[COMMUNICATED CONTENT] The Ami Magazine Mega Pesach Issue, now on newsstands, contains a wide range of fascinating articles, including:
* Rav Chaim Kanievsky and others on the 60th anniversary of Kollel Chazon Ish
* In-depth, on-the-ground reporting and interviews on the real inside story of Lev Tahor
* Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein on chinuch challenges and making Torah come alive
* Howard Jonas of IDT on business, depression and maintaining a modest life
* Inside prisons with Jewish inmates and an Ami reporter
* A Pakistani man fights to be Jewish
* Plus a special dvar Torah from the Munkatcher Rebbe
* And much, much, much more!
The recent Knesset vote to draft yeshivah bachurim pained Jews around the world. A shining light amid the darkness was the bravery shown by one member of Knesset, Yoni Chetboun, who defied his party, Bayit Yehudi, and risked retaliation by casting the single vote against the bill, resulting in a final tally of 67-1. Chetboun was immediately censured by Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett, who removed him from the prestigious Foreign Affairs Committee and instituted other sanctions against him.
In an unprecedented move Ami Magazine is launching the first ever live Whisk food show, where attendees will have the opportunity to meet their favorite Whisk personalities and columnists and watch them in action! Whisk editor Victoria Dwek and other popular Whisk columnists, including Renne Muller and Miriam Pascal, will be performing live cooking demonstrations where they will deliver great cooking, food styling and plating tips, and tricks of the trade.
According to Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel, the leadership of Agudath Israel of America realized a few years ago that without an infusion of youthful personnel, the organization would face eventual decline, when the old guard failed to be replaced by the next generation.
Yeshivas Ponovezh is a famed bastion of Torah, and the nasi of Ponevezh, Rav Eliezer Kahaneman, is a grandson of the famed builder of Torah, the Ponovezher Rav, Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, zt”l. In an exclusive interview with Ami Magazine, Rav Kahaneman discusses in fascinating detail the development and growth of Ponovezh and the threats the Torah world is facing by the Israeli government. The threats to Torah are not new, Rav Kahaneman says, describing the previous attempts by the government to attack Torah learning. “What we need to do today is learn,” he says. “We have a promise that Torah will survive. But there’s no promise that it will be easy.”
The passing of Rav Yaakov Galinsky, zt”l, the famed maggid from Bnei Brak, has saddened Klal Yisrael, which derived important mussar lessons from his witty yet biting drashos and mashalim. In this week’s Ami Magazine, Rabbi Paysach Krohn discusses Rav Yaakov, who had been a guest for years in Rabbi Krohn’s parents’ household. In addition, he sheds light on the different methodologies in maggidus, the differences between the styles of Rav Sholom Schwadron and Rav Yaakov Galinsky, and his own influences in his maggidus.
The Jewish world has been dismayed by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate’s reversal regarding the status of Avi Weiss, the founder of Open Orthodoxy.
The tragedy of Menachem Stark’s brutal murder has left the broader Jewish community reeling, even more than a week after his body was found. No one, however, has been affected by his death more than his family members. In this week’s Ami Magazine, Menachem’s father, Rav Yisroel Stark, remembers his son’s life and chesed, and speaks about what Menachem’s loss has meant to his family. His brother Yitzy Stark discusses both how Menachem’s family is coping with the tragedy and inside details of the police investigation hunting down his killers.