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“Are you buying those potatoes for tomorrow’s lunch or for tomorrow’s dinner?” my friend Leah innocently inquired last night at the vegetable stand in the market.

I hesitated for a nanosecond, and then chose to swallow my pride and confess: “I’m actually buying these for the soup that we will be eating for the whole week…”

Leah’s eyes narrowed, her head turned…

An Israeli research team from the prestigious Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center discovered that among menopausal women the most important factor contributing to quality of life is number of children. In other words, researchers were surprised to find that bigger families mean happier and more satisfied moms.

The research team interviewed 151 women between the ages of 45-55 and at various stages of menopause. Researchers asked the women about the severity of…

Jewish moms, SURPRISE!

After several months of late nights and hard work, I am SO THRILLED to be launching the new JewishMOM.com!

In honor of this site’s 10 year anniversary, a few months ago I decided that the time had finally come to create a new-and-improved JewishMOM.com. I pray that this new site, which unites the website JewishMOM.com and the JewishMOM.com blog, will enable JewishMOM.com to inspire even more Jewish…

Over the past few days I have been feeling breathless. I think this borderline hyperventilation might be due to my perpetual motion machine life, and the fact that it’s finally starting to get to me.

And then I read the results of a recent survey of 3000 working British moms, which breaks down the average day of a working mom as follows:



(reprinted from the Motherlode Blog):

Get up 6:42am

Get ready (shower,…