Chanukah Prayers, Each Night
Happy Chanukah! In addition to the traditional prayers, please join me in praying for the safe return of our hostages by your Chanukah candles. Visit this link for a printable newly updated hostage list: https://jewishmom.com/wp-content/uploads/7.12-edited.pdf Let’s pray for a miracle in t-h-e-s-e days at this time, please God.
Read MoreFrom Gaza to Gan: Released 5-Year-Old Returns to Kindergarten
Adorable Emilia Aloni and her mother Daniella were B”H released by Hamas on November 24th. Yesterday Emilia’s teachers and friends, at long last, welcomed her back to Gan (one classmate tells her, “I saw you on TV!”) 2 months ago this video would have seemed like an impossible dream. We’ve experienced so many miracles like […]
Read MoreMeeting Ada, Mother of a Lone Soldier
A few weeks ago Ada from the JewishMom WhatsApp group wrote to tell me that Nefesh b’Nefesh was buying her a plane ticket to visit her 21-year-old lone-soldier son in Israel. Meeting this lovely woman tonight over hot chocolate and bourekas reminded me what a debt of gratitude we owe to our lone soldiers. To […]
Read MoreUpdated Hostage Prayer List for Chanukah
Happy Chanukah! Click here to access the newest printable prayer list 7.12 edited. Please join me in praying for the safe return of our hostages by your Chanukah candles. For a miracle in t-h-e-s-e days at this time, please God. Chanukah Sameach!
Read MoreThe Satmar Rebbe’s Grandson in Gaza
3 years ago Chaim Meislish, grandson of the Satmar Rebbe, fulfilled his childhood dream of making aliya and joining the IDF where he’s worked his way up to become a commander in the Golani Brigade. I think this photo captures the supernatural unity that we’re experiencing today. Transcending all differences in religious, ideological and political […]
Read MoreSoldiers’ Letters to Children
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Read MoreEggs Join the War Effort
The slogan “Yachad Nenatseach” (Together we’ll be victorious!) can be see all over Israel since October 7th. It’s on bumper stickers, billboards, and most Israeli websites. It’s even emblazoned on the front of buses, in place of the bus’ actual destination. So I’ve come to expect it everywhere. But this? This I did not expect! […]
Read MoreUpdated Hostage List
Shabbat shalom (sort of…) The ceasefire ended this morning following the release of 110 hostages. Approximately 129 Israeli hostages are still held in Gaza (including 2 children, whose condition is presently unclear: Kfir (10 months) and Ariel Bivas (4)). Please print up this list (a suggestion: I keep mine in my siddur marked into 7 […]
Read MoreAn Injured Soldier’s Incredible Offer by Ori Shechter
I have a friend whose son was very severely injured in the War, and lost an arm and a leg and is still connected to many machines. My friend told me that his son called over the doctor treating him and told him: “Doctor, if you think there are injured people here who need encouragement […]
Read MoreA Rainbow Over Gaza Today
Our old friend Rabbi Michael Bernstein is visiting from Atlanta on a solidarity trip and when his guide took him to see the Gaza Strip, this is the incredible spectacle that awaited him. Which reminds me of the very first rainbow. In the time of Noah, the Torah teaches, the world was full of Hamas […]
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