Stencil Fun at the Weisbergs
Remember I wrote a few months back about my postpartum nesting instinct? Well, part of that involved painting lots of stencils with my 13-year-old Hallel (more like, I bought the stencils and paints, and she painted them…) Stencils are such a simple way to pretty-up any room, and make your house feel like your own. […]
Read MoreMy Israeli Kids
Just yesterday, I was sitting on my living room sofa changing Yaakov’s diaper when I found myself humming a song… “What is that?” I wondered…And I had no clue what I was humming until, AHA!, I figured it out. I was singing this: Up until the age of 17 I spent, on average, 5 […]
Read MoreThe Rashba Reveals Himself in Dream
Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein, author of Aleinu L’Shabei’ach, recalls: The value of a Jew who safeguards the regularity of his learning sessions is inestimable. The following wonderful story happened to a member of a daily Talmud class in Bnei Brak. I heard the story from a certain renowned Torah scholar who, over the course of many […]
Read MoreA Miraculous Wedding in Belz
The story of the Belzer Chassidim is a true-life story of revival of the dead. This is their incredible tale according to Wikipedia (I’ve edited a bit)…. In 1939, with the Nazi invasion of Poland, the town of Belz was in a panic. The Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, known as “Wonder Rebbe” on account […]
Read MoreMoshiach Alley (7-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)
About the holy JewishMOM who lives at the end of Tsfat’s Moshiach Alley. Here’s a video of a tour guide talking about Moshiach Alley
Read MoreIn Search of the Man who Broke My Neck (18-Minute Powerful TED Talk)
In 1990 19-year-old American Joshua Prager became a paraplegic after a reckless truck driver with 27 traffic violations crashed into the minivan he was in, killing one person and seriously injuring several others. 16 years later, Prager travels to meet the man who injured him, hoping to hear two words: “I’m sorry.” How Prager chooses […]
Read More3 Tips on Being a Better Parent (2-Minute Lori Palatnik Video)
Each of your children is a match made in Heaven.
Read MoreA Jew’s Response to a Nazi
“…Before Pesach in the Starchowitz labor camp, Reb Yossel [Friedenson] and his friends negotiated some extra flour and found a way to bake matzos in a 2,000-degree oven. While the Jews were eating the cherished few crumbs, a German officer strode into the barracks and saw their meager rations of bread had been left untouched. […]
Read MoreThe Rebbe’s Smile
It’s worth the schlep just to see the Rebbe’s smile. Every Lag Baomer morning I take my kids to the Slonim shul in Meah Shearim in order to watch the Rebbe cut the first snip from the 3-year-old Upsherin boys. My kids love the orange Superdrink and chocolate rugelach that they can gobble up to […]
Read MoreMonkey Business (6-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)
Learn how to trap a monkey, and how to set yourself free…. photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar via photopin cc
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