How Many Jewish Mothers Does it Take...?
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
Enjoy this 1-minute video on the beauty and power of the Jewish mother...Happy Mother's Day!
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Scrubbing, Scouring, and Me
A Spiritual Perspective on Passover Cleaning
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
My dreams were so enormous, so vast and mankind-wide in scope that they just hibernated in my mind, stuck like a great blue whale unable to squeeze its way out of a drinking straw...
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Losing Alisha
Reflections on the Death of a Childhood Friend
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
What remains from one of the darkest periods of my life is something strange, something I never would have expected: a rare gift that you can only purchase at the cost of thousands and thousands of tears...
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Two Words
An Encounter with Chabad in Moscow
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
Judaism, in Russian eyes, is less like a religion, and more like a chronic, debilitating disease that they sincerely wish I could be cured of sometime very soon...
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Ahava Winston
Director and Founder of Nitza: The Jerusalem Postpartum Support Network
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
"I realized that if four women in my community gave birth that year, then among them there would likely be a woman and a family suffering in silence from this debilitating illness..."
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My Jewish Mother's Top Ten List
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
Why do we focus on the bad and not on the good aspects of motherhood? It is the same reason, I realized later, that we complain about a splinter in our pinky toe rather than give thanks for our whole healthy bodies...
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Goodbye, Yosef Chai
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
She said, "You are the only person I am telling. When you light candles this Friday night, know that it's all on you." I assumed she was joking, but she repeated this phrase, "Only you."
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Chana Deevon
The Midwife of Over 30,000 Babies
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
With 46 years of midwifery experience and over 30,000 babies under her belt, Mrs. Deevon is almost certainly the most prolific and senior midwife in all of Israel...
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Sarah Nachshon
A Modern-Day Matriarch
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
My parents taught me that if the Jews want to keep the Land of Israel, then we must fight for the Land of Israel...
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The Two Dollar Date
By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg
All that matters is that for two whole hours, it's just the two of you. Alone. Together.
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Chana (Jenny) Weisberg is the author of the new book One Baby Step at a Time: Seven Secrets of Jewish Motherhood (Urim), and Expecting Miracles: Finding Meaning and Spirituality in Pregnancy through Judaism (
