People can be such idiots.

Can you tell that I’m in a majorly ticked-off mood? This morning I took Yonah to the grocery and as we were checking out, one of the clerks stood by watching me as I packed all of my stuff into bags. Yonah was kvetching and the woman behind me […]

Whew. That was a trip.

We intended to get going early yesterday morning but our plans were delayed when someone who will remain nameless (Yonah Yaakov Bochner) decided to hide the keys under the mini-fridge, where we discovered them after almost an hour of looking. During our hunt, Mommy got stressed out and burst […]

I am currently writing in the darkened room of our B&B in Tzfat. After one afternoon and a full day of exploring the winding alleys of this amazing city, Yonah and I opted to take a nap while Shuie visits the cemetery which houses the remains of many renowned rabbis. While it is considered […]

Just a quick one this morning because in a couple of hours Shuie, Yonah and I will be leaving for our first gin-u-wine Israeli tiyul (trip). We’re heading off to the mystical city of Tzfat, a small hilly enclave up North with a long tradition of Kabbalah study, Jewish art, and spiritual uplift for […]

Mazel Tov, Mazel Tov! I’m an auntie again!My beautiful sister-in-law Riki gave birth to a beautiful 7.5 lb baby girl Friday morning in L.A. Thank Gd mother and baby are both doing fine. From all the way across the ocean, I am sending love and blessings to this new little bearer of holy woman […]

Alright, I have been a very good girl and kept my lips zipped for quite a while now. Custom calls for keeping things mum until 12 weeks into the pregnancy.

That’s right. Yonah is going to be a big brother!We actually found out two days before we left for Israel, which made for an […]

With all modesty, I just need to say that Shuie and I hosted the most rocking kumzitz in the entire city last night. Some of our friends came, Shloimie and Nechemiah brought a bunch of friends from school, and between the crew that showed up, we had two guitarists, a fiddler, a saxophonist and […]

There’s a weensy little problem we’ve been having that I haven’t written about until now. I told myself it would go away if I didn’t give it too much attention, but unfortunately, like many issues, I could not make this one magically disappear just by ignoring it. It has become enough of a subplot […]

Back in the 60’s, a whole bunch of people (particularly young people involved with the counterculture hippie world) got turned on to Judaism by a Rabbi named Shlomo Carlebach. He was known as the “The Singing Rabbi” because he wrote thousands of Jewish songs and gave concerts for people all over the world. Reb Shlomo’s […]

After two days of entertaining, I am so exhausted I could fall asleep at my keyboard. Therefore, just a brief pit stop here before I turn in for the night. Our pizza party was a huge success; round the table today was a bunch of friends, old and new: “Uncle” (to Yonah) Seth Perkins, […]