Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press This week’s parshah brings one of the most famous stories in the Torah to a surprising conclusion. After 22 years of separation from his brothers – after they had thrown him into a pit and sold him to a passing caravan – Yosef meets up with them again, having since become […]

Photo Credit: Youtube Screenshot of Agudah’s 12th Daf Yomi Siyum at Metlife Stadium הודו לה׳ כי טוב כי לעולם חסדו What a magnificent venue.  What a beautiful day.  And what a momentous occasion. Today is special not only because we join Jews around the world celebrating the completion of the 13th cycle of Daf Yomi, […]

Photo Credit: David Cohen/Flash90 Chasidim dance on Zot Chanukah on Mt. Meron, December 30, 2019. Zot Chanukah (this is Chanukah) is a reference in Torah literature to the eighth day of Chanukah, since on that day the Torah reading includes the verse Zot Chanukat Ha’Mizbe’ach (this is the inauguration of the altar. Numbers 7:64). Chasidim […]

Photo Credit: Ehud Amiton / TPS Snow on Mt. Hermon. April 22, 2019 Just when it was finally opened with some snow for the winter season, Israel’s Hermon mountain was closed today to visitors, by IDF order, and visitors are asked to not even approach the area. The IDF said there are no other special […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Torah tells us: “Venishmartem me’od lenafshoteichem” (Devarim 4:15). Literally, the verse means “Be very careful about your lives,” but the rabbis teach us that this mitzvah is referring specifically to our health. They also point out that it is the only mitzvah which uses the word “meod,” meaning very. We […]

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Photo Credit: Pixabay Jews in the U.S. are being targeted daily, assaulted in broad daylight by myriad anti-Semites and the secular Jewish establishment remains, remarkably, silent. Is there a reason for the disunity? Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 10 });

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Photo Credit: Ancho. Via Flickr Joe Biden Back in May 2011, when President Barack Obama gave the order to take out the founder and leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, in Pakistan, he virtually guaranteed his reelection one year later. President Donald Trump, who has already taken out one mega-terrorist, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, […]