N’shei Chabad Newsletter Staff
“One of the most hurtful things is to feel that you are being dropped, or treated differently, by your peers,” writes Menucha Kaplan, age 19, about surviving her parents’ divorce in the upcoming Pesach edition of N’shei Chabad Newsletter.
Along with sharing her journey of triumph through her parents’ breakup, Kaplan offers advice on how to be a good friend to someone undergoing such a public challenge. At one point her mother wasn’t comfortable going to the grocery store, since many well-meaning acquaintances felt “justified to put in their two cents” about her recent decision to divorce.
Kaplan credits her mother for making “our home a very happy place with lots of love and laughter” despite the divorce. With refreshing insight and honesty, Kaplan notes, “Although it is definitely more challenging, a single parent is able to raise happy, mentschlich, normal children.”
But what’s the cover about?
The cover shows a baby being held by loving hands, and asks what the baby is thinking. We think this well-loved baby is probably thinking, “The world is a safe and pleasant place, after all!”
Mrs. Risha Majesky develops the “mothers make the difference” theme by describing some of the insights she has gained in her more than a decade as principal of Bnos Menachem.
She urges today’s young women to make their mothering a priority, even while doing many other important, exciting, worthwhile and lucrative things in their lives as well.
“I have seen girls who were born “unlucky” – not especially gifted, good- looking, or academically inclined, coming from homes with extreme poverty, illness or other challenges, yet they succeed in school and are happy, well-adjusted, successful young women who are happy with their Yiddishkeit,” she writes.
“This can be often be attributed to their good home life and to the healthy relationships they have at home,” she writes in her article about Mothering in the Pesach issue of N’shei Chabad Newsletter.
Another interesting article in the new issue is about a person named Uncle Charlie who never had a Bar Mitzvah after his parents collected the checks that came in the mail and then cancelled the party. That was until he visited 770…
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Awesome!
it is magnificent YES!
is that your photo on the cover? i think i recognize it from your facebook feed. wow, magnificent!
I was left alone as a daddy to raise nine wonderful children,at the time the oldest was was 19. I was there nonstop every morning, all day and every night,fortunately working from home. I believe that mommies naturally are closer to their children and therefore daddies must work on themselves harder to make it a priority which not only includes quality time but quantity of time with their children. Not being a woman I did not get the usual support that single mothers get.Hopefully there are other daddies out there who can step up to the plate and show their… Read more »
cant wait to read all these amazing articles!!
Ya share koach! Hashem should bless you with only good!!
am i ever glad… can’t wait to read on all of these great topics!
Unbelievable principal! Thank you for all that you do to help our precious daughters!!!
For always putting a quality issue out there!
I agree with you #5. Let’s live in reality. Most mothers need to work. We still love and care for our kids. BH mine are coming out just fine!
the article does not address working moms vs. stay-at-homes
it’s not about that at all
you can be a part-time working mother adn totally tuned in and bonded with your children.
and you can be a so-called stay-at-home who leaves her kids for long trips, etc, and sends them out before they’re ready, and is just not tuned in\.
again – nothing to do with working or not working.
nothing to do with judging.
speaking of judging… why don’t you wait til you read it before you judge it to be judgmental?
yes mothers need their babies and babies need their mothers. However, the reality of life is that a lot of mothers NEED to work. Tuition, food, household expenses are all increasing and often requires a mother to help supplement the income.Please don’t bash working mothers!! I am one and believe me it is not easy!!!! I work to pay the bills and it bothers me tremendously when mothers sit home and then complain they have no money.
each to their own- don’t judge others.
what a nicely designed cover!
So glad this article was written.
Women often forget that they are indispensable in filling their babies’ needs.
Whole cover looks intriguing; can’t wait to read this issue!
Finally someone brave enough to get up and defend our babies. YES they have feelings. YES they want their mommies. NO it is not the same to them to be left with a babysitter hours a day. Even if the babysitter can change and feed them. They want their mommy– they just can’t say it.
i give risha majesky and the n’shei chabad newsletter MUCH CREDIT for speaking out about something not very politically correct – that mothers are important and really have to be there for their kids. g-d bless you.