Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Pinterest Jews like Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (pictured above with the beard) marched with Martin Luther King Jr. on the road to civil rights. Rev.King marched with the Jews on the road to a secure Israel. {Originally posted to The Lid website} Many of the recent anti-Semitic attacks in New York and New […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Blue&White chairman Benny Gantz, January 1, 2020. MK Avi Nissenkorn (Blue&White), chairman of the Arrangements Committee, is meeting with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) at noon Wednesday to obtain his consent to form the Knesset Committee, despite the fact that the Knesset was dispersed last month. The move is intended to allow […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I just acquired a pair of extraordinarily rare prayer books published in New York in 1860 that offer insight on the wave of change that overcame American Jewry at this time. Titled Seder Tephilah: The Order of Prayer for Divine Service, and based on Leo Merzbacher’s German siddurim, it was the […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel Guerra President Donald J. Trump {Originally posted to the BESA website} “Trumpism” Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Trumpism is a phenomenon of unprecedented populist presidential behavior. Trump is the least presidential president in modern history. […]

Photo Credit: Mass Comm. Spec. 2nd Class Zachary A. Anderson / US Navy USS Bataan amphibious assault ship sails the Atlantic Ocean, Oct. 23 2019 President Donald Trump may be losing his patience, or at the very least, becoming somewhat exasperated with the attitude of the Iranian government, which has turned away two separate attempts […]

Photo Credit: Peter Rimar / Wikimedia Sign in Baghdad’s Green Zone, Iraq (April 2004) The Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah militia has warned Iraqi military personnel to stay away from Americans, beginning on Sunday evening. The militia told the Iraqis to remain at a minimum distance of one kilometer from US personnel stationed in Iraq, beginning from […]

Photo Credit: IAF Israeli, US and UK F-35 participate in the Tri-Lightning joint exercise. June 2019 Air strikes reportedly targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) forces at Suwayyah and Hiri, near Abukamal at the Iraq-Syria border late Saturday night. There are unconfirmed reports of several dead and others wounded after […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s parsha, Yaakov Avinu and his family migrated to Mitzrayim, and remained there for many years. The Gemara in Kiddushin 82a says that Avraham Avinu kept the entire Torah, even the mitzvos that may not have applied. The meforshim assume that this was the practice of the other Avos […]

[embedded content] Israel Police called on the public this weekend to pay attention to alerts that may be issued via the media in connection to the stormy weather that has arrived in the region, leaving its cold, wet fingers all over the various communities in the country. In one instance, Israel Police officers swam to […]