Generations by Shalsheles (A Moving 6-Minute Bonei Olam Video)
I’ve noticed time and time again that survivors and their children CARE more about other Jews. They are the most dedicated teachers, the most determined tikkun olam-niks. While another person might tend to think, “Everyone else is doing fine, what does it really matter if one person falls between the cracks?” the survivors and their […]
Read MoreCry No More by Yaakov Shwekey (The Official Music Video)
Despite the title, boy did this make me cry. Just what I needed to watch today with my heart so full of pain on account of all the pain-filled hearts surrounding me here in Yerushalayim…At the end of the video, I imagined the young Nachlaot victims and Hagit bat Leah’s 5 orphans walking behind Yaakov […]
Read MoreJewish Bone Marrow Donor and Recipient Meet (3-Minute Emotional Video)
The pedophile crisis in my neighborhood has torn off my blinders, flesh and all. And it hurts. It hurts terribly to realize how evil people can be. How people can purposefully hurt children so horrifically and feel zero regret for what they did. But, at the same time, realizing how evil people can be has […]
Read MoreOprah Discusses Love and Intimacy with Chassidic Women (6 Short Videos)
This week, Oprah Winfrey dedicated an entire episode of her new show to America’s “Hidden Culture,” in other words, the culture of American Chassidim. In these short clips below, Oprah meets with 4 Chassidic women in order to discuss holes in sheets and the role of the Orthodox women and separation between the sexes. She […]
Read MoreYour Child’s Brain on TV (16-Minute Important Video)
The average American child spends 40% of his/her waking hours in front of a TV! This important TED talk by a leading pediatrician and medical researcher describes the dangers of exposure to television for children. Here’s some of his scary findings: -Each hour spent daily by a child in front of TV raises his/her chance […]
Read MoreIsraeli Embassy Bombing Victim: JewishMOM Tal Yehoshua Koren
A yellow school bus pulling up to the street corner while still-drowsy, backpack-bearing children climb aboard. In my mind, there are few images that feel safer than that one. So I guess that is why news of an attack on parents or children while travelling to or home from school shocks me and feels somehow […]
Read MoreThis Week’s Mommy Peptalk: The Star of the 50th Reunion
Why my mom was the true star of her 50th high school reunion–because she doesn’t only care about being an American, she cares about being a good Jew.
Read MoreThe JewishMOM.com Despair-Busting Challenge: Week 3
Yep, things are continuing to be quite crazy here in Nachlaot. This quotation from Rav Arush about Divine punishment of evil people really hit the spot this week: Maybe you’re wondering how there are dishonest, cruel, and tyrannical people who are also fabulously wealthy. Don’t be impressed: An old Hebrew expression says “sof ganav letliya,” […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Oprah about Chassidic Brooklyn (11-Minute Video)
I love Oprah! So it really touched my heart and got me all teary-eyed to hear how much Oprah loves me and all of us JewishMOMs back… Here’s an 11-minute interview Chabad.org conducted with Oprah following her day-long visit to Chassidic Brooklyn. How moving to see the beauty of the frum world through an admiring […]
Read MoreMazal Tov to Terror Attack Widow Puah Palmer
4 months ago, 27-year old JewishMOM Puah Palmer endured every mother’s worst nightmare. In a single day, this young wife lost her husband, Asher, and her year-old son Yehonatan in a terror attack when they were driving towards their home in Kiryat Arba. B”H, last week Puah gave birth to a baby girl whom she […]
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