Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: SANA Sedqi Al-Makat The Israeli government on Thursday approved the release of two Syrian prisoners, Amal Abu Saleh and Sudki Al-Makat, the latter known as the oldest Syrian prisoner in Israel. Their release is a goodwill gesture for the return of the remains of Zechariah Baumel. Baumel was an American-Israeli soldier who lost […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Erik D. Anthony Two Israeli F-35 Adirs fly in formation Air strikes were reported late Thursday night close to the Iraq-Syria border, at the Syrian town of Albukamal. The strikes were being attributed to the Israeli Air Force by the Hezbollah-linked Al Mayadeen news network and […]

Photo Credit: WH.com President Donald Trump addresses the nation Who would have thought that President Donald Trump had such great skills as an actor? Trump appeared Thursday at a news briefing in Washington to allow journalists to practically drag the knowledge out of him that Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down on Wednesday […]

[embedded content] The Land of Israel has been blessed with an unbelievable amount of rain over the past two weeks – so much rain, in fact, that the amount of rain recorded in the north has broken the country’s 50-year record, according to the Israel Meteorological Service (IMS). At Lake Kinneret, (Sea of Galilee), the […]

Photo Credit: NYC Councilman Chaim Deutsch via Twitter Swastika drawn in black marker The family of a 65-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes, was horrified to discover that someone had drawn a big black swastika – and a happy face — on their loved one’s head with a permanent black marker. And […]

[embedded content] Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was undeniably shot down by the SA-15 anti-aircraft air defense system operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Division on Wednesday January 8 just after its departure from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, whether by mistake or not, according to a report published Thursday by The New […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Malka Leifer, a former school principal who is wanted on 74 charges of sexual abuse in Melbourne, Australia, is led out of the Jerusalem District Court. June 14, 2018. A psychiatric panel on Thursday decided that alleged sex offender Malka Leifer from Australia is mentally fit to stand trial and has […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Yosef went up to bury his father, and with him went all of Pharaoh’s servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, and all of Yosef’s household – his brothers and his father’s household …” (Bereishis 50:7). The Medrash relates that when the procession […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: Should the congregation say “Amen” after the berachah of “habocher b’amo Yisrael b’ahavah” (right before Shema)? I have seen different shuls do different things. M. Goldman Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); We noted last week that the Mishnah Berurah […]