The Most Awesome Movie EVER MADE about Israel with Tal Ben Shahar
Wow, this newly-released video entitled “Inside Israel” is something very, very special. Best-selling author and professor Tal Ben Shahar, who is famous for having taught the most popular course at Harvard on Positive Psychology, decided a few years back to leave behind his stellar career success in the US in order to move back to [...]
Read MoreHow My Parents Met in Dachau by Rabbi Yosef Wallis
Rabbi Yosef Wallis is the director of Arachim. He told Project Witness the following story about his father, Judah Wallis, who was born and raised in Pavenitz, Poland. Thanks so much to Rabbi Stephen Baars for sending me this powerful story. Rabbi Wallis told Project Witness: While he was in Dachau, a Jew who was [...]
Read MoreThe Case Against Kids
I’m a huge New Yorker fan (my parents bring me a big stack of back issues every time they visit, so I am always a few months or even years behind) but I don’t think anything I’ve ever read in the New Yorker has ever made me cry, let alone enabled me to enjoy one [...]
Read MoreRabbi Shteinman to Frum Schools: Stop being Snobs! (5-Minute Important Video)
In this important video below, Ponovezh Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Shteinman Shlit”a is presented with an urgent question that has implications for Jewish schools all over the world… A Beit Shemesh principal wants to reject 2 boys from his school because their mother is “more open” and “a different type” from the rest of the parents [...]
Read MoreFollow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story (3-Minute Official Trailer)
This looks like an amazing movie about the bravery and idealism of Entebbe Raid hero Yoni Netanyahu z”l…This quote from him is one to live by, “I must feel certain that not only at the moment of my death shall I be able to account for the time I have lived, I ought to be [...]
Read MoreTake off that SuperMOM Cape
“Eema, I’m afraid.” “There’s nothing to be afraid of, honey…Nothing at all…Eema will make everything all better.” In this week’s issue of Mishpacha Magazine, psychotherapist Rabbi David Hochberg wrote something that hit very close to home for me, and I’m sure for a lot of readers. He explained that as parents, seeing our kids struggle [...]
Read MoreIf I Should Have a Daughter by Sarah Kay (3-Minute Inspirational Video)
Poet and teacher Sarah Kay reflects on disappointment and tragedy and undying hope…This inspirational poem has been viewed over 1.7 million times, and I can understand why. I sobbed throughout both times I watched it… Enjoy, JewishMOM!
Read MoreJewish Mothers, What’s New? (3-Minute Funny Video)
Residents at a Jewish Nursing Home reflect on what it means to be a Jewish mother. I laughed, I cried, and generally adored this! Happy Mother’s Day, JewishMOMs! Hat tip to Life in Israel
Read MoreThe Disabled Veteran who Refused to Give Up (5-Minute Inspirational Video)
Arthur Boorman was a disabled veteran of the Gulf War for 15 years, and was told by his doctors that he would never be able to walk on his own, ever again. Watch his incredible story that has been viewed 1.3 million times since it was posted on YouTube 8 days ago…What’s your dream for [...]
Read MoreWhen Illness Makes a Spouse a Stranger (5-Minute Moving Video)
Michael French has frontotemporal dementia, for which there is no cure or treatment. As his condition deteriorated, his wife, Ruth, had to move him to a nursing home, where she spends most days. This story is so sad, but the truth is that I also found it extremely inspirational… to see this real-life heroine who, [...]
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