Corn Flake Conniption
My 3-year-old Tsofia likes her 7:45 AM bowl of cereal just so. “Tsofia, which cornflakes do you want?” I asked her this morning, as I do every morning. And like every morning, she answered, “Yellow.” So I poured some of the Telma cornflakes into her bowl (NOT “Rooster”—that’s Kelloggs. NOT “bag” cornflakes—that’s the generic Turkish-made). […]
Read MoreWow, Can this Frum Girl Sing! (3-Minute Music Video)
What a gifted singer and what moving lyrics. It had never occurred to me before that life is like a heartbeat, how true…Made me cry:) lyrics HEARTBEAT By nechama cohen Sometimes your faith Seems to escape through The cracks that you never knew you made Sometimes the pain Tries to consume you But time keeps […]
Read MoreThis Week’s Best Links, Videos, and Photos
The Coca Cola Best-Ever Parenting Video (warning: this video might be overly immodest for sensitive viewers) “Warning” Predators Doesn’t Work: Please Stand With Our Children and Help Put Convicted Child Molester Moshe Turner in Jail by Rabbi Yakov Horowitz Request Maximum Jail-Time for Serial Monsey Pedophile Mosher Turner currently free on probation Kippa-wearing Division I […]
Read MoreAliya at 87 by Channah Rachel Herrmann
I am an only child, so it wasn’t easy at all for me to move to Israel 29 years ago and leave my parents behind in LA. When I came here in 1985 my father said that he felt like Yitro in next week’s parsha, who felt a mixture of sadness and happiness when the […]
Read More2000-Year-Old Mikveh Discovered (2-Minute Interesting Video)
I thought this was pretty wow. Archeologists recently discovered a 2nd Temple Period mikveh in Jerusalem. Such a powerful reminder that when we go to the mikveh we are doing something that our grandmothers and grandmothers’ grandmothers did as well, for thousands of years back to Temple times and beyond.
Read MoreThe Crying Bar Mitzvah Boy’s Song (4-Minute Moving Video)
What a moving video…to see bar mitzvah boy Natanel Dabush crying with gratitude for his life and for Hashem’s closeness at difficult times. Several commentors on the YouTube video explain that Dabush has an incredible personal story: he grew up nearly blind, and after many failed attempts to restore his sight over the years, he […]
Read MoreOnly 4 Days Left to Join $100 Gratitude Contest
Listen up, JewishMOM:) This Friday is the final day to send me your photo submissions for the JewishMOM.com $100 Gratitude Contest. IY”H I’ll be posting the semifinalists this coming Sunday… Here’s how the contest works: send me SEVEN photos with short captions of things you are grateful for in your life (PLEASE NOTE: MAXIMUM ONE […]
Read MoreRemembering Frida Mizrahi z”l
Reflections on an inspirational Mexican JewishMOM matriarch who passed away last week.
Read MoreI’m in a TV Commercial! (2-Minute Video)
In this week’s peptalk “You’re Not Going to Believe why I’m Gonna Be on TV” I tell the surreal story of how I ended up being interviewed for a Israeli TV commercial for cubed beets. For those of you who didn’t see the peptalk, I explained how I went to the market two weeks ago […]
Read MoreJewishMOM.com’s Top 10 of 2013
I guess this is a great opportunity to thank you JewishMOM.com readers for helping to make this such an awesome year at JewishMOM.com. What have YOU done for JewishMOM.com, you ask? A bunch of things: you sent me inspirational videos and links so I always have something inspiring and cool to post to lift your […]
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