The Great Mom Journey (plus JewishMOM.com Book of the Month- Let's Face It!)
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to join the JewishMom.com Weekly Mailing List! Last week, my neighbor brought me a photograph. I looked at it, and identified it right away as a photo of myself with my 2-year-old son Yoel. But then I noticed the photo’s date- 9/3/99 in fluorescent orange. So […]
Read MoreSee my Favorite Musician, Efrat Razel, in 1st Online Concert!
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to join the JewishMom.com Weekly Mailing List! The most recent Efrat Razel concert this past July really felt like being at the Neila service on Yom Kippur- it was that uplifting! And I was SO incredibly disappointed that I had NO WAY of sharing this evening […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: The Secret to Becoming Unstuck
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to join the JewishMom.com Weekly Mailing List! How this Elul each of us can become the mom of her dreams. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZiqjgB3gHM] <em>
Read MoreBeware the Intruders!
I just read a really horrifying story in Slovie Jungreis Wolff’s fantastic new book Raising a Child with Soul. A happy wife and mother of one happy husband and two happy children hosts a couple for several weeks who, it turns out, are on the brink of divorce. The getting-divorced mother is really down on […]
Read MoreSomething you Definitely Never Knew About Me…
Want to be a happier, more inspired mom? Click to join the JewishMom.com Weekly Mailing List! At our Shabbat table, we always ask guests to introduce themselves with something that no one else at the table knows about them. SO, what is something that you definitely don’t know about ME? Are you sitting down (I […]
Read MoreMommy Peptalk: Surviving the Frying Pan
Just got back from an amazing visit with my parents in Baltimore, and got into the new and admirable American tradition of recycling- recycling emptied raspberry yogurt containers, recycling finished copies of the New York Times, recycling kosher pickle jars…recycling Mommy Peptalks! Here’s an oldie-but-goodie from last summer vacation…Hope to have a new one for […]
Read MoreMy Favorite New Song: "Aba!"
I love this new song by Evyatar Banai! The stanza highlighted below was what inspired the entry below “Mommy Hunchback.” May all of us mommy hunchbacks merit to transform our weaknesses into great strengths! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl80BYqDAns&feature=related] Aba by Evyatar Banai (from the newly released Layla K’Yom Yair) אבא אביתר בנאי מילים ולחן: אביתר בנאי אבא, אני […]
Read MoreMommy Hunchbacks
I have been thinking a lot recently about the “pekkele,” the congenital package, the inborn weakness, that each and every one of us lugs around with us for life, like a hunchback. One mom is so disorganized that her whole family lives in perpetual crisis mode- mismatched socks and misplaced vaccination records and missed school […]
Read More2 Short JewishMOM videos for Tisha B’Av
Two oldies but goodies, two inspirational 2-minute JewishMOM videos I made in honor of last Tisha B’av about Jerusalem activist Rebbetzin Bracha Slae. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb08yuk7ZT0&feature=player_embedded]
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