Jewish Mom
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Providing inspiration and encouragement for other Jewish moms through inspirational articles. Jewish Mom blog is dedicated to providing a much-deserved pat-on-the-back and much-needed inspirational pick-me-up to Jewish moms. Chana Jenny Weisberg, the creator of this blog, is a stay-home mother of 8 children living in Jerusalem with her husband Rabbi Joshua Weisberg.
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4M ago
Last Saturday night, before the funeral of my neighbor’s nephew, Seargent Hillel Eliyahu Ovadia HY”D, a request was sent out on behalf of the family to line our street holding flags as our neighbors walked from their home to the IDF bus that would take them to Mt. Herzl.So I took a big Israeli flag ..read more
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4M ago
Southern Lebanon Switches Flags After a year of bombarding northern Israel with rockets and UAVs, thanks to Hashem and our brave soldiers, southern Lebanon is now almost completely Hezbollah-free and under Israeli control b”H! As demonstrated by these IDF soldiers who found a ..read more
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4M ago
When I saw this I assumed Murray is Jewish. He’s not. Guess you don’t have to be Jewish to recognize the truth. Shabbat shalom and Chodesh tov! ..read more
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4M ago
My neighbor Shlomit’s husband is from Kiryat Shmoneh, so for a year now her father and mother-in-law have been evacuees. And it has not been easy. B”H, over the last month or so her in-laws have welcomed 4 new grandchildren into their family. At one of the many recent simchas, Shlomit’s sister-in-law pointed out, “What ..read more
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5M ago
Today I came across a quote from an unlikely source that brought me comfort in this week of funerals for so many young soldiers.Author Tom Stoppard puts this quotation into the mouth of a nineteenth-century Russian philosopher as he struggles to come to terms with the death of his son, who drowned in a shipwreck ..read more
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5M ago
My daughter spent Shabbat in a gorgeous community 50 kilometers from Lebanon. She was surprised to see that life continues there pretty much as usual. There is on average only one siren a week. And the residents have mostly stayed put. But there have been certain difficulties, including the fact that the kids can’t attend ..read more
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5M ago
This past Friday, the nephew of my dear next-door neighbor, Hillel Eliyahu Ovadia, was killed in the war.And so was the grandson of my daughter’s guidance counselor.And another neighbor’s husband (Guy ben Chana) seriously injured in Lebanon, is fighting for his life.I am exhausted. Partially because I was at the funeral of my neighbor’s 22-year-old ..read more
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5M ago
Meeting Iris Chaim, Mother of the Hostage Mistakenly Killed by IDF The highlight of my Succot, and my thoughts on this complicated Simchat Torah ..read more