Mommash: The Oy & Joy of Family with Lori Fein

Mommash: The Oy & Joy of Family with Lori Fein

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Mommash: The Oy & Joy of Family with Lori Fein episodes

  • Mommash bonus: Making Memories
    Another Passover greeting from Lori—back to full episodes next week after the holiday! In this episode, Lori reflects on how to make memories that matter, how to increase participation in the seder (hint: throw candy!), why silly or embarrassing moments make the best memories, and why time to connect with each other is the most memorable gift you can give your family.
    10 min
  • Mommash#7: Out of Control Joy with Mindy Schachter Lippe
    Is eight enough? Dr. Mindy Schachter Lippe shares stories and wisdom from parenting eight very individual kids -- including twins born just one day apart, musicians, rocket scientists, artists, and the ever-changing sibling relationships that ensue. Mindy reflects on her will to have more kids against doctors' advice after a traumatic first birth, the study she kept on her nightstand, and the friends and neighbors who questioned her choices. Join to hear about two very different sons with autism, twin daughters with identical interests (making the older one happy), sibling love and hate, the gift of a tribe, what therapy can deliver, appreciating each as an individual, and how she would do it all over again, challenges and all. Reach us at [email protected]!
    49 min
  • Mommash #6: Setting Priorities -- God, Family, & Skiing with Jessica Minkoff

    From her chill "California Modern" Jewish observance to her 5 am "me time" to her mantra of God, Family & Skiing, Jessica Minkoff knows her priorities and finds creative ways to keep her cool, let her SIX kids grow into their best selves, and cultivate a close clan that relishes time with one another. Plus, schlepping your crew to Israel and the AIPAC conference, finding your confidence, throwing a quesadilla at your mother-in-law (we've all been there, right?), taming your devil child, balancing individual and whole family needs, Coachella themed bar mitzvahs (not those gummies!), office hours in your bedroom, using the "who cares more" rule, meeting in grad school at Harvard, and why her 8-year old son wants to live in Israel for the candy, and the freedom.


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    51 min
  • Mommash #5: Making Home a Haven with Rachel Oppenheim
    Passionate, principled, daring, and hysterically funny mom Rachel Oppenheim shares with us stories of raising her NINE children into equally passionate individuals, while cultivating a team spirit that makes her family incredibly close -- so much so that they choose to live and work together in the family business, a burger bar named Bodega in Tel Aviv.  Rachel shared her secrets for rising above the chaos, learning to prioritize, meeting each kid’s needs, making home a haven for good times and bad, being judgy, why ADHD is a superpower, and helping kids find their passions while still pursuing your own.
    51 min
  • Mommash #4: Skin In the Game with Rabbi Susan Silverman
    In this episode, Lori and Haleh share laughs, woes and wisdom with Rabbi Susan Silverman, who offers insight based on her lifetime of activism and her unique family, with three biological daughters and two sons adopted from Ethiopia.  She opens up on why she felt compelled to adopt and found Second Nurture, her nonprofit promoting adoption and fostering.  Plus, punching your BFF in the face, having your big beautiful family moment diverted by pizza, turning hope into action, fighting in front of your kids, the sacred space of Shabbat as a reason kids come home for the weekend, when to tell kids to persevere and when to find something else, passion and purpose in the Israeli Army, parenting as a tikkun (repair) for your own childhood, finding your wise parenting counselor and hanging on tight, what's kosher about eating bacon, and how you know you're nailing it when your kids see Rosa Parks in the Book of Esther. 
    Learn more about Second Nurture at 2Nurture.org.
    Reactions? Questions? Comments? Want to come on the podcast? Reach us at [email protected] -- we will reply!
    48 min
  • Mommash #3: Let Them Fall Down with Natalie Sopinsky
    This week on Mommash, our guest Natalie Sopinsky -- lawyer, rescue worker, fundraiser and Zumba teacher -- discusses her unconventional parenting choices, why five kids feels like a small family, making the ordinary meaningful, raising strong kids (including her paratrooper son) by letting them fall, car rides as bonding experiences, declining Ritalin, and why you should pull your kids out of school more often. She shares her move from suburban Delaware to Susya in the Judean Hills, and her spiritual journey from minimal observance to religious Zionism.   Lori and Haleh reflect on trusting your gut, leaning into weaknesses as strengths, and why Lori's broken boiler shows we need parents as sherpas for life.
    57 min
  • Mommash #2: It's Twins...Again! With Kira Sirote
    This week Lori and Haleh talk to Kira Sirote, a mother of seven in Ra'anana, Israel, about attitudes toward kids in the Soviet Union, where she was born, US, where she moved as a young child and attended Harvard, and Israel, where she raised her family and resides today.  We also discuss kid-made legal systems, how seven kids is basically the same as three, sword play, waist deep mess, and the importance of giving kids their own toys and space. Kira reflects on the thrills of software development, the difference between classical & Biblical attitudes towards women and children, and why raising human beings is the ultimate creative act.
    57 min
  • Introducing Mommash! Preview Episode with Lori and Haleh

    Introducing Mommash, a new podcast about the Oy and the Joy of creating a family, with a special focus on larger Jewish families. In this preview episode, Lori and Haleh share a bit about their big broods, their plans for the show and the Passover food their Persian and Mexican families can't live without. Questions? Want to visit? Drop a note in our lunchbox at [email protected].

    12 min
  • Mommash #1: Developing Your Children's Passions with Chavie Levine Knapp
    In this first episode, Lori and Haleh talk to Chavie Levine Knapp, a mother of five from Teaneck, NJ, about how her kid's speech therapist helped uncover her child's passion, how to nurture family bonds while each kid pursues separate interests, and the eternal internal conflict between developing the talents of kids versus your own.  With standout kids on Broadway, TV, in competitive sports and at Penn, and her own career as a lawyer at top firms, Chavie reflects on the tradeoffs she made, and how she advises her own kids as they choose their life paths.
    49 min

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With five kids, Lori has spent years in the driver's seat of her mini-van and not only lived to tell the tales, but celebrate the journey. Joined by other parents of bigger broods, she shares the…