5 Ways to Get Recharged
I have just finished reading the wonderful newly-released book How Does SHE Manage: Four Very Different Women Swap Ideas on Managing Home and Family (Feldheim) by Yael Wiesner. The truth is that I usually try to avoid home organization books since they generally cause me to hyperventilate and beat myself up for my near total […]
Read MoreMom who Lost Legs in Tornado Starts “Great New Chapter”
It is quite extraordinary listening to this interview with hero mom Stephanie Decker who lost both of her legs shielding her young children when a tornado hit their home on March 2nd. If I’d had to guess, I would have thought that when describing these last three months, Decker would have used words like “depressing” […]
Read MoreBoy Hears Mother’s Voice for 1st Time (2-Minute Awesome Video)
Cooper, the 2-year-old in this video, was completely deaf until he received a double cochlear implant. In this video that has been watched over 350,000 times, Cooper is hearing his mother’s voice for the first time…My favorite part of the video is between 30 and 40 seconds, when he gets so excited and waves his […]
Read MoreSaving JewishMOM Hanit Elbaz
I assume that not so many of you JewishMOMs reading this are either Yemenite, Bucharian, Georgian, Iraqi, Ethiopian or Kurdish, but I still wanted to tell you about the urgent country-wide ethnic-specific campaign being conducted by Ezer Mizion in order to save the life of a special Yemenite JewishMOM as well as several other cancer […]
Read MoreJerusalem: A Love Song (4-Minute Music Video)
“There’s something in the air that I never felt anywhere. Tell me why I’m feeling more alive with every step I take as I make my way through the heart of the Holy City…” Oy, did this song make me cry. This musician’s tribute captures why I and he and so many others have fallen […]
Read MoreShavuos Freebies
Jenny, Jenny, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jane. These were the names of all the customers hungrily waiting in the queue for their hamburgers to be ready last night at the Burgers Bar. So when they called out “Jenny,” I approached the cashier along with four other women. And somehow, in the Jenny, Jenny, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jane confusion, […]
Read MoreThe “Oh No, Please God No!” Pregnancy Test
“I went to my gynecologist to get an IUD, and I found out I was already pregnant.” My friend had given birth three months before, and now she was already a month pregnant. “I can forget about losing the 50 pounds I gained during my last pregnancy any time soon…” She looked so down, so […]
Read MoreHelp Release Grandfather, Yanky Ostreicher, from Bolivian Prison
You aren’t going to believe this JewishMOM, but it’s 100% true. Last year, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn named Jacob Ostreicher was arrested in Bolivia where he managed a rice factory. All agree that the charges against Ostreicher are 100% bogus and that his imprisonment was completely orchestrated by famously corrupt Bolivian officials in order […]
Read MoreSneak Preview of Newly-Released Rebbetzin Kanyevsky Bestseller
I just finished reading the wonderful newly-translated bestseller Tuesdays at Dawn: Stories and Advice from Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanyevsky (who passed away this Succot). For me, reading this collection of stories that Rebbetzin Kanyevsky shared over the years with the book’s author, Ruth Attias, was a magical experience. It enabled me to put aside my skepticism […]
Read MoreRebbetzin Kanyevsky’s Favorite Tips
Every day, women would visit the Rebbetzin to request advice and to receive encouragement…Here are a few of her most frequent recommendations reprinted from the newly translated bestseller Tuesday at Dawn: Stories and Advice from Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky A”H: The Cure for Everything that Ails: The Rebbetzin was very careful to study each and every […]
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