Hello my wonderful readers! Welcome back to ‘regular life’ if you can call it that! Don’t you all feel like the time period from Purim through Pesach is on a level of hecticness all its own… I often feel like I could use another two days between Monday and Tuesday just to catch my tail!…
TOYS TOYS TOYS – WHAT do you do with all of them??? Have you ever had this happen to you?… I have small children in the house/ I am a grandmother who has small children constantly visiting, playing with the toys, messing them up (thank G-d) and also getting little crumbs all over them…and now…
I’ve got some nice new news to share– I will be in the United States from the 8th of Feb until the 19th. (So if you are not in the US, sorry, but I won’t be visiting you on this trip!) So first of all, I won’t be able to answer emails during that time.…
To all my dear readers, It’s taken me so long to write about this because I found it so hard to address. The other week, after all that hype with the supposed ‘snow’ in Jerusalem – and I wrote you a bit about it then –it was programmed to go out from the server and…
I’m sure you’ve all heard on the news that there is an expected major snowstorm supposedly happening here in Jerusalem. Well, here I am writing to you FROM JERUSALEM and as of right now (I’m writing this on Thursday, 8 Jan at 11:30 a.m. my time) it’s very foggy, cold and wet outside but so…
Chanukah, Potato Latkes and More! Hello everyone – Just to wish a very Happy Chanukah to you! I saw a very beautiful short piece today about some of the laws of Chanukah. It said that the holiness of Torah comes through the lights of Shabbos and the lights of the Chanukah menorah. Spending time being…
I don’t know how many of you actually look at the bottom of these email forms, but if you have, you’d have noticed that it says I am located in Har Nof, Jerusalem. After this week of bloodshed, tragedy and tears, Har Nof is no longer a small, unnoticeable, off to the side Jerusalem suburb.…
Bar Mitzvah Musings I’d like to thank the many of you that wrote me in the past few weeks, or that wrote to wish us mazel tov on our son’s bar mitzvah. Yes, B”H, Hashem helped us and we had an evening reception that was a bar catered by just our family. We all pitched…
Crushed Peanut Cookies These are NOT a peanut-butter cookie! Makes about 50-60 cookies of the size shown in the photo. Ingredients 4 eggs 1 cup oil 1¼ cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 3 teaspoons baking powder small pinch of salt 5½ cups flour (you may need a bit more if the dough is too sticky)…