Spiritual Prep for Pesach from Reb. Twersky, Reb. Heller and Sara Yocheved Rigler (3 Inspirational Videos)
Scrub scrub scrub. Clean clean clean. Don’t worry, your house WILL be ready for Pesach. But what about your neshama, JewishMOM? Don’t miss these short inspirational messages for 3 amazing speakers. These teachers made these videos in order to raise money to cover the costs of life-saving surgery for Aryeh Leib Dovid ben Esther. I […]
Read MoreFlowers, flowers, flowers (2-Minute Uplifting Video)
For the last few days I’ve been walking around Jerusalem with such a big smile on my face. The world feels SO gorgeous now as warmth and spring fill the air I breathe. And here’s a perfect video in honor of the arrival of spring…The videographer photographed flowers over two days in order to capture […]
Read MoreEva Sandler at the Shiva: “I Hope to Wake Up from this Nightmare”
This post is an edited translation of this article that appeared on Ynet. What do you say to a woman whose two children and husband were slaughtered in a single minute? Eva Sandler was surrounded yesterday, the day of the funeral, with supportive family members and friends at the Beit HaLevi Yeshiva in Jerusalem. They […]
Read More3 Letters from Teddy (8-Minute Powerful Video)
A jaded teacher undergoes a change of heart which ends up changing the life of a young neglected orphan. A powerful reminder of how acts of kindness can alter the lives of those around us.
Read MoreYonatan Sandler’s Final Dvar Torah, and Eva Sandler’s First
Something extraordinary. Rabbi Yonatan Sandler HY”D was widely-known in the French-speaking Jewish community for his weekly columns on the parsha in the magazine Kountrass. His final parsha column, which he managed to submit shortly before he was murdered, appeared yesterday for parshat Tazria Metsora, and he wrote about why certain people are considered dead even […]
Read MoreSurvivors by Aliza Auerbach
What an inspirational book…Acclaimed Israeli photographer Aliza Auerbach photographed and interviewed Holocaust survivors and then took photos of them with their new Israeli families. I was moved to tears to see how, over the decades, single survivors expanded into growing clans of Jewish children, grandchildren and great-children KA”H. The truest Jewish revenge on Hitler. IY”H, […]
Read MoreFrench School-Attack Widow: “My Husband Gave his Whole Self to Learning Torah”
I am certain there’s not a JewishMOM in the world whose heart is not with Eva Sandler today, the young mother who lost two children and her husband in the savage attack yesterday in Toulouse. I personally have been crying a lot since I heard this tragic news about 24 hours ago. And as I […]
Read MoreMy Little FFBs
Moriah woke up crying from a nightmare. And then again the following night. I thought of getting advice from my mom who’s a psychiatrist, or setting up an appointment with my homeopath. But my husband had a different plan. After reading 6-year-old Moriah a bedtime story the following night, my husband took out his siddur. […]
Read MoreAre You United with Israel? (5-Minute Important Video)
This looks like a really effective and smart initiative. Changing public opinion about Israel through our facebook friends and other social media networks. Watch this video and learn how you can too can start spreading the truth about Israel. Image courtesy of James Emery
Read MoreSoldier Assists his Birthing Wife via Skype (2-Minute Beautiful Video)
This is an incredible video about the home/water birth of a woman whose husband is a US soldier in Afghanistan. I found it really moving to hear how the husband encourages his wife via Skype. I also loved how this video makes birth look so peaceful and untraumatic…(though I personally couldn’t imagine feeling so comfortable […]
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