Years are Short (2-Minute Tissue-Alert Video)
The school year only just started, and I’m already burnt out from getting my 4-year-old ready in the mornings and getting her back and forth to nursery school. Knew I needed to watch this video again. It’s the kind of video every mom of young kids should watch every day. Tissue alert, JewishMOM.
Read MoreBathroom Telegram
My Email chavruta, Sara Debbie, and I just started learning the book Rav Schwab on Prayer (Artscroll). This tome of a book is 596 pages long, and we are only reading 2 pages a day, so this is going to take a while…But we’re already really getting a lot out of it. We just read […]
Read MoreWhat I Learned from Rafael Elisha’s Cancer by his Mother, Devorah Cohen
(Last winter, over 100,000 people across the globe signed a petition urging the FDA to approve an alternative treatment for 6-year-old Rafael Elisha Cohen of Houston. Tragically, last spring he passed away. Here are some thoughts his mother, Devorah Cohen, requested I post to share with you JewishMOMs) There are many lessons that I learned […]
Read MoreHoly Letters: The 1st Day of Cheider (3-Minute Tissue-Alert Video)
So moving and beautiful…Translation below. Narrator: One after another, 25 3-year-old boys wrapped in tallitot were carried yesterday [by their fathers] for the ceremony welcoming them to the Cheider Ohalei Torah in Kfar Chabad. The day that a child enters cheider is considered holy and joyful. Traditionally, this ceremony is considered a way to ease […]
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