Along the Croatian Coast // A visit to Jewish locales on the...

‘‘It is good your luggage have wheels,” my taxi driver remarked as he loaded my suitcase into the trunk of his cab. “I can only drive to gate. After that you walk.” I understood...

Bring Our Son Home //Simha and Leah Goldin, the parents of Hadar Goldin, will...

It is late afternoon in the quaint town of Kfar Saba. The parents of Hadar Goldin, Professor Simha and Dr. Leah Goldin, are sitting at their dining room table. The walls of their tastefully...

Trump and the Orthodox Jewish Community – An independent poll by Ami magazine

In the first known effort of its kind, Ami Magazine commissioned a poll of Orthodox Jews in the tristate area about their views on President Trump’s performance. The pollsters surveyed 263 people over two...

Metaphor for a Culture // The dance of the matador

“It’s not a sport, señora.” Esperanza folded her arms and snorted. How foolish the Americans were to think that everything is a game! The Spaniards are a cultured and civilized people, uninterested in amusing themselves...

The Trump Economy // As the numbers boom, how much credit can the president...

‘‘Once again, we are the economic envy of the entire world.” Those were President Donald Trump’s words on Friday, as he delivered remarks on the South Lawn of the White House, prepared in response to...

Washington Insider

Putting Himself on the Rhetorical Firing Line When 16-year-old Kyle Kashuv survived the Parkland shooting, he never imagined he’d have to survive daily attacks in the media and by his peers, all while inspiring the...

Can you believe it? // Bizarre beliefs that linger from childhood

One blazingly hot Chol Hamoed day, when I was around nine years old, my parents beat the heat by taking me and my siblings to an enchanted place called FAO Schwarz. We looked, wide-eyed...

Never Give Up Hope

When Yaakov and Aliza found out that they were expecting twins, they were overwhelmed and excited. But at the end of the first trimester, their joy turned into worry. Aliza had taken some standard...

Seeing the Whole Chessboard // The next move may be the riskiest. Whose...

The game of chess was invented in Persia, but now it may be the Israelis who are the real grandmasters when it comes to the game of international intrigue. When the Israelis look at...

Jerusalem’s Yemenite Village // The return to a historic Jewish neighborhood

One floor after another, one staircase followed by another staircase, we climb higher and higher in Beit Yehonatan, the house that we learned had been officially named for the American spy Jonathan Pollard. Its...