Knowing the Goal
Passover Lessons
By Elana Mizrahi
What is the difference between Passover cleaning and Spring cleaning? Both involve a lot of soap, water, and rags. Both require a lot of hard work, energy, and time. So what is the difference? I could ask you the same question about a lot of things. What ...
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The Sincerity of Simplicity
By Elana Mizrahi
She smiled brightly at me. Her smile was contagious. She couldn't contain her excitement anymore and I put down my book to listen...
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Pulling Away to Draw Close
By Elana Mizrahi
I wonder if she is comforted knowing that as our relationship evolves Mommy is still here for her. Even though it appears that I’m pushing her away...
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Celebrating Being Different
A Chanukah Message
By Elana Mizrahi
Should I give them an answer that they want to hear, one that won't separate me from the group and will increase my chances of winning, or do I tell them what is really in my heart?
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Seeing the Blessing
An Insight into Parshat Lech Lecha
By Elana Mizrahi
I just received our monthly credit card bill. On it was a month's worth of food shopping, as well as my utilities and phone bills. There were no luxuries; everything was a bare necessity. I gasped when I saw the total. How are we going to make it?
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A Day of Joy
Yom Kippur and True Forgiveness
By Elana Mizrahi
Every minute my child is in "time-out" I look at the clock, waiting for the time to be up. To me, two minutes feels like four and five feels like ten...
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The Juggler
Appreciating the Challenges of Motherhood
By Elana Mizrahi
the broken vase on the floor is just that, a broken vase—and the spilled milk is easily cleaned up. Women who watch me ask me how I have such patience. The patience comes with perspective...
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Survivorship
By Elana Mizrahi
I knew very little about their past. I was told bits and pieces of their stories. I knew that my little Bubbie had escaped from death's door and had been a Partisan fighter in the forest...
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The Grass Is Greener
Appreciating What We Have
By Elana Mizrahi
Now breads and rolls aside- this request and the arguments that I hear or see daily about always wanting what the other has, well, they depress me...
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Why? A Shavuot Insight
By Elana Mizrahi
After trial and error I have now discovered that when facing the sticky situations that I find myself in- instead of asking why to a question that has no answer, the best thing to do is just clean up the mess, and move on...
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Originally from Northern California and a Stanford University graduate, Elana Mizrahi now lives in Jerusalem with her husband and children. She also teaches brides and is a writer.
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