Turbo Teshuva: 5 Minutes a Day to a Meaningful Elul (16-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)
Rabbi Aryeh Nivin explains how you can start living the life of your dreams this coming Rosh Hashana…All it requires is 5 minutes a day. photo credit: Ari Hahn via photopin cc
Read More“Thank You, Rabbi Nivin, I’M A KALLAH!”
This week, my teacher, life coach Rabbi Aryeh Nivin will be starting a new Personal Development Chabura. I highly recommend this life-altering Chabura to every JewishMOM reading this. Just $1 for the entire Elul course. This means that you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain by trying this out. I cannot tell you […]
Read MoreSlow Motion Moms
“I don’t know how I’m going to survive 10 days without my microwave…” I said as I passed it over at the repair center yesterday morning. The woman shrugged the kind of contemptuous shrug I might have doled out to a midwife complaining about her own stubbed toe fifteen minutes after delivering my baby. “I […]
Read More“The Sketching Rebbe” who Found Leiby Kletzky z”l, Locates Missing Brooklyn Boy
This is an edited translation of an article that appeared on B’Chadrei Charedim Shimon Zorger, a 10-year-old autistic child from Brooklyn who arrived for a visit in Kiryas Yoel, was missing since Sunday afternoon and was found exhausted in a forest on Monday. He was located after widespread searching by a combination of 100s of […]
Read MoreDon’t Miss this Opportunity to Live the Life of Your Dreams!
Why are so many women (including me) so incredibly enthusiastic about Rabbi Nivin’s Personal Development Chabura? Watch this video to hear 7 women (including me) talking about how the chabura has added transcendence, vitality, and powerful joy to our lives. Next week, a new Personal Development Chabura will be starting up. And great news, JewishMOMs…the […]
Read MoreNachlaot Boys Star in New Aharon Razel Video (3-Minutes)
In Aharon Razel’s awesomely eye-catching new music video for the song “10 People” he searches all around Nachlaot’s alleyways and marketplace for 10 people willing to join him on his roof to declare their belief in Hashem. But he can’t find a single taker…until 10 Nachlaot boys agree to join him. Loved seeing so many […]
Read MoreCoincidence is God’s Way of Remaining Anonymous
This week, I was talking with a friend about the struggle of good vs. evil, and as usual, I started talking about the Klausenberger Rebbe zts”l. A few Tisha b’Avs ago I read the Klausenberger Rebbe’s biography, and it left a permanent impression on me. The Rebbe had a wife and eleven children before the […]
Read MoreWhy We’re Taking our Son Out of Cheider
They REALLY didn’t want our Yoel in their cheider. Well, it wasn’t really Yoel they didn’t want. I guess it would be more accurate to say that they REALLY didn’t want US. They didn’t want my husband’s knit kippah and my immodest sock-less feet covered only by sandals. And they didn’t want a row of […]
Read MoreOvercoming Challenges, the Bedouin Way (8-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)
If you want to improve your life with minimal effort, you need to learn how the Bedouins light fires.
Read MoreWhen Mom Met Dad (3-Minute Marriage Video)
I just read the following in an article about Israeli-born celebrity chef Yotam Ottolenghi*: “He has been flying to Israel two or three times a year since he left for Amsterdam…'[There I have] the feeling that, when I’m at my parents’ house, anything wrong or difficult can be fixed.” Ohhhh, can I relate. Just being […]
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