Dear Rebbetzin Heller: Should I Follow the News?
I love these question and answer sessions with Rebbetzin Heller from Naaleh.com… Here is the Rebbetzin’s thought-provoking answer to a woman who questions whether or not she should follow the news. Forward the video to 38:30 to watch her response:
Read MoreMeet Happiness Guru, Gretchen Rubin
I love this woman, she is totally my soul sister. About two hours ago I stumbled across one of bestselling author Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project videos on YouTube, and for the past 120 minutes I have been chain-watching her videos, enthralled by her and her down-to-earth wisdom on what has helped her to become a […]
Read MoreBoatlift: An Untold Tale of 9/11 Heroism (11-Minute Video)
This video, narrated by actor Tom Hanks, tells the incredibly inspirational tale of the unsung men who carried out one of the largest evacuations by sea in human history– the transport of over half a million people from Manhattan on 9/11. What a powerful reminder for all of us (as well as for the almost […]
Read MoreWeddings and Wine by Charlie Harrary (3-Minute Video)
LOVED this. I love all of Charlie Harrary’s videos, but this one is especially inspiring. What a beautiful way of seeing marriage…
Read MoreThis Week’s Mommy Peptalk: Feeling Grateful at Tough Times (16-Minute Video)
An update on the Nachlaot Pedophile Crisis and 11 reasons I am feeling grateful to Hashem right now.
Read MoreRivka Imenu’s Traumatic Pregnancy by Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi
I was blown away by this powerful description of Rivka’s pregnancy with Esav and Yaakov by my teacher and mentor Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi Rivka was a prophetess and during her pregnancy with Esav and Yaakov she was under greater stress than any woman in history. Rivka knew that within her she was carrying the greatest […]
Read MoreGiving Thanks
A few days ago, an older woman knocked on my door and asked if she could see my home. She explained, a bit embarrassed, that close to 70 years ago she had lived in my living room with her parents and five siblings. The woman, who introduced herself as Levana, immediately struck me as someone […]
Read MoreWhere’s my Medal? by Chaya Houpt
A guest post by my favorite JewishMOMmy blogger, All Victories’ Chaya Houpt Nobody’s handed me a parenting medal in a long time. Actually, no one has ever handed me a parenting medal at all. But back in the days when I used to traipse about with baby twins in tow, I got a lot of […]
Read MoreHyper-Tsnius, Revisited
“Of course, tsnius is the most important mitzvah of all for women.” Yuck. We had been having a really lovely conversation up until that point, and then the Chassidic matriarch started sharing her thoughts on my controversial article Hyper-Tsnius? and dropped that Middle-Ages bombshell on me. And for days, I was fuming about it. What […]
Read MoreToddlers Make Flour Blizzard in Living Room (3-Minute Funny Video)
This happened to me once, but it was with salt, not flour.
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