The House of Yael

Torah, tea, and everything in between — the parsha, the home, the health, the news, and my own life running through all of it. Like gossip with your smartest friend, minus the part where she’s polite about it. Pull up a chair. The tea’s hot.

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The Egg Thing

So, I had an epiphany during Rosh Hashanah that really turned my focus onto my nutrition. You see, my stomach is not my friend, and hasn’t been for a very long time. I thought it was gluten — you can see that from other posts — so I went that route. And even eating gluten-free,…

Welcome to The House of Yael

Welcome to The House of Yael.

Told to you straight, like gossip with your smartest friend — the one who actually read the whole thing and has no interest in being polite about it.

Every room in this house is open. The parsha, brought down off the shelf. The kitchen, where Shabbat gets made (and occasionally burned). The workouts, the soul work, the money conversation nobody in our community wants to have, and a growing list of Jewish businesses actually worth your money. And once I’m unpacked, a morning news brief for the Jewish world, so you don’t need seventeen tabs open to know what happened overnight.

Running through all of it is my own life: a Jewish woman in her fifties trading Florida for a new house in Massachusetts and rebuilding pretty much everything, out loud.

I’m Yael. I’ve got strong opinions and the background to back them.

Pull up a chair. The tea’s hot, and we’ve got a lot to talk about.