How I Really Feel about Birth Control
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter Last week I received a really disturbing email. A woman who was the victim of childhood abuse at the hands of an overwhelmed mother of many, many children wrote, “I WISH and WISHED as I was growing up, that someone […]
Read MoreBat Mitzvah Memories
My Israeli tutor liked listening to the Grateful Dead while we studied on the huge Indian pillows, since it put her in a “mood for prayer, you know?” As she smoked and drank cup after cup of Turkish coffee (no sugar please) I read the Shma and Ashrei over and over, week after week after […]
Read MoreThe Invisible Woman
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter This woman isn’t Jewish, but I personally nominate her for honorary JewishMOM status. This funny/moving/inspirational video is the mommy peptalk of the year and required viewing for every Jewish mom… [Thanks to my buddy Gittl of Nachlaot for sending me […]
Read MoreCNN Raves about AMAZING Israelis in Haiti!
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter CNN is usually a source of tsures for us Jews…but this week they are the source of some well-deserved yiddishe nachas. Don’t miss this amazing 2 minute CNN story on the unparalleled Israeli hospital in Haiti… (Thanks to Moji of […]
Read MoreBirth at Israel Army Hospital in Haiti- Amazing!
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter Did you know that Israel was the FIRST country in the world to set up a field hospital in Haiti to treat the injured following the earthquake? G-d bless Israel and the Israeli Army! Please forward this link, let’s tell […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: The Haiti Disaster and the Jewish Mom
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Read MoreThe Pursuit of Happyness
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter Jewish mom! Don’t let the doomsayers get you down! And now this week’s Mommy Peptalk from Will Smith… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQlzz6jGCfI]
Read MoreThe Bad Advice
7 years ago, I was a mess. I had three children under the age of 4, and felt depressed, anxious, and completely overwhelmed. Around that time, I started seeing a naturopath who helped me a great deal. By then, she was already in her 70s, a former schoolteacher from England who was married to a […]
Read MoreThe Jewish Mother's Power Tool
(reprinted from Binah Magazine) The Jewish Mother’s Power Tool by Chana Jenny Weisberg When we moved into our new home five years ago, we received a unique mirror as a gift from an old and wise friend. What is special about this mirror is that there is a Birkat Habayit, a Blessing for the Home, […]
Read MoreA Very Special Boy and his Very Incredible Dad
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter As much as we love to laugh, we moms love a good, tugged on the heartstrings JewishMOM cry. This is an incredibly moving and uplifting video, about a very special disabled young man and his incredible dad. Watch it to […]
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