My Pesach Cleaning Nemesis: Cheerios
My toddler Yaakov loves Cheerios with banana slices. Truth is, if I was willing, he would be thrilled to consume Cheerios with banana slices and no other food whatsoever. While cleaning for Pesach, I’ve been noticing Cheerios all over the place. Under book shelves. Inside beds. On window sills. Which got me wondering…How did those […]
Read MoreMy Shoes (3-Minute Important Video)
This poor boy with broken shoes dreamed of becoming the boy with new shoes, until… This reminded me of the popular saying that if we all put our challenges together in a big pile so we could really see what everyone else is struggling with in life then we would take our own challenges back.
Read MoreGetting through Life’s Tests with Joy (9-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
How to feel calm and happy even when stuck in challenging situations.
Read MorePesach and Overcoming Life’s Challenges (2-Minute Inspirational Video)
God believed in Moses, even though he didn’t think he was up to the task. And G-d believes in you too…
Read MoreHow You Can Tell Pesach is Around the Corner (6 Jerusalem Photos)
If you live in a Jewish community anywhere in the world, you can probably enter your local grocery store, and see from the shelves that Passover is on the way. Boxes of matzoh, jars of gefilte fish, cans of Manischewitz macaroons all around. But here in Jerusalem, I have gotten accustomed to different signs that […]
Read MoreMichal Gross says “Thank You, JewishMOMs!”
I will tell you the truth. When I sent off the 81 letters of condolence and encouragement you JewishMOMs wrote for the Gross family, I doubted that Michal Gross or her husband Shimmy would even see them. For one thing, I was sure the Grosses were swamped with letters, why would they even notice the […]
Read MoreWhen my Mother, the Rebbetzin, Cleaned for Pesach by Chaya Rochel Vatch
The following excerpt from Preparing for Pesach b’Simchah! by Chava Dumas is a heartwarming account by Chaya Rochel Vatch in memory of her mother, Rebbetzin Zelda Baila Rosenthal, z”l . The feeling that Pesach was approaching was so tangible, it permeated our home long before Pesach. My mother was so excited to start cleaning! I […]
Read MoreThis Week’s Best Videos, Photos, and Links
Love without Conditions: Grappling with the Death of my Husband by Batya Burd. I got so much chizuk from this article….Widow Batya Burd sounds like such an extraordinary human being Passover Cleaning Romance: Such a sweet NY Times article about a couple brought together by Passover cleaning. JewishMOM Debby Elnatan’s harness of hope enables her […]
Read MoreMaking Pre-Pesach Awesome (8-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
By investing one minute a day, you can transform these potentially stressful days leading up to Seder night into a wonderful time of year.
Read MoreThe Sky is Falling, for Real!
Last year, hackers broke into the website of a major news agency, and wrote there that a bomb had gone off in the White House and the president had been injured. It took only 3 minutes for the news agency to deny the story, but in those three minutes of fear and even panic, Wall […]
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