Why I’m Jealous of Dudu
If they send Dudu to Gaza, he will singlehandedly blend up the Hamas and drink them for breakfast. But in his daily life, football-physique Dudu isn’t consuming Islamic fundamentalists. On an average day Dudu manages his wine store around the corner from my house, and once a month or so I swing by there to […]
Read MoreThe Child vs. the Donut Test (2-Minute Funny Videos)
These made me laugh, I could so imagine my Yoel’s shenanigans if they had put HIM in a room alone with a donut…Makes me hungry for Chanukah:)
Read More2 Ways to Support our IDF Soldiers
I’m sure that this week all of us JewishMOMs are thinking about our holy soldiers on the Gaza border, and praying for their safety. Here’s two great programs to show the soldiers that Jews around the world are thinking about them: Shmira Project: This grassroots program pairs individual Jews worldwide with an Israeli soldier or […]
Read MoreRuchama ben Yosef: Singing My Way Through Infertility
Before you read any further, you must listen to this serious WOW of a song by JewishMOM Ruchama ben Yosef (the words are the same ones that Chana sang when she was blessed with a child named Shmuel after 19 years of infertility and hardship…) Now read what inspired it… When Ruchama ben Yosef, the […]
Read MoreWhen We Heard the Air Raid Siren…
This past Friday, I was walking down a quiet block when I noticed 4 buses half full of soldiers, and many other soldiers hugging wives and girlfriends and parents goodbye. These soldiers, I realized, were just a handful of the 75,000 IDF reservists being called up to prepare for a possible ground invasion of the […]
Read MoreNoa’s Strength: A True Story
The newly-released book Noa’s Strength by Boruch Sirisky is the story of Sirisky’s 1st wife, who died from cancer at the age of 29. A real downer, right? But what amazed me about this book is that while its ending was extremely, extremely sad, the book as a whole was also extremely, extremely uplifting and […]
Read MoreFrankenstorm’s Chicken Soup for the Soul
By far my most wonderful memory from Arden Rd., the block where I spent 14 years of my childhood, dates back to one of the worst blizzards in Baltimore’s history that took place when I was 7. The snow was up to my chest and the city would only be sending snowplows in a few […]
Read More15 Seconds to Save Your Child (1-Minute Important Video)
Over the past three days, terrorists in the Gaza Strip have fired over 120 missiles into the South of Israel (see map below). This means that at this moment over one million Israelis are living in fear of the next siren that will send them, yet again, to their bomb shelters. But this isn’t anything […]
Read MoreTwo Cemeteries
I was 17 years old and faced with a tough choice. This college or that college. Bowdoin College in distant Maine. Or Georgetown University in nearby Washington, DC. On the one hand, Bowdoin had a tiny Russian program (I wanted to major in Russian and Political Science), but its New England, small-town, cozy snow-frosted quad […]
Read MoreBaboon in Israeli Zoo Adopts Kitten (1-Minute Touching Video)
This is footage from the Ein Harod Kibbutz petting zoo. Very sweet.
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