John A. Catsimatidis (born September 7, 1948), the billionaire owner of Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company, and New York-based radio station 770 WABC, has formed an exploratory committee for a...

Meir Greenfeld was a few months past his bar mitzvah, in 2003, when he was diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a rare form of blood cancer. When Meir heard his diagnosis, the first thing he...

Yes, it is worth going that extra mile for the nutmeg seeds and vanilla bean! Quality spices are key to enrich the flavors of your cider. I bought these at the shuk, but you...

As the coronavirus begins its third wave in Israel and the new British mutation starts to spread, Israeli health authorities have initiated a broad vaccination campaign. The first phase of vaccinations will go to...

Three months ago, my sister Rivka, quarantined in a nursing home in Baltimore, died from COVID-19. It was a pitiful way to die, comatose and alone, but then again, we don’t know what goes...

Dear Editor: I want to start by telling you that I discovered Ami Magazine during the COVID-19 lockdown. I have always loved reading and used to borrow ten books a month from the library. Then the...

When I got a nasty scratch from a nail in the door, I didn’t think much about it. It was long and deep and very painful, but being an 18-year-old kindergarten teacher, I just...

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. So concludes Robert Frost’s legendary poem “Stopping by Woods on a...

On Chanukah the European Court of Justice sent European Jews a grim reminder that the right to religious freedom is perpetually in peril. The court upheld Belgium’s ban on religious slaughter, including shechitah. In 2017,...

There’s probably no great rush among Iranian science majors to choose careers in the country’s nuclear research program. For good reason. The positions—and their holders—have often proven short-lived. Over the past decade, at least five...