To Baby or Not to Baby
Click to order: http://www.artscroll.com/Books/mtmh.html This post is part of a 7-week series of excerpts from the JewishMOM.com book of the year Mothers to Mothers: Women Across the Globe Share the Joys and Challenges of Jewish Motherhood by Julie Hauser (Artscroll), a collection of honest and colorful interviews with 30 Orthodox mothers sprinkled with insightful and […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: Being a Pesach Mensch
About cleaning for Chametz in our hearts this Passover [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKsZfnxNKqA]
Read MoreFree Inspiration by PHONE
I just discovered a tremendous free resource that I wanted to share with all you moms scouring your homes for Passover– “The Chazak Inspiration Line” which is a free service providing short inspirational classes/messages by phone. I have enjoyed the daily 4-minute inspirational “Upgrades for the Brain” from Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, the daily inspirational story, […]
Read MoreMy Top 10 of the Top 10 Tips for Easier Passover Cleaning
WANT TO BE A HAPPIER, MORE INSPIRED MOM? CLICK TO RECEIVE OUR FREE NEWSLETTER I just spent the whole morning reading through every single “Top 10 Ways to Make Pesach Cleaning Easier” list I could get my hands/browser on. I usually hate these lists, because they require a level of organization and advance planning that […]
Read MoreTrading Eyeglasses: How NOT to Cope with Life's Challenges
Click to order: http://www.artscroll.com/Books/mtmh.html This post is part of a 7-week series of excerpts from the JewishMOM.com book of the year Mothers to Mothers: Women Across the Globe Share the Joys and Challenges of Jewish Motherhood by Julie Hauser (Artscroll), a collection of honest and colorful interviews with 30 Orthodox mothers sprinkled with insightful and […]
Read MoreFrom Baby to Bride
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter In 1991, when my husband moved to Israel to attend yeshiva, the Samet family unofficially adopted him. During his two years at the yeshiva, Josh would spend several nights a week discussing theological issues with Rabbi Yisrael Samet, and almost […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk for Moms who Hate Passover Cleaning
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Read MoreMy Favorite Pesach Cleaning Checklist by Rabbi Scheinberg
Is Passover cleaning getting you stressed out, tired out, and flipping out with your kids and husband? Rabbi Scheinberg Shlit”a says: Don’t go overboard, Jewish mom! If you are starting to look like the woman in this video, I recommend that you print up Rabbi Scheinberg’s thorough but easy room-by-room instructions as a sanity-preserving guideline […]
Read MoreConquering Illness: A Jewish Mom's Secret Weapon
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter This is a letter I just received from Racheli Muchnik, a mother of 5 children and Chabad emissary in California, who was diagnosed several weeks ago with thyroid cancer. This inspiring letter is such convincing testimony of the power of […]
Read MoreMy Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter At our Purim meal yesterday, we received a surprise visit from friends who just returned from 6 months working in Jewish outreach in India. That meant that I spent most of the meal in the kitchen staring at their laptop, […]
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