Show the Boys’ Families How Much You Care
I am sure that all of you JewishMOMs are thinking about the boys and davening that they should return home very soon, safe and sound. Now’s your chance to reach out to these suffering families so they can SEE with their own eyes how much we JewishMOMs from all over the world care about them […]
Read MoreEyal Yifrach’s Father and Mother Speak (2-Minute Video)
The 1st public statement by the parents of Eyal Yifrach. Uri Yifrach (Eyal’s father): Today we are coming out of our home to the Jewish people, to this strong and wonderful people. We are believers and children of believers, and we believe that everything Hashem does is for the best. We want to say “Thank […]
Read MoreHashem, Where are You?
“OK, two thank you Hashems” I prompted my daughter yesterday as she ate her scrambled eggs coated with white cheese. This is a longstanding Weisberg tradition: kids come home from school and share two good things that happened to them that day. “I don’t have anything to say today,” my daughter declared. “What? There must […]
Read MoreMy Friend, Racheli, the Hostage’s Mother
You’ve probably heard by now that 3 Israeli teenagers were kidnapped this past Thursday by Hamas terrorists. One of those boys, Naftali Frankel, is the son of my friend Racheli Sprecher Frankel who is my husband’s coworker at Nishmat, the women’s yeshiva where they both teach. Racheli is one of the most impressive people I […]
Read MoreAccepting Yourself (9-Minute Peptalk)
Accepting yourself is the first step towards growth.
Read MoreFreak Smiling Rice
JewishMOM Yehudit Levy of Elad was checking rice when she came across this smiling grain! Yehudit thought maybe this means Hashem is smiling at rice-checkers everywhere;)
Read MoreBalabusta Regrets
As a grown woman, Yale Law-graduate Sonia Taitz pays tribute to her balabusta mother whom she used to disdain: In her memoir “The Watchmaker’s Daughter” Taitz writes: “I never learned to make that cake, chopped liver, flanken, or matzoh balls. All I can do is order in, and I blame feminism for that, for my […]
Read MoreThe Disappointment Prayer
I read this Disappointment Prayer in Garden of Gratitude by Rabbi Shalom Arush (one of my favorite books of all time). My teacher, Rabbi Nivin, coined a great phrase: refrigerator Torah. When there is a teaching he considers so important that we should tape it to our fridge so that we see it several times […]
Read MoreThe Cake I DID NOT Want to Make
“Eema, can you pleeeease make a cake for tomorrow, OK?” Yoel pleaded yesterday as I was heading out the door for a wedding. And then he handed me this note from his teacher Rabbi G.: The note says, “Yoel volunteered his dear mother to prepare a cake to celebrate our completion of Parshat Vayeshev, tomorrow, […]
Read MoreDove’s Tribute to Dads (1-Minute Tissue Alert Video)
JewishMOM, pass this on to a JewishDAD you love:)
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