Miracles Do Happen // It was one of the darkest times of my life
When the doctor uttered the infamous word “relapse,” I felt my world go black. We were back to where we had started. My five-year-old...
Send Me Something I Can Eat! // Isn’t mishloach manos supposed to consist...
This year I took a new approach as I headed to the store to prepare my mishloach manos. I didn’t ask myself what I...
Making People Laugh // Yitty Knobloch brings joy to women in ...
The first time I met Yitty, over a decade ago, I was convalescing at the Aim B’Yisroel kimpeturin home, a place where new mothers...
Purim Follies // What did I know about drinking?
It was Taanis Esther when my brand-new hubby of three months turned to me sweetly and asked, “You don’t mind if I drink a...
Warning: Not Everyone Is Who They Seem to Be // (Except Dina Neuman....
Dear AmiLiving Magazine,
The signs that something was wrong with Dina Neuman were there all along, but I dismissed them as “Americanisms.”
When the Neuman family...
Shushandukht’s Story // Is It Queen Esther’s Tomb or Is a Different Persian Jewish...
Have you ever heard the joke, “Guess who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?” The answer, of course, is Ulysses S. Grant.
According to some historians, however,...
Persecuted in Persia // A Jewish mother and daughter who escaped from Iran ten...
The last time 36-year-old Rebecca Sarno saw her father, it was through the slit of a borrowed burka he’d given her before she was...
Teacher’s Dilemma // My student had a secret but my lips were sealed
I was standing and waiting for the car service I’d called to bring me to my friend’s daughter’s wedding when my phone rang. I...
I Couldn’t Dance at My Own Wedding // It was my worst nightmare come...
I pulled my woolen scarf tighter around my neck as I stepped out of my car into the subzero temperature. Shoving my gloved hands...
Detox Nation // Is there really such a thing as “detoxing” your body of...
"Honestly, if I could go back in time, I would never have done it. A detox juice regimen is like any fad diet. You...
