Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS DM Naftali Bennett Defense Minister Naftali Bennett ordered the IDF and security forces to issue restraining orders against violent left-wing anarchist activists from operating in Judea and Samaria. Bennett released a statement declaring, “The circus is over, we will take a hard hand against domestic enemies who damage IDF soldiers and […]

Photo Credit: Planet Labs Inc./Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey / Wikimedia Satellite image showing damage to at least five structures at Ain al-Assad air base in Iraq in a series of precision missile strikes launched by Iran, Jan. 8, 2020 While there were no US deaths as a result of last week’s Iranian […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay US Capitol building More than 120 members of Congress issued letters of support to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an anti-Israel organization that was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror case that proved connections to Gaza’s ruling terrorist organization, Hamas, and other radical Islamic entities. The Washington […]

Photo Credit: US Holocaust Museum, courtesy, George Kadish / Zvi Kadushin Jews move their belongings into the Kovno Ghetto. A Lithuanian parliament committee is drafting legislation declaring that neither Lithuania nor its leaders as participating in the Holocaust, a lawmaker working on the bill said last month at a conference. “The Lithuanian state did not […]

[embedded content] A suspicious balloon cluster was located on Shabbat in a neighborhood in Sderot near the Gaza Strip border. Police arrived at the scene and a police sapper dismantled an explosive charge that was attached to the cluster. No one was injured. Earlier on Shabbat, another cluster of balloons from the Gaza Strip carrying […]

Photo Credit: IDF IDF soldiers at the site of the stabbing in Hebron, Saturday, January 18, 2020 A Jewish man, 22, was moderately injured in a stabbing incident on Tzir Hamitpalelim, the road connecting Kiryat Arba to the Patriarchs’ Cave in Hebron. MDA teams arrived at the site and provided him with medical treatment, then […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Do you ever feel like bedtime is never over in your house? Are you up and down the stairs a million times before it’s finally quiet? Are you constantly getting cups of water? Do you get up in the middle of the night to change the sheets? In my experience, a […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch explains that earth is called “aretz” since at its root is the word “ratz,” to run. He elaborates that from cradle to grave all of us are running. This is especially true in today’s world of e-mails and texts, two-income homes, and skyrocketing costs. If we want […]

Photo Credit: Shomrei Emunah Kedusha. That is the word that kept reverberating through my mind as I walked into the Shomrei Emunah synagogue and it only heightened throughout my visit. I knocked on the door of the magnificent edifice at the corner of 52nd Street and 14th Avenue in Borough Park and was greeted by […]