Mommash: The Oy & Joy of Family with Lori Fein

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, havin...

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 scho...

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 imp...

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 Lunchbox@Mommash.com.

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 a...