Author: David Rutman

After teaching first grade for 43 years at the Hebrew Academy in Long Beach before retiring, and raising a family of seven children and many grandchildren, Rabbi Moishe Y. Engel did something new this year: he will be publishing his first book, “Shabbos in a Gas Station, and Other Personal Inspirational Stories.” Not only that […]

What’s the mitzvah of Passover? One commandment is to not eat leavened products. Another is to not see leavened products. But the steps of the Seder allow us to fulfill another mitzvah: to tell the story of the Jewish people. The Haggadah, the book that we use during the Seder, informs of us what to […]

International Women’s Day, which was celebrated around the world this week, is not exactly the Palestinian Authority’s favorite holiday, given its longstanding policy of treating women as third-class citizens. Even those self-described human rights groups that are strongly biased in favor of the Palestinian Arab cause acknowledge the PA’s systemic mistreatment of women. Amnesty International’s […]

Two Israelis were brutally attacked Sunday afternoon outside the Augustine restaurant in San Jose. Daniel and Lior, who asked to be identified by their first names only, spoke with the Journal about the assault, which left them with injuries to their heads, backs and stomachs. The two said they had been speaking Hebrew while waiting […]

In late 1940, Nazi occupiers confined over 400,000 Warsaw Jews in a sealed ghetto, creating horrendous overcrowding, starvation, and disease. Tens of thousands died inside even before the mass deportations began. In the summer of 1942, the Nazis began the final “liquidation” of the ghetto under the guise of deportation to “labor camps.” Over 260,000 […]

An Islamist regime that terrorized the world and brutalized its own people is on its last legs—with those legs now nearly dismembered. Clerics purporting to be men of God, but who were actually cold killers, Jew-haters and enablers of child rape, are now, thankfully, dead. Since 1979, these fanatical Muslims killed at least 1,000 Americans. […]

I’ve become a student of that human species I call the Incredibly Serious Trump Hater. A cardinal rule for Incredibly Serious Trump Haters is that one must never give Trump any credit for anything, no exceptions. If by accident Trump does something that looks good, one must immediately change the subject and go right to […]

The Yeshiva University Maccabees edged the Bates Bobcats in the first round of the NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament in a nail-biting 71-69 victory, led by Zevi Samet’s 27 points. Samet, a shooting guard from Monsey, New York, takes his nickname is honor of the Kobe Bryant but plays more like Steph Curry. Samet hit […]

“I’m scared,” the person types. “I can’t sleep. My whole body is shaking.” There was a siren earlier. It’s quiet now, but the fear hasn’t left. It is early evening in Los Angeles, before dinner, when the day has not quite ended yet. But across the ocean in Israel, it is already the deepest part […]