It was the dog days of summer, when the days are long and the floors are splattered with popsicle juice even though the kids have already gone back to school. “Yocheved invited me to go...

Is the future of much of American Jewry to live in small villages sprinkled throughout Upstate New York? That vision is one that Chaim Lebowitz, the chairman of the planning board of the village...

French Jews will have to leave. That was the recent statement by Rabbi Berel Lazar, the chief rabbi of Russia, discussing what would happen if Marine Le Pen, of the right-wing National Front, wins the...

I’m a bus driver. For over 15 years, I’ve been driving a bus for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, otherwise known as the MTA, in New York City. If I had a quarter for every...

I received a nice email last week from one of Ami’s readers. He knows that I am a Democrat but that I always give credit to Trump where credit is due. I may not...

At the end of our conversation Kobi Bremer can no longer restrain himself and bursts out crying. “Yesterday my two daughters were interviewed,” he says, choking back tears as he tries to speak. They...

The first time I went to Israel, I was 16 years old, and the soldiers I saw at checkpoints and on buses looked like big, intimidating men with big, intimidating guns. But something weird...

When food giant Nestlé USA announced its plan to remove all artificial flavors and colors from its chocolate candies by the end of 2015, thousands of parents and health nuts across the country (well,...

What a month we’ve just entered! Iyar contains the same Hebrew letters as the word “ya’ir,” to light up. It’s finally spring on this side of the planet, a season that brings light and...

It was that time of year again. Twelfth graders around the world found themselves fluctuating between nerves and excitement, teachers tried to reassure classes to no avail, and parents were unable to sleep as...