This Week’s Best Links, Videos, and Photos
Jewish Positive Thinking Course: I wanted to tell you about an awesome course I’ve been taking this year– Positive Jewish Thinking taught by Chaya Hinda Allen. This course is helping me so much– to stop wallowing in worrying and negative thoughts and instead to feel more hopeful and positive in life. I love Chaya Hinda’s […]
Read MoreThe Kids to Thank for the Blizzard:)
Yesterday’s headline for Israel’s largest newspaper was “Getting Ready for Snow.” So this morning, when I woke up, the first thing I did when I opened my eyes at 6:35 AM was look out the window. But there was nothing there. Just a sea of Nachlaot red-tiled roofs, white frosting-free. Maybe the meteorologists were predicting […]
Read MoreWhy I’m Vaccinating my Frum Daughter for HPV by Anonymous
My dad works in cancer research at Georgetown University Medical Center and one of his colleagues there helped develop the groundbreaking vaccine for HPV (the Human Papillomavirus) which is the main cause of cervical as well as other kinds of cancer. This vaccine has the potential to save the lives of over 150,000 people every […]
Read MoreThe Ridiculous Thing I Bought
Yesterday I was pushing my three-year-old and a one-year-old home from gan on a particularly slush-colored-sky afternoon when I looked up and saw the olive truck gliding along the street. “Look at that, Tsofia! What beautiful olives!” I called out pointing to the truck. “What? Where’s an olive? I want to see too!” And I […]
Read MoreDriving Molesters out of Jewish Schools (8-Minute Important Video)
Rabbi Avrohom Stulberger, principal of Valley Torah High School in North Hollywood, California, appeals to his fellow educators to report child molesters to the police. Thanks so much to Bracha Goetz, author of the newly-released book, Let’s Stay Pure, for sending this my way. Brooklyn District Attorney, Charles Hynes, presents an award of excellence to […]
Read MoreGrowing from Challenges (7-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Just like plants need dirt to thrive, so too we need life’s challenges to reach our ultimate potential. photo credit: cobalt123 via photopin cc
Read MoreThe Rebbe’s Gift to Me
I was really disappointed when my gym went bankrupt and closed last spring…but I’m not anymore. Because since the gym closed, instead of walking on a treadmill to nowhere, nowadays I go walking every morning to actual real-life places. I take a brisk walk alongside the Old City’s historic walls. Or through the lush grass […]
Read MoreTzippy’s Choice: I was a Cancer Orphan, but IY”H My Child won’t Be
Don’t miss this powerful video about Tzippy, a JewishMOM of 7 who tested positive for the genetic mutation associated with breast cancer. Determined that her own children should not grow up as orphans like she did, Tzippy chose to undergo difficult surgery to have her breasts and ovaries and other reproductive organs removed. The New […]
Read MoreBeating Depression from the Outside In by Sara (Chanukah Semifinalist #8)
I had been feeling very down, winter blues. It was after my article appeared on my many miscarriages and my husband was out of town for weeks on end and my children were just driving me crazy. One night I listened to a class by Esther Baila Schwartz about being happy. She asked, “How can […]
Read MoreExposing the Teacher who Molested Me by Anonymous (Chanukah Semifinalist #7)
When I was in elementary school I unfortunately experienced a trauma that I felt must be kept a secret. So I told nobody. I thought that was the right thing to do. Either that, or I was just scared to tell. When I was forced to tell, after seeing a psychologist a few years later, […]
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