Author: David Rutman

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 […]

“If you are looking for a black–and-white narrative, you might want to take up checkers,” Thomas Friedman wrote this week in The New York Times. He was referring to the Middle East in general, which he called “a complicated, kaleidoscopic region where religion, oil, tribal politics and great power politics interweave in every major story.” […]

The fourth episode of the Israel Bonds-sponsored ILTV’s digital series, “One-on-One,” brought one of the most urgent and unapologetic voices in Jewish advocacy to the forefront: Emily Austin, a sports journalist, model, entrepreneur, and social media influencer with over three million followers who has made it her mission to be loudly, proudly, and uncompromisingly Jewish. […]

“No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight,” boasted President Donald Trump, speaking to the people of Iran shortly after unleashing a joint attack that may have finally ended the theocratic nightmare that has been their miserable fate since 1979. He was right: For nearly half a century, the Iranian […]