Death Watch In North Korea: Are the leaks about Kim Jong-un’s...

GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA, has leaked word to the British media that Kim Jong-un died on Saturday, April 24. Fox News...

Mazel Tov! Birth in the midst of a pandemic

COVID-19 sort of slithered into our lives like a collection of hot rocks that no one paid attention to until a huge volcano erupted....

I Expected to Die from Coronavirus: Eli Beer’s Remarkable Story

When Eli Beer, founder and president of Israel’s United Hatzalah, went to the United States a few weeks before Pesach, he did not in...

A Second Reminder

September 2018 was a stressful time for Sam Schwartz. He had left his job at a marketing company to strike out on his own...

Are the Hospitals Neglecting Patients? As complaints about care for coronavirus...

The horror stories were slowly emerging, first a trickle, and then a rush of agony and pain. Families were accusing medical centers in New York...

A Lifesaver Loses His Life: Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Heber helped hundreds...

Thursday night. For one moment the entire country came together in tefillah for the man with the smile and the huge heart. Politicians, even...

Refugee, Rebbetzin & Royalty: The remarkable life of the Rebbetzin of...

The Wedding of the Year: How do you word a wedding invitation when neither the kallah nor the chasan have parents to do the inviting?...

Rejuvenate: Treat yourself by bringing the spa home

Pesach is behind us and spring is definitely in the air, the enticing scent of blossoms beckoning us outdoors. This time of year is...

Update From Hatlah of Boro Park: A conversation with coordinator Hertzka...

We’ve been hearing the situation has improved since Pesach. Are you seeing that on the front lines? The call volume for new cases has, baruch...

Bread Baking 101: My transformation from buying challah

It was about an hour before Shabbos one week when I heard my WhatsApp ping. I assumed that I was receiving my weekly nachas...

Prepared for a Pandemic: As the threat of Covid-19 grew, Hatzolah...

Back on Purim, the Jewish community of New York was almost entirely oblivious to the danger that was coming its way. But three people...

Tuesdays With Rifkie: Bringing Chicago’s frum senior women together

I always wanted my home to be a place of chesed,” explains Rifkie Muskat. Rifkie is a beloved fixture in Chicago’s frum community, where...

Vital Organs: The liver is a remarkable organ, and we cannot...

All of my husband’s symptoms were easily rationalized. David was getting tired, but he was after all getting older. He had constant stomachaches, but...

Prepared for a Pandemic: As the threat of Covid-19 grew, Hatzolah...

Back on Purim, the Jewish community of New York was almost entirely oblivious to the danger that was coming its way. But three people...

Mutating COVID-19: The dragon with three heads

First, may I offer my sincere condolences to the editors and staff at Ami Magazine and to the many families among our readers who...

On the Front Lines: An Israeli chareidi male nurse who survived...

Bentzi Porges, a Belzer chasid from Bnei Brak and the father of six children, works as a nurse at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv....

In Her Own Words: Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz talks about her father,...

I was privileged to meet the Novominsker Rebbe, zt”l, about 25 years ago as a result of an unusual set of circumstances. At that...

Reflecting on the Legacy of The Novominsker Rebbe, Rav Yaakov Perlow,...

We’ve lost so many distinguished members of the Jewish community, including rabbanim and gedolei Yisrael, over the last couple of weeks. How do you...

Through Simchah & Separation: Away from our family members, left to...

A wedding took place in the backyard of my friend’s neighbor. She watched from her window as the kallah walked around the chasan seven...

Sloppy Chametz: Back to crumbs

After Pesach, serving anything remotely related to Pesach food is a no-no, at least in my family! If I so much as mention chicken...