Remembering Rabbanit Rachel Fisher zt"l
My lungs fell towards my stomach when I noticed the death notice this past Monday. “Oh nooooo…..” I groaned under my breath. “What happened, Eema?” Moriah asked me. I had to wait a moment. My throat was too swollen with shock to speak. “You remember the old grandmother I used to speak with when she […]
Read MoreIs Birth Control Kosher for Orthodox Jews?
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS I thought this Jew in the City episode was incredibly sweet. Enjoy! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJRe0Xo0Elg]
Read MoreThe Big C
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS My friend Hagit is a 39-year-old mother of 5 little kids. When I think of her, I think of 3 things: Hagit is Emuna (faith) Hagit is Chesed (kindness) Hagit is a walking smile that makes the world smile back. In Nachlaot, there are a […]
Read MoreThe #1 Baby Name for 2010
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS OK, Chana, this is your America 2010 Awareness Quiz: 1. Name an American movie that came out this year: Ummmm…. 2. Name a current American prime-time television show: Ummmm… 3. Name a song recorded in 2010 by an American musician: Ummmm… You get the idea. […]
Read MoreJoin the JewishMOM.com Slogan Competition
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS Here’s some famous website slogans… Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia eBay, the World’s Online Market Place YouTube: Broadcast Yourself. Do you… Yahoo!? And now JewishMOM.com is eagerly on the hunt for its very own new and shiny slogan… Email me your brilliant ideas for a slogan […]
Read MoreThe Best Advice I Ever Got
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS A year ago this month, two women who read this blog told me that I absolutely had to try out the Personal Development Chabura of Rabbi Aryeh Nivin. Looking back, I understand that that was quite possibly the best advice I have ever received. No […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: The Vizhnitz Wedding Song
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Read MoreSinging in the Rain
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS As I walked my umbrella-toting kidlings bundled up in their fluffiest coats and greenest rain ponchos to nursery school this morning, this is the song I was humming. If I lived in Melbourne or LA or London, I bet I would have been grumbling in […]
Read MoreThe Chanukah Wave
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS “How’s Chanukah going?” my friend asked me in the market yesterday. In Israel, children are on vacation from school for most or all of Chanukah. And that means that I have spent most of Chanukah feeling like I did as a child when I was […]
Read MoreA Big Surprise on the Way!
In a few weeks, you and all of my dear blog readers are going to be receiving a big surprise. I can’t give you any details about what’s about to happen because it’s, well, a surprise! But I am hard at work on this project, and you are definitely going to totally love it…
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