It all began with an article I read in Yated Ne’eman in 2002 that quoted a study by Dr. Dorit Isaac, saying that frum women were dying from breast cancer at double the rate...

What percentage of American Jewry identifies as Orthodox? Chances are, especially if you’ve ever seen any of the polls that have been conducted over the past few decades, that your answer will be 10%....

Whenever I check my bank balance, I hold my breath, sure that this month it didn’t arrive. But month after month there it is—$10,000 even, waiting to be spent on milk and cereal, meat...

My phone rang, its shrill tone reverberating through the quiet house. I opened one sleepy eye. It was 1:10 a.m. A phone call at this hour could mean only onr thing. “Mazel tov, Reb Tzvi!”...

Now that the ravaging effects of out-of-control wedding expenses—a topic featured in Ami Magazine over the past few weeks—has been brought to the fore, a torrent of interest has been expressed by scores of...

“Rrrrriiiiinnnnnggg!” The shrill sound of the telephone broke the peaceful silence. My heart did a little flip-flop as I stared blankly at the bedside table, where the illuminated clock told me it was 3:59...

In the fall of 1999, Doug Lindsay was a student preparing for his senior year in college with a bright future as a biochemistry professor. Then life as he knew it fell apart. After only one...

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. —The Hippocratic Oath A rabbi told me that a patient’s family had gotten in...

A few days before this interview took place, its two participants—interviewer and interviewee—agreed that the better part of wisdom would probably be to cancel. For in response to an email from me asking if...

It’s the month of Kislev, the month of light and joy, when the radiance of Torah illuminates our homes and our lives. Tamar Sultanov, 27, is a young wife and mother who lives in Kfar...