Pre-Pesach Shoes for the Fashionable Balabuste…LOL!
Last week I received this photo of “Pre-Pesach Shoes for the Fashionable Baalabuste.” I liked it and posted it on my facebook page, where it’s been viewed over 27,000 times! Nice to be able to make so many JewishMOMs smile during this pressured time of year:) Thanks so much to Baltimore JewishMOM Bracha Goetz for […]
Read MoreBaby Panda Loves Ball (1-Minute Adorable Video)
This made me smile! photo credit: San Diego Shooter via photopin cc
Read More5 Ways to Get Your Kids to Help Out with Pesach Cleaning– Really! by Adina Soclof
Pesach is right around the corner and I am just past the nail-biting phase. This is where I just worry about Pesach. I walk from room to room in my house, feeling overwhelmed, not sure how I am going to do it all. After 13 years of making Pesach, I know that this is an […]
Read MoreSeder Night Pleasures (9-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)
The long-term and immediate pleasures of being a JewishMOM. photo credit: Christopher_Harrison via photopin cc
Read MoreA Tip to Overcoming Anxiety by Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski
I could definitely relate to this story told by Rabbi Twerski about “morbid expectations” which I read recently in Binah, and thought this tip might be helpful to other anxious JewishMOMs too…. It is difficult to be happy if one is subject to fear and anxiety. There are some people who experience “morbid expectations.” For […]
Read MoreThe Cult I Joined
Ten years ago I joined a cult. Of course, like most people who join cults, I didn’t realize I’d joined one until I dropped out of it… A lot of frum moms from the neighborhood and all over Israel had joined. And the group facilitator was Orthodox. But then rabbis starting condemning it. And the […]
Read MoreThe Special Child (3-Minute Moving Video)
In honor of Disability Awareness Month, I’m posting this video about Beit Issie Shapiro, an Israeli organization that serves over 30,000 special children a year. Beit Issie Shapiro has even recently been appointed as a Disabilities Adviser to the UN (only Israel’s 7th advisor to the UN) so they are a real light unto the […]
Read MoreThe Siddur at Bin Laden’s Assassination
What an incredible story I just read in this month’s issue of Zman Magazine. When Chaim Sorotzkin of Lakewood married his wife, she gave him a leather-bound siddur with his name stamped in gold on the cover. Sorotzkin had used his beloved siddur every day of his 11 years of marriage…. Until 2 years ago, […]
Read MoreThe Woman with 12 Kids by Varda Epstein
Sometimes I think I had 12 kids just for the shock value that fact elicits when dropped into casual conversations. At other times, I find myself resentful at being defined by something that is, after all, just a matter of biology: “You know, Varda—that woman with the 12 kids? Yeah. Her.” It can be kind […]
Read MoreAm I Nothing More than a Cleaning Lady? (8-Minute Mommy Peptalk Video)
A JewishMOM cleans and organizes and cooks, especially before Pesach. AND she also has an earthshaking spiritual impact on her family as well. photo credit:
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