Happy Birthday to Me
My unusual approach to celebrating my Hebrew and secular birthdays. Shabbat shalom!
Read MoreHow to Comfort Others by Not Comforting Them by Ruchi Koval
When people I care about complain to me, I become uncomfortable because I feel their pain. Since I love them, I want to move them and myself away from that pain by trying to swat it away like an annoying mosquito. And since I’m a fixer, it seems natural to move into fixer mode. By […]
Read MoreWhy I Was so Excited to Lay Tefillin for the Very 1st Time by Joseph Cosenza Petrone
[Since last week, my husband’s been guiding the Israel trip of a California synagogue. The trip has been plagued by COVID infections and extreme weather. But despite all the disruptions, thanks to the amazing participants, the trip’s been incredible. But the absolute highlight for my husband was having the honor of teaching a participant to […]
Read MoreWhen a Child Wants a Banana by Nadav Naveh and Sons
Nadav Naveh’s newest comedy clip on parenting. Awesome!
Read MoreWhy the Phone Rang Every Week During the Class of Rav Drukman zt”l
This photo was taken at my chuppah almost 27 years ago. The older rabbi reading our ketuba was my husband’s rosh yeshiva, Rav Chaim Drukman, zt”l, who passed away yesterday at the age of 90. 30 years ago, Rav Drukman converted my husband at his yeshiva, Yeshivat Ohr Etsion, and Josh ended up staying for […]
Read MoreThe Cold Soldier’s Angel by Tamar
Yesterday at 7:30 AM on a very cold morning, a few other soldiers and I were on a bus to Jerusalem. I was freezing and didn’t have a coat and the kind bus driver noticed immediately. After about 10 minutes he called me to the front of the bus over the loud speaker and handed […]
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Miracles, Big and Small by Rabbi Yechezkel Elias
A few years ago, my father Shlita, the Rosh Kollel of the Montreal Community Kollel, was involved in a car accident where his vehicle flipped over, crashed into a light pole, and erupted in flames. In a stroke of Divine serendipity, two Muslims who were passing at that very moment stopped their car and pulled […]
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