The Most Intense Pleasure (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 14, 2013 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

There is no pleasure in the world more immense than the pleasure received from doing a mitzvah, including mothering our children.

The Children are Ready (2-Minute Tisha b’Av Video)

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 14, 2013 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Jewish Moms, Motherhood | 2 comments

Baseless Hatred in the Playground

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 13, 2013 in Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 10 comments

It’s the Shabbat before Tisha b’Av, and I’m in the playground with my buddy Malka. This year, Malka’s daughter and mine were best friends in gan, which means that over the months of drop-offs and pick-ups, we became friends too. Sometimes I think that my biggest inspiration for JewishMOM.com is Israeli JewishMOMs I know. Moms […]

Why I Love Teaching Israelis by Yocheved Cohen

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 12, 2013 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

I work at an Israeli Yeshivah High School, a grades 7-12 religious boys’ school. I teach English to five different classes—about 120 students. Despite some initial apprehension about teaching boys, I have come to really enjoy it and feel that I have found a place for myself at the school. Here are some highlights of […]

Dear Rebbetzin Heller: Am I Allowed to Be a Happy Older Single?

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 11, 2013 in Inspiration, Uncategorized | 14 comments

I’ve read a lot of Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller’s books, and my reaction is always the same: “How did she get to be so smart? So wise? So constantly RIGHT ON?” Here’s an excerpt I love from her newest book, a collection of questions and answers called The Balancing Act: How to Bring the Power and […]

Waiting 34 Years for Baby Sara by Barbara Sofer

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 10, 2013 in Current Events, Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood | 24 comments

Edna and Shlomo Naki live around the back of an old, odd building that also houses a yeshiva. You go down a lane and up the stairs on a winding street in Jerusalem’s Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Their street is named for a mystic. On a play mat on the living floor, a beautiful four-month-old baby […]

TV Makeover for Chabad Home

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 10, 2013 in Uncategorized | 4 comments

Einav and Anat Vaspi, Lubavitch baalei teshuva living in Northern Israel, have suffered through two terrible tragedies. Two years ago their year-old daughter, Menucha Rachel, suddenly passed away in a freak drowning accident. And before that, their car was hit after a driver lost control of his bus, and their daughter Sheina had to have […]

A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Heaven

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 9, 2013 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos | 5 comments

I didn’t get much sleep on the flight back to Israel yesterday, since I was being blown away by the book Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Heaven. This PHENOMENAL book, which describes the near-death experience of a former skeptic and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, has spent 35 weeks on the New […]

God Bless America, Chassidic Style (1-Minute Sweet Video)

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 7, 2013 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

1st Chassidic Woman Elected to Montreal Council?

Posted by JewishMom on Jul 4, 2013 in Inspiration | 3 comments

Two years ago, young Mindy Pollack founded “Friends of Hutchinson Street” to help ease tensions between her own Chassidic community and a group of mostly French-speaking residents who opposed the expansion of a synagogue in her Montreal neighborhood, Outremont (BTW, my brother-in-law, Noah, also lives in Outremont). Now 24-year-old Pollack is running to join her […]