This Week’s Best Videos, Photos, and Links
Running a Marathon for my Son The Day We Prayed by Ruchi Koval
Read MoreThe Big Fight
In 2011, my dear friend Toby* and her husband Menashe* spent a year fighting tooth and nail for Toby’s life. But b”H, after several months of difficult chemotherapy and radiation treatments the doctors said Toby was finally clean of cancer. And then this past fall Toby and Menashe received terrifying news. Toby had found a […]
Read MoreAccessing Innate Health (13-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
How to feel calm, present, and content no matter what.
Read MoreHow Jewish Mothers are Different
Weeeeooooo, weeeeeooooooo…. 9:30 this morning and Bibi’s black limousine motorcade is flying from his house to the Prime Minister’s Office with sirens a-blare. Since Tsofia’s gan is located on Bibi’s regular morning house-to-office route, I see his motorcade (or at least hear it) at least once or even twice a week. But this morning, as […]
Read MoreA Week in the ICU with the Gross Brothers (9-Minute Awe-Inspiring Video)
For the past week and a half we’ve been hearing about the miracles taking place at Schneider Children’s Hospital second hand through news reports. But now, through this incredible video footage of the Gross brothers’ ICU stay, we can watch the miracle as it actually occurred, day by day. One thing to keep in mind–this […]
Read MoreWhat the Old Woman Told the Young Woman with Morning Sickness
This morning I noticed a pretty young woman bent over at a right angle and throwing up on the sidewalk. Oy, morning sickness. What misery…And this looks like her first time going through it. Poor girl. And then an older woman, a grandmother in a shoulder-length brown sheitl, walked up beside the pregnant woman and […]
Read MoreGross Brothers play Harp, to be Released from Hospital over Next Few Weeks
B”H, Yitzchak and Michael Gross’ condition has improved so much they have been released from the ICU to the regular hospital ward (in this photo, the brothers are playing a harp with the hospital’s music therapist). Yitzchak and Michael are still receiving medicine orally, and will need to continue rehab, such as physical therapy to […]
Read MoreThe Coolest Invitation I EVER Saw
A huge mazal tov to Rafi Swidler on his bar mitzvah which will take place the Shabbat before Purim. And here’s the awesome Nahafoch-hu invitation proud parents, Naomi and David Swidler, made in honor of the big event…
Read MoreEnjoy the Now! (14-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Finding joy in the journey of life, even when your goals feel distant or even unattainable.
Read MoreGross Brothers Speak Together for 1st Time Since Poisoning
Some amazing miracles have taking place for the Gross sons since this past Thursday, B”H… Kikar Hashabat reported this morning: “The improvement continues: The Gross brothers Chaim Michael Shlomo ben Michal and Rafael Yitzchak Isaac ben Michal who have been hospitalized for around 10 days at the Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tikva, met for […]
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