School is out, vacation is in. For most children this is reason to celebrate, but not all of them are celebrating for the same...

The last time Marc Haskell put on tefillin was at his bar mitzvah. That was over 40 years ago, in another lifetime. Last Monday evening,...

“We need you to bring something into Eretz Yisrael for us.” Aryeh was a student in Jerusalem who had gone to visit relatives in Antwerp,...

For as long as he could remember, Justyn Levin had been a tennis player—and a good one, too. He had been competing internationally since...

We were sitting in my mother-in-law’s spacious apartment on Terlistraat, in the heart of the Jewish kehillah of Antwerp, on a cozy Friday night....

It’s sort of what would happen in an evacuation before a hurricane,” Howard Duvall, a councilman in Columbia, South Carolina, told a reporter from...

The Torah world was shocked and saddened by the passing of Rav Aaron Mordechai Brafman, the menahel of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway/Derech Ayson, last...

The first time I experienced it, I wasn’t even a bona fide mother yet. I was talking to my own mother on my cell...

What do jalepeño peppers and herring have in common? Until last week, I couldn’t think of a thing. Herring is traditionally thought of as a...

When you think dairy and fried, you think mozzarella sticks. Want to skip the breading process? Eggroll wrappers give you all the crispiness without...

Most kids love pasta dishes, and most adults enjoy a fish main course, but I wanted to create a main dish that’s both adult...

The “war room” in the basement of the Pentagon is a misnomer. It is actually a series of electronically isolated rooms that can communicate...

I was doing research online for a writing assignment, dissecting the pros and cons of various diaper brands, when I noticed a blog entitled...

An English novelist once said that artists use lies to tell the truth. My fascinating guest, Ami columnist Rabbi Yoel Gold, uses truth to...

I grew up in Flatbush, in a heavily Syrian community. As a chasidishe family, we were an anomaly among our Sephardic neighbors. Yet despite...

It is estimated that over 100,000 Jews a year visit the gravesite of the revered Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, known by the name...

It is beginning to look as if everyone was a little bit wrong about Trump’s Russian collusion and everyone was a little bit right....

The fact that Raghubir Goyal has been covering the White House for close to 40 years isn’t all that unusual. It’s not his longevity...

“Menachem, how many people are fully supported so they can sit and learn like you are? You have to be crazy to give it...

acking up almost everything but the kitchen sink, and spending eight or nine weeks living in a cramped, non-air-conditioned bungalow with the children while...