Life after Birth
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS My daughter brought home this beautiful, anonymous story from her youth group. I thought it was quite brilliant and unforgettable, so I’ve translated it into English for you… Enjoy! Inside their mother’s womb, two fetuses, one religious and one an Atheist, are having a conversation: […]
Read MoreThis Week's Mommy Peptalk: The Grandfather and the Soldier
Stories of longing and reconnection from my childhood Conservative synagogue and the battlefront of the 6 Day War. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otGnl-A82gU]
Read More3 Ways to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS Last week, a Nachlaot resident was arrested for molesting a large number of neighborhood boys over the course of several years. Like his young victims, this man was an Orthodox Jew. In the aftermath of this local nightmare, I decided to speak with our dear […]
Read MoreKeren Ohr's Dream
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS Over the past week, thousands of women around Israel have read and watched and and forwarded on Keren Ohr Denan’s incredible dream which she shared at last week’s class of Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi. Once you read Keren Ohr’s intensely moving story, you will understand what […]
Read MorePostpartum Pajamas? What do YOU Think?
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS This past Sunday, I brought by a meal for a friend who had a baby a week and a half ago. I had just seen her the day before at the Kiddush for her newborn daughter looking pretty much like her regular, pre-pregnancy self in […]
Read MoreRivka bat Yael Razel Update: A Walking Miracle–Literally
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS 6 months ago, Israel let out a collective gasp when Rivka bat Yael Razel, the daughter of singer Yonatan Razel and his wife Yael, fell from a ladder on Israel Independence Day and arrived comatose at Hadassah Hospital. That nightmarish night, Rivki’s doctors warned her […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: I Feel like a Failure
Why effort is more important than success. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA09kOGIKIE]
Read MoreMaayana Leibowitz's Musical Debut
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS 12-year-old Maayana Leibowitz wrote this song “And Miriam Called Out” and performed it at her bat mitzvah celebration last week. I heard this song and thought it was so beautiful that I just HAD to share it with all you moms…She sings it with my […]
Read MoreIn Defense of Rabbanit Yemima
CLICK TO RECEIVE THE #1 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR JEWISH MOMS Litvish and Chassidish and National Relig-ish. Breslov-niks and Kook-niks and Aish-niks and Chabadniks. So what am I? While I draw inspiration from all of the above, more than anything else I am a dyed-in-the-wool and darned proud Yemima-nik. And I’m not alone. Rabbanit Yemima Mizrachi […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: When Things Need to Change
What to do when you are feeling burnt out [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38akG00ETSI]
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