Author: David Rutman

[embedded content] Hundreds of Jordanians protested in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Friday demanding that the government cancel a natural gas deal with Israel. Jordanian security forces stopped the protesters from reaching the Al-Nakheel Square, where the demonstration was expected to grow, the AP reported. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, […]

Photo Credit: TPS The Palestinian Press Association (PPA) has called for a boycott of the Al-Quds newspaper after it published an advertisement by the Israeli Regavim organization concerning land expropriation in the southern Hebron area. Regavim monitors and pursues legal action against illegal Arab construction, primarily in Judea and Samaria. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]

Photo Credit: Majdi Fathi/TPS A pro-Hamas rally in Gaza. Jan. 3, 2020 Hamas has decided to resume its violent actions along the border with Israel. Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front terror organizations are partners in this decision, which will lead to violent incidents, sources in […]

Photo Credit: Baruch Davidoff In December of 2003 a Stamford Hill, London dentist started hand-writing summaries of Rambam’s Mishnei Torah to make learning the iconic text easier for his two young sons. 15 years later, Rambam Press was born. Rambam Press went online with its website just before Tisha B’Av 2016 with an initial small […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps 45th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan Vernon Stevens, 55, of Brooklyn, shouted “[expletive] Jews!” at a couple that was dressed in traditional Chassidic clothing around 10:15 PM on Thursday, near the corner of 45th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, The NY Post reported Saturday. Police said they received an […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Polish president Andrzej Duda and Israeli president Reuven Rivlin attend a ceremony in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland, as Israel marks annual Holocaust Memorial Day, on April 12, 2018. “The March of the Living” is an annual educational program that brings students from all over […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush / Flash 90 It is election season in Israel The politicians and pundits are of course  in a very aroused  state. I find it less productive to examine the myriad of   politicians’ and talking heads  verbiage. I prefer  a zoom out on the over all  situation, background and trends, to the daily  […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Larry’s Letters Craig M. Considine PhD Department of Sociology, Rice University Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, secure: true }); Dear Dr. Considine, I have just read your comments about the Palestinian “beautiful culture” that you hope to experience and which you extoll. I have […]

[embedded content] Violent clashes between security forces and protesters in Downtown Beirut were “winding down” late Saturday night, following hours of confrontation, The Daily Star reported. The Lebanese Red Cross reported more than 220 injured, 80 of them hospitalized. Police say several protesters were arrested. The Lebanese Army was also deployed against protesters outside the […]

[embedded content] Roberto Alvim, the culture secretary in Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s government, was fired on Friday after quoting Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels in a video about the future of Brazilian art he had posted on Thursday. Alvim announced national prizes to revitalize the arts, with music by Hitler’s favorite composer, Richard Wagner, […]