The Sweetest Lemon
Climbing up and down the back alleys of Tsfat’s Old City this past Shabbat, I came across the Garden of Eden. The courtyard of a secluded home containing an orchard bursting with fruit trees. The weird thing was that upon closer inspection I realized that all the fruit trees were of one specific type… Lemon. […]
Read MoreSpecial Needs Youth Realize Dream to Become IDF Soldiers (5-Minute Moving Video)
Meet the special soldiers of the “Great in Uniform” project of the IDF. Yet another reason to feel SO proud of Israel. Tissue alert, JewishMOM. Thanks so much to Hadassah Aber for sending this my way…
Read MoreThe Question (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Couldn’t a woman make a bigger contribution to the world if she has fewer children?
Read MoreBlack and White: A Love Story (3-Minute Inspirational Video)
Yossi Turetsky’s parents made aliya from Britain. His wife, Ruti’s parents made aliya from Ethiopia. In this inspirational music video, Yossi gives thanks to the modern miracle of the Ingathering of the Exiles to the State of Israel that brought him and his wife together after millenia spent in Africa and Europe. Today, Yossi and […]
Read MoreBye-Bye Braces
It hasn’t been an easy two years for my 16-year-old daughter Hadas. I would often notice Hadas picking at the unyielding metal scaffolding strangling her gums and pearly whites,. And as her mother, it was hard for me to see that. To know that, especially following her monthly adjustments, she was suffering from minor but […]
Read MoreEternal Hero, Fallen Israeli Soldier: Michael Levin z”l (9-Minute Memorial Video)
Michael Levin moved from his native Philadelphia to serve in the IDF, and was tragically killed in 2006 in the 2nd Lebanon War. This Memorial Day we salute and cry with all of Israel’s fallen soldiers and their families.
Read MoreThings are Out of Control, and That’s OK (8-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
It’s OK that I’m not in control. Because Hashem is.
Read MoreMommy’s Pregnant! (1-Minute Sweet Video)
LOVED the daughter’s reaction, SO SWEET! Thanks so much to Tekoa JewishMOM Yikrat Friedman for sending this my way….
Read MoreThe Bible of Bergen Belsen
If the Nazi guards at Bergen Belsen would have found the 43-page miniature Bible he drew, they would have murdered this determined father on the spot. But that didn’t stop the father of 7-year-old Dina Dasberg from drawing this Bible in order to teach his deaf daughter the greatest stories of the Jewish tradition. They […]
Read MoreMother Donates Kidney to Stranger’s Daughter After Seeing on Facebook (1-Minute Inspirational Video)
I thought this was so beautiful…a mother of a 2-year-old saw a story on Facebook about another 2-year-old in need of a kidney 1500 miles away– and she decided to donate her own kidney to save this other girls life. So heartwarming to see such a feeling of connection and empathy between mothers who have […]
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