Change of Rules for the Shavuos Nachas Contest
I have decided that the contest’s word limit is way too low and am raising the word limit from 50 to 250. I plan to be posting the semifinalists on Monday for all you JewishMOMs to vote on and choose the winner. Shabbat shalom, and sorry for all the confusion:) chana jenny
Read MoreThe Song that Helped me Flow
For all of last week, I was totally stressed out. Not because anything huge was going wrong. But rather because all sorts of small things were going wrong, and the snowball effect of all those minor stressors was a giant-esque, everything’s-falling-apart bellow of AAAARGH! First, my website started crumbling apart- minor technical issue by minor […]
Read MorePM Netanyahu’s Speech to US Congress
The Congress gave PM Netanyahu 41 standing ovations during his speech last week. Watching this makes me feel so proud to be an Israeli AND and American. Go, Bibi, go! (here are two 12-minute excerpts from the speech)
Read MoreJackie Mason responds to Obama’s Speech
This made me laugh… Click here if you cannot view YouTube videos hat tip to Life in Israel
Read MoreMy Life as a Stay at Home, Working Mom by Deborah Cenker
I recently started noticing that “my way of life” is never written about. I read all sorts of articles about working moms verses stay at home moms. Stay at home moms verses working moms. But what about stay at home working moms? It is a breed of mom that I have only come across in […]
Read MoreMy Israeli Dream Come True
My favorite holiday of the whole year isn’t Passover or Rosh Hashana or Succot or Chanukah or any of the other biggies. My favorite holiday is Jerusalem Day.* And this is why… I first celebrated Jerusalem Day during my first visit to Israel in 1992. I found my way to downtown Jerusalem from the Baalot […]
Read MoreSegula Alert! Recite the Shla”H’s Prayer for Children this Thursday
Tonight (Wednesday, May 24) and tomorrow (Thursday, May 25) is the day before Rosh Chodesh Sivan, declared by the Shla”h HaKadosh as one of the most auspicious days of the year to pray for our children’s physical and spiritual well-being and lifelong success. Jewish mom, don’t miss this tremendous annual opportunity! Make sure to recite […]
Read MoreThe Shavuos Nachas Contest!
In honor of the festival of Shavuot, when we and our children celebrate the giving of the Torah, JewishMOM.com is having the world’s first Nachas Contest. JewishMOM, what was YOUR biggest Nachas moment EVER with YOUR kids? Send me your Nachas story (250 words or less) along with a photo of that nachas-causing child or […]
Read MoreAyala Nivin’s FULL House: Reflections on Mothering a Large Family
Ayala Nivin is the mother of 14 children (KA”H!) whom I recently wrote about for the article “Cleaning for Passover Under Fire” about getting ready for Pesach in Ashdod. But I only actually met Ayala in person at her son’s bar mitzvah this month (Ayala’s husband is my teacher, Rabbi Aryeh Nivin). What really blew […]
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