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	comment » Daughters and Daughters-in-Law Also in Need» Select an Archives Section: JP Archives: Rebbetzin's Viewpoint/Rebbetzin Jungreis 413 Archived Articles Found in Rebbetzin's Viewpoint/Rebbetzin Jungreis Next 20 Articles > 1) Posted Nov 09 2011 I'm Afraid By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Yes, I'm afraid. When I say these words, most people do not understand, and they attribute my fears to the fact that I am a survivor and live in the shadow of my Holocaust experiences. Still others attribute my fears to "overreaction" and assure themselves there is nothing to worry about. Fear, they rationalize, is a Jewish neurosis, identified with past generations, when our people lived in the darkness of the ghetto. Read Article 2) Posted Nov 02 2011 Yom Tov Family Crisis By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Last week I interrupted a series of columns on the subject of "holiday mayhem," concerning the problems faced by many familieswhose adult children come home for Yom Tov with their families. Read Article 3) Posted Oct 26 2011 A Simple Teaching, Difficult To Understand By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis I am interrupting my series on "Yom Tov Mayhem," focusing on adult children who come home for the holidays with their families and expect their mothers to be cook, housekeeper and baby-sitter all rolled into one. How to deal with this problem without damaging relationships will, please G-d, be the topic of my next column. Read Article 4) Posted Oct 18 2011 Yom Tov Family Crisis By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Last week I published a letter from a distraught mother whose married children came home for Yom Tov and imagined they were at a resort with complete maid, baby-sitting and dining service. Read Article 5) Posted Oct 16 2011 Family Mayhem By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Dear Rebbetzin Jungreis: I have been a reader for many years. I realize that lately you have been focusing on very serious subjects that pertain to the very life of our people, so I do not know whether you will publish my letter, which deals with family problems. I hope, however, that you will do so, not because it will change my family situation - it is too late for that - on the chance that others might learn from it. Read Article 6) Posted Oct 05 2011 The Fire That Will Not Be Extinguished By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis In the early years of Hineni, I spoke to a standing room only audience at Binyanei Haouma in Yerushalayim. As I looked out from the stage, I noticed there was a large contingent of frum people present, and on the spot I created a story to share with them. Read Article 7) Posted Sep 27 2011 A Timeless Message By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Yom Kippur approaches and memories crowd my mind. I see my saintly father, HaRav HaGaon Avraham HaLevi Jungreis, zt"l. I see his holy countenance; I see his beautiful face, upon which the Shechinah rested. I hear his voice - a voice that penetrated the heart. Those who heard it never forgot it. Read Article 8) Posted Sep 21 2011 Just Two Words By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Many moons ago, when I established Hineni, kiruv - outreach - was a foreign concept. The Orthodox world looked askance at the idea. "You're wasting your time," I was told. "Maybe they will become observant for a day, or even a few weeks, but then they will go back to their former life style." Read Article 9) Posted Sep 14 2011 The Shofar Speaks To Our Soul By reb In my last column I spoke of the urgency of change. Events the likes of which we have never before seen are befalling us - and yet we remain asleep. Rosh Hashanah is around the corner demanding we shake off our dust and don our majestic, priestly garments, but we are convinced we are incapable of doing so. The shofar comes to remind us that yes, we can - that we have this ability engraved in our Jewish DNA and the shofar has the power to bring it forth. Read Article 10) Posted Sep 07 2011 The Power Of The Shofar By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis In my last column I wrote of that which we must do in response to the wake-up calls that have been knocking incessantly at our doors these past few months. Read Article 11) Posted Aug 31 2011 Slumbering Through The Wake-Up Calls By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis That which transpired during these past few weeks should have shaken us all. To be sure, traumatic events have been pounding away at American Jewry for years now - as a matter of fact, from 9/11 on. But few of us have taken them to heart. Something was happening and is happening in the world, but we choose not to see or hear. It's easier to attribute everything to natural causes because then we can go on our merry way and indulge in business as usual. Read Article 12) Posted Aug 24 2011 But I'm A 'Pretty Good' Person By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Last week I concluded my column with the story of a Jew who wanted to make changes in the world and inspire people to do teshuvah - to return to their roots, their Divine heritage. Read Article 13) Posted Aug 17 2011 No Coincidences By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Last week I wrote that we are now at a very critical juncture in our long history. We have entered the period of ikvesie d'Mashiach - a time of travail when the footsteps of the Messiah can be discerned. We are receiving wake-up call after wake-up call, and they come in many shapes and forms. Hashemis sounding the alarm, but we remain deaf to its implications. Read Article 14) Posted Aug 10 2011 Again? Yes, Again By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis "Not again!" you may say. To which I respond, "Yes, again!" I say this as I write once again about the most heinous tragedy that could have befallen us, so even though it may not be popular - even though your reaction may be, "We heard it already" - I am nevertheless writing because I fear we have returned to business as usual. Read Article 15) Posted Aug 03 2011 Jews Weren't The Only Ones Who Heard Leiby's Cry By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis In my last column I wrote about Leiby Kletzky and what I experienced when I made a shiva call to his family. My plan was to continue writing about this tragedy and focus on what we must learn from it and do. In the interim, I received a letter from a non-Jewish reader and felt I should share it. Read Article 16) Posted Jul 27 2011 Incomprehensible And Unspeakable By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Our Jewish world has been shocked, shaken to the core. We are all speechless in face of the tragic, monstrous, inhuman act perpetrated against a sweet, precious, innocent, holy little boy lovingly called Leiby. Read Article 17) Posted Jul 20 2011 Words From The Heart By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Last week I wrote that every Jew if approached with the right attitude - i.e. with love and sincerity rather than judgmentally and condescendingly - can be touched and inspired. This is not magic, but rather an eternal truth based on the Divine revelation at Sinai, when for all eternity the voice of G-d penetrated every Jewish neshamah. Read Article 18) Posted Jul 13 2011 Words From The Heart By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis have just returned from Israel where, Baruch Hashem, we held some amazing programs. My granddaughter, Shaindy Wolff Eisenberg, spearheads our activities in Jerusalem. In the space of a year she has attracted a following of a spectacular group of young people, and I was greatly inspired seeing and speaking with them. Read Article 19) Posted Jul 07 2011 An Eternal Legacy By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Dear Rebbetzin: I am a 62-year-old Conservative Jew, recently retired from teaching and planning to relocate to Florida. My three children are all married and living in different parts of the world: a daughter in Jerusalem, one son in Toronto, another son in California. Those living in Jerusalem and Toronto have become very Orthodox, while the son living in California is totally uninterested in religion. As a matter of fact, he is married to a non-Jewish woman. As you can see, there is no happy medium in my family, but I cannot interfere in the lifestyle choices of my children. Read Article 20) Posted Jun 29 2011 Caring For Bubbie - A Privilege By Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Dear Rebbetzin Jungreis: My mother lives with me and needs a great deal of attention, as do my four children. It seems as if everyone is pulling at me at once, and I don't know in which direction to turn first. All this stress has definitely affected my mental and physical health. I suffer from backaches and stomach trouble and lack the patience necessary to be a good wife and mother. Read Article 413 Archived Articles Found in Rebbetzin's Viewpoint/Rebbetzin Jungreis Next 20 Articles >
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