The 2 Wheelchair Wedding (5-Minute Moving Video)
Recently Rabbi Shaul Anvari and Neta Eyal, both of them wheelchair bound, got married…I found this video about them and their wedding to be incredibly sweet and moving (English translation of the video is below). Some video highlights: -A shot of Shaul’s wheelchair decorated in white taffeta (58 seconds). -Shaul crying during his father’s blessing […]
Read MoreHow Difficult People HELP Us
Mazal tov to my learning partner Sara Deb and me on our five year anniversary this month! Sara Deb and I read a few pages every day of a Jewish book and then write to each other about what we learned (click here to read an article I once wrote about our chavruta). Right now […]
Read MoreMazal Tov, Tsofia!
Mazal tov to my daughter Tsofia Bat Tsion, who was born exactly 2 years ago yesterday… I wanted to share with you JewishMOMs the inspiring thought from my teacher Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi that inspired Tsofia’s name… Rabbanit Yemima taught: The Sefat Emet teaches a huge secret from the Woman of Valour: Tsofia—Halichot Bayta (“She oversees […]
Read MoreMy Idiot’s Guide to Potty Training
My 2-year-old Tsofia is now potty-trained. And I wanted to share my ridiculously simply approach to potty training which I found to be incredibly quick and effective as well… This approach requires 3 ingredients: 1. A toddler ready to be potty trained (a good sign that toddlers are ready to be potty trained is when […]
Read MoreFatherless Day by Abby Stein
Every JewishMOM reading this is a mother, a wife, a daughter. And that means that every single one of us reading this knows what it means to hurt a child or to be hurt as a child, whether intentionally or unintentionally. In this moving article, Abby Stein reflects on the life-long pain she has suffered […]
Read MoreA Deaf Mother’s “Thank You”
20 years ago, I told Shoshana: “I could never become religious…I’m not observant at all and nobody in my family is and none of my friends are. It would be just too big a shock if I became religious for everyone, just too surreal. I just couldn’t do it…” Shoshana answered me, “Believe me, if […]
Read MoreUnprecedented Medical Miracle: 1st ALS Patient to be Cured is Mir Rosh Yeshiva
Charedi rabbis don’t usually show up on the cover of Yediot Achronot, Israel’s #1 secular newspaper, but the unprecedented miracle that happened this month to Mir Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Rafoel Shmuelevitz landed him on the cover of Yediot this morning. Rabbi Shmuelevitz is the first ALS patient in history to be cured from this previously […]
Read MoreThe Women in MY Book…
I don’t usually give so much thought to the grandmothers and great-grandmothers I’m descended from….In fact, my knowledge of my family history is embarrassingly limited. At the old Nachlaot Rosh Hodesh parties, when we had to introduce ourselves as so-and-so bat so-and-so bat so-and-so, while there were women there who could go back 5 or […]
Read MoreWhat Rabbi Scheinberg told an Autistic Child’s Mother
The following is a letter to the editor that was printed in Binah Magazine this week. I thought this was extremely powerful, and also an important reminder for all of us JewishMOMs to refrain from passing judgment on other mothers for their children’s behavior… [I am the mother of two children with autism]. My younger […]
Read More3 Rules for Camp Safety
LA Jewish Family Services made this short instructional video to teach us parents how to have a basic, annual “Camp Safety” discussion with our kids. My kids just started camp today, so I think today’s a good day for me to have this 5-minute conversation… To learn about the outline for this conversation, you can […]
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