Meet this Week’s JewishMOM: Michigan’s Ariella Rubin
Where did you grow up? Toronto, Canada. Where do you live? I live in a suburb outside of Detroit, Michigan called Southfield. How old are you? I am 30 years old and am finally feeling my age! How old are your kids? Yosef Betzalel is 5 yrs old, Bina Freyda is 3 yrs old, and […]
Read MoreMaybe Baby by Rivka Levy
My husband and I have been married for well over a decade, and we’ve been blessed with two wonderful children. Each child came at the end of a long, heartbreaking time period of ‘infertility’ – where doctors couldn’t find anything wrong, but I just wasn’t getting pregnant. Child number one arrived 4 years after we […]
Read MoreThis Week’s Mommy Peptalk: What We Moms can Do for Leiby z”l
How to prevent violent mothering of our children. If you cannot view YouTube videos, please click here
Read MoreNow it’s YOUR Turn: The New JewishMOM.com Community Bulletin Board
JewishMOMs, one of the things that makes me feel the most proud about JewishMOM.com is how, through your comments, you moms have helped to create such a warm, friendly, and supportive atmosphere on the site. JewishMOM.com reader Anna Ross suggested to me this week that JewishMOM.com needs a Community Bulletin Board on the site in […]
Read MoreHow to Tell if you are Pregnant with a Boy or a Girl…
This is extremely fascinating stuff. The Motherlode Blog featured these findings from the newly-released book Origins: How the 9 Months before Birth Shape the Rest of our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul. Listen to this: 1. Boy Pregnancy vs. Girl Pregnancy Rule #1 = Girl Pregnancies mean more nausea “Women who are pregnant with girls […]
Read MoreModest Swimsuit Designer Donates Kidney to Stranger
Over 82,000 people in the USA alone are currently waiting for a kidney transplants. And, on average, thousands of these people awaiting transplants will die every year waiting for a life-saving kidney. The following is the extraordinary story of Jerusalem JewishMOM Marci Rapp (founder of Marsea Modest Swimwear) who heard these statistics, and decided to […]
Read MoreTisha b’Av 2011: The Road Home (2-Minute Video)
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Read MoreDavid Beckham’s Baby Girl by Jeff Jacoby
Special thanks to Yehudit Levy for sending this my way… David and Victoria Beckham were overjoyed by the birth last week of their fourth child, a baby girl they named Harper. “We all feel so blessed and the boys love their baby sister so much!!!” the former Spice Girl exulted to her vast following on […]
Read MoreA Mother’s Thank You: One Shlucha’s Amazing Story
The following anonymous story reminded me of last week’s public statement by Leiby Kletzky’s parents urging us all to “perpetuate the feeling of collective responsibility and love expressed during the search for Leiby. An additional act of kindness toward your neighbor, or to those less fortunate than you, can go a long, long way toward […]
Read MoreNeedy Bride in Desperate Need of Assistance
My friend, a Nachlaot mother of 10 children bli ayin hara, will be marrying off her daughter this August, IY”H and she is desperately in need of financial assistance. Despite chronic pain resulting from ongoing health issues, this mother works in a nursery school to support her family since her husband lost his job editing […]
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