How To Clean Up After Your Guests
Once you greet your guest, feel comfortable setting some basic rules. This is your house, after all.
How To Make A Difference
In Israel, there is a growing pushback against publications that erase women.
Staying Warm With Fun Activities!
There is a strong sense of comfort that comes with zipping up a warm sweatshirt, and pulling on thick wool socks.
What Do We Do Now?
Maybe we don't have to lose that growth and unity that we have achieved, especially with the situation in Eretz Yisrael right now.
Spring 2014: Just Around the Corner!
It's hard to believe that it is the beginning of October and the Yomim Tovim are already behind us. But having had everything fall out early this year provides a golden opportunity to enjoy the gorgeous fall weather and all that the crisp air has to offer.
How To Make Sheva Brochot
It’s easy to get excited and start hunting for the perfect shade of champagne tablecloth to match the exact color of the bridesmaid dresses, or to insist that each guest must have a wine glass, water glass and soda glass.
How To Make Purim Sameach!
There’s nothing like a holiday where one is required to be happy to bring out the grouch in all of us. But we should all be excited to greet Purim. Not only because of the beautiful miracle that occurred, the lessons of emunah and the role of the Jewish woman that Megillas Esther teaches us, but also because it’s the only twenty-four hour holiday that we celebrate here in Chutz L’Aretz, and it has merely four mitzvot! How simple is that?
Fashion First Aid
The list of potential sartorial mishaps goes on and on, but thankfully, there are plenty of fixes to save the day as well as steps you can take to prevent problems from ever occurring in the first place.
Busting Burglaries
What do your house keys and your cell phone have in common?
A Taste of Shabbat
The traditional recipes she used throughout our lives brought comfort and love to both our family and strangers alike.
Time To Outsource!
The toys, bookcases and drawers in china closet are simple jobs and can be delegated to children. Have them divide the items into keep, throw out and donate.
In The Dark And Loving It
What is it about the lengthy darkness that calls to me?
In The Bag
As my husband reminded me as I meticulously folded bags into neat little packages over the last three months to hoard them for future use, the fact that bags will no longer be free in stores doesn’t mean that they won’t be available.
How To Get Your Children To Build Your Sukkah
Pick a day to start. We would love to begin on Motzaei Yom Kippur, but if your children are fasting, they might not be up to it, unless they drank coffee and are now all hyped up.
How To Make Pesach Cleaning Stress Free!
I think if we can be honest with ourselves, most women will admit to enjoying Pesach cleaning - and perhaps to even looking forward to it all year long.
How To Make An Upsherin
This past Lag B'Omer, we were blessed to make our first upsherin, where we celebrate our son’s first hair cut. It’s a wonderful milestone that mimics the three years that we refrain from plucking a tree’s first fruits and symbolizes the entry of the child into the world of Torah learning. It’s a clear sign to everyone; this boy is no longer a baby.
Leaving Kids Home Alone
I am a huge proponent of spending quality time with your spouse, as the benefits of strengthening your relationship are huge and long-lasting.
Just Say No
We are living in a society where the bar gets raised higher and higher every year, and where today's splurge becomes tomorrow's necessity.
Phone Fun
I have had more than a few people tell me that they use their phones to do just about everything except making calls.
New Cookbooks Spark Kitchen Creativity
Given the subject matter, it seems appropriate for this cookbook to open with a chapter on food safety since giving your family food poisoning by feeding them spoiled ingredients is definitely something to be avoided.
How To Have Guests And Still Enjoy Your Meal
I feel that I am a good authority to write on this topic, because although I love having guests, it completely stresses me out. Something happens to me when we have guests over; I feel this urge to have the table perfect, the food innovative, delicious and abundant and my children buffed and shiny. When things don’t turn out well, it’s not exactly pretty.
Putting Your Gas Guzzler On A Diet
For those of us who have no choice but to drive, we need to find ways to make that overpriced tank of gas last as long as possible.
Cooking Pesach When You Don’t Want To
My husband enjoys cooking when he is home and my kids have been cooking and baking since the age of four.
How To Make A Bridal Shower
Of course, before you send out the invites, the bride must decide if she would like a registry or will be accepting whatever creative gifts the guests bring.
Successful Kids Party – Without Going Broke
Children do love a good birthday party, so it’s time to find a healthy balance between what the school and my budget allows.
Fighting The Battle Of The Bulge: The Yom Tov Edition
I can't guarantee that I will get through the yomim tovim at exactly the same weight I started at, but I am certainly going to try.
Those Long Shabbos Afternoons
It’s interesting how small things change our perspective. Shabbos is always 25 hours, but with a longer afternoon, we call it a long Shabbos.
The French Connection: Unique Headscarves From Overseas
Judith Levy is a gorgeous French-born woman with a flair for fashion and the written word (she’s an editor for French editions of Artscroll). At the start of her second marriage she found herself in a shaitel vs. tichel predicament very similar to mine.
Off You Go!
Having already sent three girls to seminary in the Holy Land, you would think I would be an expert on travel gear and accessories...
How To Keep Your Fridge Clean
For extra credit, you can bring out your vacuum and clean the coils at the bottom of the fridge. Having these coils dust free keeps your fridge running more efficiently and saves on electricity.