Mommy Peptalk: For Women who Hate Housework
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Read MoreWatch for a Good, Cleansing JewishMOM Weep
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter This video made me cry and cry and yearn for many, many more years of peanut butter sandwich preparing and messy diaper changing and bruised knee kissing at the bottom of the slide. Some parts of this video are specific […]
Read MoreNow and Later: Personal Reflections on the Chai Family Tragedy
“I hoped that we could annul the decree, but in the end we weren’t able to…” Rabbi Meirav of Yeshivat Shuvu Banim cried out as he wept at the funeral for his beloved son-in-law Rabbi Meir Chai two weeks ago. When I watched the eulogies for Rabbi Chai, the acclaimed educator and father of 7 […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: Overcoming Frustration 101
How to win the battle with frustration and disappointment in your everyday mothering life. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro6E-S-fiNs]
Read MoreFunny Baby Political Speech
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter This video made me laugh and laugh and laugh. And I think that we moms need to do more of that, so enjoy! If you know of another video that would make Jewish moms laugh, I would love to see […]
Read MoreMy Day with the Older Single
Right before Rosh Hashana, I joined an organized trip for women to visit gravesites of holy people in the North of Israel. I had an issue at the time that I was dealing with, a problem over which I had shed many tears and lost many days in a depressed, stuck funk. And I hoped […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday to Me!
Today is my 38th birthday! Which means that today I am completing two full 19-year cycles of the Hebrew calendar. What’s interesting is that my life, as well, has consisted of two totally separate 19 year periods. I spent the first 19 years of my life about as far as a Jew can get from […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: Remembering Rabbi Meir Chai HY"D
What Jewish moms can learn from Rabbi Meir Chai, a devoted father of 7 and an idealistic principal and teacher of young children who was murdered by terrorists this past week. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2qy6Cz6Fko]
Read MoreMikvah Praise on the Tyra Banks Show
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to receive our Free Weekly Newsletter This proud, beautiful Chassidic woman telling Tyra Banks and the American public the truth about Mikvah made my day. (Thanks to Jill from Manhattan for sending it my way. Since I posted this, a few people emailed to tell me […]
Read MoreThe Photographer and Me: Why I Love Being a Mom
This morning I left the house at 6:30 AM to get Hadas to school on time for her 6th grade overnight camping trip. How wonderful it was to be enjoying the sherbet pink/orange clouds of sunrise at that hour when I am usually bracing myself for the approaching banshee call of my alarm clock. And […]
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