Author: David Rutman

Habits die hard. In the fight against antisemitism, we’ve always assumed that it’s bad enough to label something or someone “antisemitic.” After all, just as racism is taboo, so is antisemitism. The problem is that an emotion is not an action. Hating Jews is an emotion. And just like any emotion or any label, it […]

Movie audiences everywhere await the premier of Christopher Nolan’s star-studded summer blockbuster, “The Odyssey,” featuring Matt Damon. Meanwhile, another movie, “Citizen Vigilante,” helmed by a largely unknown German director and starring Armie Hammer, who suffered the cancellation consequences of #MeToo, failed to get a commercial release. Nonetheless, “Citizen Vigilante” tops Amazon’s VOD streaming list at […]

As many expect Maine Democratic Senate Graham Platner to withdraw from the race after a rape accusation by Jenny Raciot, many Jews are wondering: Why wasn’t his Nazi tattoo (that he had changed after nearly 20 years) enough for people to not want him to win, in looking at not only Maine residents but Democrats […]

US-European tensions at the Ankara NATO summit highlight the tectonic changes in the US global posture. America First may be the most misunderstood doctrine in modern American foreign policy. A lot of people, including plenty of Republicans, hear it as isolationism, a signal that the United States plans to pull back from the world. Democrats […]

Why cruises, safaris, and road trips are the three greatest ways to travel as a family in 2026, and how to do all of them right. Some trips are just vacations. And then there are the ones your family never stops talking about. The road trip where you got a little lost and found something […]

It’s never too late to consider lessons of the Torah. For the Biblical holiday of Shavuos which celebrates the Israelites receiving the Torah, Jews read the biblical Book of Ruth, a pastoral love story set in ancient Israel. If not for the last five verses of the last chapter (4:17-22) which state that Ruth was […]

Here’s the best-kept secret about the World Cup, the soccer tournament that comes every four years and holds much of the world’s attention. From little villages in Africa to small towns in South America to distant reaches of the Far East to the world’s most glamorous cities, the “Mondiale” is that rare event that truly […]

A year ago, B-2 stealth bombers and “bunker busting” bombs attacked three nuclear sites in Iran. Whether the primary aim of the U.S. action was to help Israel, or to eliminate the potential threat posed by a nuclear-armed Iran to world order, is a moot point. However, there is no doubt about the meaning of […]

Most of us understand what America gave the Jews. Batya Ungar-Sargon knows what the Jews gave America. After almost two thousand years of exile, America became the place where Jews achieved genuine freedom. America not only offered unparalleled economic opportunity, but separated church and state, and prohibited religious tests for office. And while it has struggled to live up to […]