My Messy Kitchen Makeover
A few weeks before Pesach I posted on the Nachlaot Yahoo group that I was looking for a cleaning lady to help me out with Passover cleaning. In response, I received the followed Email, “Hello! I am a young newly wed, just moved to Israel for a short time, while my husband is studying in […]
Read MoreThe Deaf Man in the Shtiebel (4-Minute Acapella Song)
My favorite CD for the sefira period is the Lev Tahor series…and here’s my absolute favorite from Lev Tahor 3. The song tells the story of a cantor’s deaf father who finally hears his son pray one Yom Kippur. Get your kleenex ready, JewishMOM:) Just the deaf man in the Shteeble and to everyone’s […]
Read MoreWife’s Greater Reward for Husband’s Torah Learning
Wow, what an amazing story from Aleinu L’Shabei’ach by Rabbi Yitzchok Zilberstein…He says that the wife receives a greater reward than the husband when she enables him to learn Torah. “Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld told his wife: “You will certainly merit the World to Come, because here, in this world, you have always done your […]
Read MoreOur Meah Shearim Fiasco
We were going to Meah Shearim for Shabbat lunch, and I really didn’t want to do anything sore-thumb-ish that would make our hosts rue the day they invited the Weisberg clan. That meant that all of my girls, from the fourteen-year-old all the way down to the seven-year-old would have to wear tights (I made […]
Read MoreSeeing God in Nature (3-Minute Inspirational Video)
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” Albert Einstein photo credit: Moyan_Brenn via photopin cc
Read MoreHug Your Washing Machine Today! (9-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)
Hate doing laundry? Then watch this… Learn about the arduous 8-step, 3 to 4 day laundering process of our great-great grandmothers. photo credit: mallala museum via
Read MoreToto, We’re Not in Brooklyn Anymore by Michal Eisikowitz
This article is reprinted from Mishpacha Magazine Being a Brooklyn girl living in a suburb of Yerushalayim makes for a interesting ride. Small-town life in the Land of Milk and Honey, is, er, an adjustment, but I’m learning — albeit very slowly — to appreciate its advantages. One of the major perks is that it […]
Read MoreThe Impossible 3-Year-Old: 10 Years Later
This is an article that I wrote exactly ten years ago…. Today I had a terrible morning with my kids that made me cry and despair of my abilities as a mother…. Anyway, I thought we were doing just fine, leaving the house earlier than we have ever left – at 7:30 AM just in time […]
Read MoreBless this Mess
Annie was already a famous photographer by the time she met her husband, Joe. They married when Annie was 40, and she had their first child when she was 41. Yesterday, I was hanging out with Annie and her baby Emmett (that means “truth” in Hebrew) at our Independence Day barbecue. And this is what […]
Read MoreShould we Recite Hallel on Israeli Independence Day?
There’s a lot of debate about whether we should recite the Hallel prayer today, on Israeli Independence Day. My opinion? If you want to hear Hallel today, all you need to do is go outside. And you will hear that the entire Land of Israel is singing Hallel : every flower and every blade of […]
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