Photoshopping Real Women into Cover Models (2-Minute Viral Video)
6 million views in 11 days. That’s how deeply we women can relate to this important video in which four regular women were chosen to participate in a photo shoot, and then the resulting photos were photoshopped to make them look like skinny, gorgeous, blemish-free supermodels. The surprising thing is that the women, who previously […]
Read MoreThe Time I Got Angry at Rabbi Schuster zt”l (13-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Reflections on the time I got angry at Rabbi Meir Schuster zt”l, the man who helped bring hundreds and possibly thousands of unaffiliated Jews (including my husband) back to Judaism.
Read MoreA Birthday Surprise for Eema (5-Minute Tissue-Alert Video)
My kids wait all week to watch the high-quality, educational, and entertaining videos on the Machon Meir’s amazing site for kids (click here for the Hebrew site). I could not recommend this site more highly to you JewishMOMs for your children. Here’s a little taste of a truly heartwarming (and tear-jerking) video that recently appeared […]
Read MoreThe Nicest “NO” Ever
We are hosting two guests for all of Shabbat, but we don’t have a guest room. So this past week I’ve been looking all around for a family that can host them for sleeping. That means that this week I have been on the receiving end of a large number of “No’s.” But when I […]
Read MoreThe Grandma Who Made My Son’s New Sweater
My mother-in-law just sent the most gorgeous handmade sweater for my 17-month-old Yaakov. Here’s a photo of the sweater my dear MIL bought in a second-hand store in Kingston, Ontario, where she lives. I especially adore the carefully knitted teddy bears with matching panda buttons. Looking at this sweater, I imagine the devoted Canadian grandmother […]
Read MoreYou Won’t Believe What Happened to Me at the Mikveh by Anonymous
Ever since I read the article “Humiliated at the Mikveh” I’ve wanted to write up something about why I personally love mikveh and mikveh ladies. But like a lot of things I think of doing, I didn’t get around to it. But then something happened yesterday that you are not going to believe, and I […]
Read MoreGross Boys Released from Hospital! (2-Minute Moving Video)
B”H! The Gross boys were released from the hospital and returned home today! Both boys were smiling as they left the hospital and father Shimon said “Shehechianu!” Thank you Hashem, and thank you JewishMOMs for your heartfelt prayers that helped make this revealed miracle take place:) Translation below..Forward video to 00:55 to view footage of […]
Read MoreWhat’s the Grandfathers’ Secret?
At Yoel’s siddur party, I was watching the old men as much as I was watching my own son. I was watching Rabbi G, the sixty-something grandfather with decades as a 1st-grade teacher under his belt, as he clapped his hands and danced with abandon while he led the parade of boys to the synagogue […]
Read MoreWhat did Natalie Portman’s Orphan Tell Her? (11-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Reflections on a discussion that took place between Natalie Portman and orphan Amos Oz (whose mother she is playing) on the set of the upcoming film “A Tale of Love and Darkness.” Click here to watch on YouTube Photo courtesy of Sharon Saunders
Read MoreThe Surprising Science of Happiness (21-Minute FASCINATING TED Talk)
Turns out a year after becoming a paraplegic and winning the lottery, people are equally happy. What truly makes us happy….Fascinating stuff!!! When you have 21 minutes to speak, two million years seems like a really long time. But evolutionarily, two million years is nothing. And yet in two million years the human brain has […]
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