Not Your Average Sore Throat // The doctors kept telling me to drink tea,...
My story starts with an ordinary sore throat. Assuming it was strep, I went to the doctor to have my throat swabbed for a...
Child’s Play // There was something wrong with my daughter’s playmate. Should I say...
The loud thumping sounds coming from daughter’s bedroom on the second floor made me wonder what was going on. It was Sunday morning, and...
Bad Days Ahead
Antwerp, Belgium, November 2018
At 8:00 a.m. on a cold, dark and dreary morning my doorbell rang. I answered the door and was surprised to...
A Sad Turn of Events // For some reason, I was supposed to be...
I was busy preparing for Shabbos on an ordinary Friday afternoon when my friend called me up all excited. She and another friend were...
Grow Greens Grow //They grow indoors, and they grow super fast. Meet the nutritional...
Plants make way more practical pets than do animals. Which is why, when I saw a pineapple plant at the garden center last spring,...
Roots and Fruits // A tale of esrog jelly on Tu B’Shvat
Ring, ring.
We’re sitting on the beach, my new husband of several months and I. It’s a glorious day, the sky a brilliant Mediterranean blue,...
A Plea for a Liver // an article in Ami facilitates a successful...
It all began with last year’s Chanukah issue of Ami Magazine, published on December 13, 2017, which featured a powerful interview by gifted author...
Women to Remember: The Lights Burns On // A Tribute to Rebbetzin Yehudis Schlesinger,...
‘‘The Rebbetzin,” as Rebbetzin Yehudis Schlesinger was fondly entitled, was niftar last week; she was in her nineties. She was the daughter of Rav...
Adventure of a Lifetime // A Journey to Antarctica, the End of...
Reb Binyomin and Esther Feldman of London, whose names Ami readers may be familiar with from previous adventures, have done it again. A few...
Teach Thy Daughter // What I should have been taught about dating
I was one of those typical Bais Yaakov girls who just went with the flow. I enjoyed the trips, the late night fun and...
