The Man Least Likely to Finish the Talmud
Seven and a half years ago, businessman Howard Finger had never even opened a Talmud or stepped foot inside a yeshiva. But last week, 2711 pages later, Finger celebrated his completion of the Babylonian Talmud. Finger’s heartwarming story appears along with many others in the article “The Hadran Heard Round the World: Pictures and Perspectives […]
Read MoreMikvah: Splish-Splash, is it a Jewish Bath? (5-Minute Jew in the City Video)
I love all the Jew in the City videos, she’s the best! This new one about the essence of mikvah was released yesterday…I especially love the part at the end when all sorts of different Jewish women say that they go to the mikvah too. Special thanks to Ilana Gold for sending this my way! […]
Read MoreThe Honor-Your-Mother Gold Medal Winner
“Eema always said…” “For Eema, that was completely unacceptable…” “In Eema’s house, there was one clear rule…” I could listen to my long-time teacher Rabbanit Esther Levanon giving classes from sunrise to sunset, and I don’t think I would ever get bored of her practical, advice and anecdote-filled lectures for mothers and wives and Jewish […]
Read MoreThe Sikh Temple Massacre and Yaakov Shwekey
“Wisconsin Killer Fed and Was Fueled by Hate-Driven Music” That was the New York Times’ front page headline this morning about Wade Page, the white-supremacist who murdered 6 people at a Sikh Temple outside of Milwaukee this week. I don’t tend to think of music as something so important or powerful. For me, I guess, […]
Read MoreThe Best Advice I Ever Got
A few years back, two women who read this website highly recommended that I try out Rabbi Aryeh Nivin’s Personal Development Program. So for some reason, I decided to put on my goggles, and dive in. And in the end, this advice from those two JewishMOMs turned out to be the best advice I’ve ever […]
Read MoreResearchers Say: Motherhood May Make You Smarter
Researchers say that having a child may improve a woman’s memory. In the study conducted by doctoral candidate Melissa Santiago, mothers scored better on tests of visuospatial memory — the ability to perceive and remember information about their surroundings — compared with women who didn’t have children. Santiago presented the findings from her preliminary study […]
Read MoreGroup of Women Complete Full Talmud (3-Minute Inspirational Video)
90,000 men gathered last week to celebrate the Siyum Hashas in New Jersey, after 7.5 years of learning the entire Babylonian Talmud page by page. And in Jerusalem, a small group of women gathered to celebrate their own completion of the Talmud. I especially loved to see all the JewishMOMs and grandmothers in the final […]
Read MoreMeeting the Birth Mother
Most international adoptions are closed adoptions which means the adopted child and adoptive parents are not provided with information regarding the child’s birth mother. But when adoptive mother Elizabeth Foy Larsen and her husband adopted a baby from Guatemala, they hired a “searcher” in order to track down their daughter’s birth mother. When they finally […]
Read MoreClinical Death Returnee Saw Rabbi at Heavenly Court
This past week, I’ve been sharing this mind-blowing story recently around the neighborhood, and in response at least one of my friends laughed very, very hard at me. I personally think that if Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu let this mindblowing story into the book of stories he edited about his father, it must be true. What […]
Read MoreChabad Emissary is “Ultimate Jewish Mom”
Australian Jewish News selected Chabad Shlucha Laya Slavin as the winner of their Ultimate Jewish Mom Contest. Mazal tov, Laya!
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