It all began with last year’s Chanukah issue of Ami Magazine, published on December 13, 2017, which featured a powerful interview by gifted author Yitta Halberstam-Mandelbaum about Chaya Lipschutz, a kidney and liver “‘shadchan.” Chaya,...

In December, McKenzie Adams took her own life. She was only nine years old. According to national media reports, Adams was one of several American children under the age of 12 to commit suicide after...

‘‘The Rebbetzin,” as Rebbetzin Yehudis Schlesinger was fondly entitled, was niftar last week; she was in her nineties. She was the daughter of Rav Moshe Blau, zt”l, the renowned manhig of the yishuv hayashan,...

If you veer slightly off the noisy asphalt highway surging with traffic between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, you will soon find yourself in another world, one that is alive with green blooms, burbling streams,...

Reb Binyomin and Esther Feldman of London, whose names Ami readers may be familiar with from previous adventures, have done it again. A few weeks ago, Mrs. Feldman let me in on a secret:...

I was one of those typical Bais Yaakov girls who just went with the flow. I enjoyed the trips, the late night fun and the Shabbosim. I was one of the gang, but for...

In an unprecedented step for Belzer chasidus, Rav Shulem and Rav Avrum Shmiel Tzvi Rokeach, grandsons of the Rebbe, have been traveling to Belzer communities around the world to give chizzuk and to prepare...

One of the tzaddikei emes I had the zechiyah to meet in my capacity as editor of Ami Magazine was Rav Elazar Mordechai Koenig, zt”l, the leader of the Breslov community in Tzefas. I...

Many Jewish organizations and news media outlets have been focused on the activities of anti-Semitic white supremacists, and some pundits even have accused President Donald Trump of encouraging such bigots. But in recent months,...

Yerushalayim, here we come! Making aliyah was the most exhilarating of times and the most frightening of times, with a sense of both leaving home and coming home. My right pocket bulged with feelings...