A good friend of mine has been working on her parenting recently through classes and workshops. She’s experiencing tremendous growth, and I’m lucky enough to be on the receiving end of the wisdom she’s cultivated. Recently, we were talking about spending spurts of quality time with each child, and she mentioned that it’s better to
Before we redesigned Family Table, I had a few rotating pieces that I wanted to include on this page each week. One piece was what I called “Overrated/Underrated,” where I’d spotlight a trend and evaluate if it had lasting power. There are plenty of food trends that are overrated, but I was more curious about
It hit me when Esther sent me a picture of her table with all the to-do lists and checklists laid out one Erev Shabbos that our annual awaited mishloach manos supplement requires a similar level of detail to what’s involved in making a simchah. There’s endless errands and hours and hours of conversations figuring it
The term snowflake gets thrown around quite a bit, but I’m going to reference it in its most creative form: everyone has a unique makeup of talents and features that make them irreplaceable. Even people who seem to lead similar lives with similar interests obviously have differing qualities that set them apart. Those little nuances
On one of my first visits to Eretz Yisrael, my family went on a guided tour of Yerushalayim. At one point, close to the end of a scorching day, we sat in front of a fig tree for a short rest while the tour guide spoke. There was a steal-the-show aroma coming from that tree,
While my husband and I were living in Israel, we were scheduled to visit New York and decided to take a five-day detour through Switzerland. It was summertime and breathtaking. We went through several different cities, picking up kosher food where we could. In the grocery before Shabbos, we chose a wide selection of food,
