Israelis are a very creative lot. When a snow storm hits, they don’t just go and pull out their waterproof LLBean pants and their LandsEnd snow shoes. They don’t have those wardrobe pieces because they don’t assume they will ever need them. After all, we do live on the edge of a desert in the… Read More Snow Adventures: Israeli Style
There’s nothing as great as a teaching moment…except for a teaching moment that turns even more exceptional in the course of the day. Yesterday morning, as we were getting ready for school, Eliav came into the kitchen and said, “Look Mommy. I don’t have any hands.” Yes, virtually every child in the history of the… Read More Grabbing the Teaching Moments of Our Lives
People have been telling me that I should really get away. That we need some time to regroup…to relax…and to decompress after a very stressful month. And we couldn’t have agreed more. Little did I know, however, as we set out on our Chanukah vacation on Tuesday JUST how “away” this place would be or… Read More Get On the Bus And Set Yourself Free…
Prior to Stella’s funeral we spoke to a psychologist and good friend about our boys. We wanted to know who should come to the funeral, who should stay home and how to help our boys through this terrible time. We decided that our two oldest boys should come with us to the ceremony which would… Read More In Good Company
“Do not press me to leave you, to turn back from following you, for where you go, I will go and where you sleep, I will sleep; your people is my people and your Gd is my Gd. Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried.” The Book of Ruth For… Read More Saying Goodbye to My Rockstar
Here is one of my favorite pictures. It’s from Matan’s bar mitzvah in April. Stella has moved on to the stars. Funeral today at 11 in Neve Daniel. May she be appreciated in Shemayim as much as she was by all of us. Love you my dear friend, Stella
Many people in our lives are undoubtedly having trouble focusing on just about anything other than the Frankls. Since Yarden’s post last night, people have been turning to us left and right to ask what they can do. Realizing before they ask that there is probably nothing to do, per se, they still want to… Read More What You CAN Do for the Frankls
מה שאתם יכולים לעשות למען משפחת פרנקל אנשים רבים בסביבתנו מתקשים להסיר ממחשבותיהם את המצב של משפחת פרנקל. מאז שירדן פרסם אמש את ההודעה שלו, אנשים רבים פונים אלינו ושואלים כיצד הם יכולים לעזור. זאת, למרות שהם מבינים לבדם שאין כל כך מה לעשות, אבל הם שואלים כי הם בכל זאת רוצים להושיט יד תומכת,… Read More מה שאתם יכולים לעשות למען משפחת פרנקל
The other day, I was standing outside of my child’s school waiting for pick up. As usual, I started a conversation with one of the other mothers. We were discussing how amazing a friend of ours was and about the many acts of chesed (kindness and giving) she was always doing. “Why can’t we all… Read More Lessons Learned at Kindergarten Pick-Up
Look how young and cute we were! 20 years ago… 20 years ago today Josh and I started dating, while participating in a one year post-college social service program in Israel called Otzma. We actually first started dating at Kibbutz Gezer, and last night Josh very romantically swept me off my feet and brought me… Read More From Kibbutz Gezer to Neve Daniel
