Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: TPS Car sunk in water at a flooded street in Nahariyya following heavy showers and stormy weather. Jan 5, 2020. Extremely stormy weather hit Israel on Wednesday, causing deadly floods and significant damage to infrastructure and property, the latest winter wave to hit the country in the past week. Several coastal cities experienced […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot from LBC radio on YouTube Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on LBC radio Scotland Yard Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on Wednesday announced that six individuals, five of them Labour party supporters, had been arrested or interviewed with a warning following an investigation of their Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism on social media. According to […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 23, 2017. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone on Wednesday with President Donald Trump after Iran bombed a US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Iraq in response to the US’ assassination of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) […]

Photo Credit: Hossam el-Hamalawy via Flickr New research released Wednesday by AMCHA Initiative provides the first empirical evidence showing that faculty who support academic BDS are actively promoting this political agenda directly to students in their classrooms. The study (Bringing BDS into the Classroom), which examined 50 syllabi at 40 public and private colleges and […]

Photo Credit: US State Department / Wikimedia US Embassy in Baghdad The sounds of rocket explosions sent people running for safe spaces in the US Embassy compound in Baghdad again late Wednesday night, and triggered air raid sirens as well. The Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah (PMU’s 45th Brigade) militia launched unguided rockets at the Green Zone. […]

Photo Credit: Hashemite Royal Court King Abdullah II presents pilots’ wings to Princess Salma bint Abdullah II Jordan’s Princess Salma bint Abdullah II made history on Wednesday to become the first woman in the country to earn her wings as a military pilot. Clearly filled with paternal pride, the nation’s commander-in-chief, King Abdullah II pinned […]

Photo Credit: André Gustavo Stumpf / Wikimedia A “black box,” also known as a flight data recorder. Iran is refusing to allow Boeing, or US National Transportation Safety Board investigators to have access to the flight data records that were recovered from the crash on Wednesday of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 in Tehran. The […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Ordering your bar mitzvah boy’s tefillin so that they will be ready when you need them is an art form. A friend was sharing her disappointment that her son’s tefillin would not be arriving in time for him to put them on a month before his actual bar mitzvah, as is […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Jewish people’s third patriarch had three names: Yaakov, Yisrael, and Yeshurun. “Yaakov” is derived from the root ayin-kuf-bet, which means heel; the Torah tells us that he received this name because he was born holding onto his older brother heel (Genesis 25:26). Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]