By April of 1945, Hitler was hiding deep in his subterranean bunker. In a delusional state, he was moving nonexistent armies over a map of Europe. The reality was that any remaining German forces...

In AmiLiving Issue #280, we published an article entitled “Shattered Hearts,” in which we first highlighted the phenomenon of children cutting themselves off from their parents. Since then, we have featured numerous letters and...

As a rule, I don’t bake. There are two reasons why: First, to me, baking means a delicate snow, folding, mixing, layering, pinching and/or brushing. Which all ends in a sink full of dirty measuring...

After years of being stuck in a decent-paying but dead-end job, slaving for ten hours a day to please an impossible boss and having to grovel for overtime, I was finally free. I had...

Something very unusual is happening off the coast of Israel. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of aircraft have been tracked flying in circles around a spot in the ocean between Israel and Cyprus. I know what...

Miriam Konstam, née Schaechter, originally of Boro Park, is an accountant for high-tech clients in Eretz Yisrael. The fascinating thing about this is not that she runs her own accounting firm—but how she runs...

My story began three years ago when I switched to Fidelis as my insurance carrier; it is a well-known insurance company popular in Rockland County and Orange County. Fidelis is known for its superb...

The place: Yishuv Nachaliel in Western Binyamin. The time: Late evening. The secretary general of Degel HaTorah, Rabbi Yitzchak Pindrus, looks out the window to where the gathering was supposed to have started 15...

I had mixed emotions when my tenant Raizy Berger called to tell me she’d signed a contract on a house. While I was thrilled for her that she had finally found something after months...

One of the people who has been quarantined on the cruise ship currently docked off the coast of Japan because of the coronavirus is 69-year-old Shimon Dahan, a resident of Mevaseret Tzion, Israel. “He’s...