A Calming Voice in Turbulent Times

A Visit with Rav Mordechai Shmuel Edelstein, Rav of the Naavat Yosef neighborhood in Bnei Brak This summer, I had the privilege of meeting with...

A Sea at the Table

Reflecting on the extraordinary meeting between the gedolim and President Trump in the Oval Office, and on how it came about It’s always challenging to...

Ezra Friedlander // The Friedlander Group

The business of lobbying I was born and raised in Boro Park. I started off in a yeshivah called Bais Yehuda, which doesn’t exist anymore....

Purim in Elul

A public servant publicly reveals her ignorance It was well-timed and probably planned, but it was shockingly ill-conceived, and that’s an understatement. “It” was a speech...

Pragmatic Kanna’us

A conversation with noted Bnei Brak askan Reb Motke Blau Rabbi Mordechai (“Motke”) Blau is one of the more recognizable public figures in Israel’s chareidi...

The Jewish Trail Kenya

The lions and wildebeest were spectacular, but the greatest surprises of my Kenyan journey were the Jewish ones Nairobi: A City of Humanity That’s what...

Chaim Rosenblatt // World of Blue

Chaim Rosenblatt: P3 Properties; World of Blue I was born in 1984 and grew up in Flatbush as the middle child of seven siblings. My...

Defining Evil Down

“Meaning” is a feature, not a bug “If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?” Abraham Lincoln is said...

From Israel to Saudi Arabia

Michael Ratney spent 34 years in the US Foreign Service, serving in some of the Middle East’s most consequential diplomatic posts. His career included...

The Medical Miracle of the Gaza War

It happened shortly after the fighting began and we entered northern Gaza. I was a battalion doctor with the Givati Reconnaissance Unit. We entered...

A Visit with Baghdad’s Last Jew

"If we leave, who will remain to safeguard the Jewish remnants of Iraq?” Benjamin Elias asks. “Our Jewish community here was once so magnificent....

Catching Up with Bitbean’s Ephraim Arnstein

Nearly a decade ago, we introduced Ami readers to Ephraim Arnstein, whose volunteer work at Oorah and passion for organization and problem-solving had grown...

The Board OF Peace’s First Collision

“I think 20-point plan, which was adopted by the UN Security Council, and now moving forward with the guidelines and the agreements that...

Whose Nation Is It Anyway

When US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was interviewed recently by PBS’s Margaret Hoover, he didn’t mention Vice President JD Vance’s name. But Mr....

Those Who Live in the Mountains

The summer has come. Tens of thousands of people have traded the concrete jungle for the camps and bungalow colonies of the Catskills, where...