This Week’s Mommy Peptalk: How to Free Yourself from Guilt
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Read MoreThe Song I Sang in Tsfat
We spent this past Shabbat in a suburb of Heaven. Or at least that’s how Tsfat feels to me. On our past annual visits to Tsfat with my husband’s students, being in such an intensely spiritual place—the birds circling overhead like angels, the ancient Kabbalistic whispers, the otherworldly inhabitants – has consistently made me feel […]
Read More“This Cannot Go On” by Chaya Houpt
Here’s another guest post by my neighbor and favorite fellow mommy blogger, Chaya Houpt, of the truly wonderful All Victories blog. Around the time Y.B. and A.N. turned two, they started to Talk. Not just words, but sentences, and then plans and games and conspiracies. Where they had previously been mostly indifferent to each other’s […]
Read MoreNetanyahu: Roosevelt was a Breslover
Special thanks to Yedidya Meir of Radio Kol Chai for featuring this story, and for sending me the link: The Israeli News of the 2nd Channel featured a news report about Prime Minister Netanyahu and his wife Sara’s sporty stroll yesterday between the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials in Washington. When they arrived at the Roosevelt […]
Read MoreMy Dream Come True: Some Incredible JewishMOM.com Stats
4 years ago I was working as a freelance writer for Aish.com and Chabad.org and a bunch of other Jewish sites and publications. But that all changed when my learning partner and I started learning Rabbi Noach Weinberg’s 48 Ways, and we were presented with Rabbi Weinberg’s life-altering question, “What is your goal in life?” […]
Read MoreMichelle Obama’s #1 Shalom Bayit Tip
I still haven’t forgiven the President of the United States for his Obaminable speech on Israel a few days ago. But in the spirit of good sportsmanship, I have decided to take this opportunity to officially commend First Lady Michelle Obama for some fantastic marital advice she gave during an interview with O magazine (and […]
Read MoreLaughing Quadruplets (1-Minute Video)
This made me smile. Very, very cute. Infant quadruplets laughing in synch. (IMMODESTY WARNING)
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: What Have You Been Doing the WHOLE DAY?!
There were some technical difficulties with the peptalk I recorded for this week, so I am posting an oldie and goodie instead. This peptalk was exactly what I needed to hear this week…
Read MoreAn Upsherin in Byron, Georgia
Last week I asked for you JewishMOMs of 3-year-old boys to send me your Lag Ba’omer upsherin (first haircut) photos. And the day after Lag Ba’omer, I received an Email from Nedavia Frankewich packed with photos of her adorable son Efraim at his upsherin. What was interesting about Efraim’s upsherin was that it took place […]
Read More400 Kids on ONE SLIDE!
I spend most afternoons at Nachlaot’s playground with the red slide. This playground is definitely one of my favorite places in the whole world. I love meeting my neighborhood friends there, and feeding my kids rice cakes and apple slices kids there, and enjoying the Jerusalem late afternoon air there. But there are 2 problems […]
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