Meet this Week’s JewishMOM: Maaleh Michmas’ Rachael Masri
Where did you grow up? Newton, MA (suburb of Boston) Where do you live? In the settlement Maale Michmas, about 20 minutes north of Jerusalem. How old are you? 27 How old are your kids? 2 1/2, 1 1/2, and one on the way B’ezrat Hashem, this Succot If you are a WM, what do […]
Read MoreThis Week’s Mommy Peptalk: How to Be Happy (9-Minute Video)
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Read MoreWhat will the Jewish Future Look Like? (2-Minute Video)
This video made me cry so hard. Since I see these Reform Jewish kids talking about their dreams for the Jewish people, and I see myself thirty years ago. Like them, I didn’t really know so much about keeping kosher. Like them, I didn’t really know so much about keeping Shabbat. Like them, I didn’t […]
Read More“How to Talk to Little Girls” by Lisa Bloom
Thanks to Nava Levine-Koren for sending me this important article about how damaging and even dangerous it is when adults comment on young girls physical appearances. Reading this article made me wince since I do this ALL THE TIME. Every time I meet a little girl, pretty much, I gush over her hair or her […]
Read MoreThe Wedding Night Nightmare by Anonymous
THIS ARTICLE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR MOTHERS AND MARRIED WOMEN. The following story is a very graphic description of one frum woman’s struggle with and victory over PVV, a medical condition that makes marital intimacy extremely painful. I was very hesitant to post such an extremely graphic account of what took place behind one woman’s […]
Read More7-Year-Old Singing at Chassidic Wedding
7-Year-old Naftuli Shmiel Landau Sings and Plays on Keyboard at a Wedding. This really made me smile:) Click here if you cannot view YouTube videos
Read MorePresident Obama Comforts Crying Baby
I’m not a big fan of Obama as a president, but as a babysitter he looks quite gifted…(Immodesty warning for sensitive viewers) Barack Obama is officially the baby whisperer | The Ticket – Yahoo! News – Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod.
Read MoreMoms on the Moon
Everybody knows that Neil Armstrong was the first human being in history to walk on the moon. And nobody’s ever even heard of Michael Collins. Though the truth is that, if it wasn’t for Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong wouldn’t even have a Wikipedia entry. Michael Collins was the fellow astronaut who accompanied Armstrong on that […]
Read MoreThis Week’s Peptalk: Take a Break, Jewish Mom!
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Read MoreIs Birth Control Kosher for Orthodox Jews? (2-minute video)
A great video from A Jew in the City. Thanks for Rachel Reinfeld Wachtfogel for sending it my way:)
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