Noteworthy // What a difference a day makes
Forty is only eleven in Scrabble!
I looked up from the birthday card, my nose twitching slightly. Mendel was standing in front of me with...
To Harmonize a Nation // The peaceful struggle of Etti Ankri
After Etti Ankri, the Israeli musical icon, posted a message to her fans on social media stating, “A fundamental law that is meant to...
Of Medicine, Miracles & Mindsets // A little boy with half a heart steals...
“Think good and it will be good.”
On Chanukah 2015, Elie Estrin, the Chabad shliach on the campus of the University of Washington, was preparing...
The First Missed Prayer // The morning that never was
Like most members of the Jewish community here in South Florida and throughout the world, my reaction to the tragedy in Surfside—once the initial...
My Childhood Trauma and my parent’s role // Should I go to ...
Dear AmiLiving Magazine:
I have a question that I think would be appropriate for your “Navigating Life” column that I would love for you to answer....
Was I poisoned?// A tragic outcome taught me about a hidden danger
My story happened 15 years ago. At the time, I was so young and innocent that I was barely affected; it’s only now that...
My Zeidy Was a Cantonist // Not even 33 years in the czar’s ...
I was born behind the Iron Curtain in the city of Dnipro (formerly Dnepropetrovsk or Yekaterinoslav), Ukraine. Aside from the basic knowledge that I...
But everyone has one! // a movement to keep kids away from...
Four years ago, two mothers saw what was happening in many of their contemporaries’ homes. In their community it was par for the course...
What was wrong with her neck? // doctors blamed anxiety for her hard...
For more than a year, Tara Zier waited in vain for the viselike tightness in her chest and the pain in her neck to...
Images of Hope Amid Darkness // The painting gave widower Chaim Rosenberg comfort, but...
It was a magnificent painting—ethereal, majestic and expressive all at once. It meant the world to a man who had endured so much but...
