Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: courtesy, Williamsburg Shomrim via NY Post Teenage gang in Brooklyn attacks Williamsburg shteibel while Jews are praying. Bad news for Jews in Gotham: not only were there more anti-Semitic incidents this past year in New York City, there was a massive gap between the number of incidents and the arrests that followed — […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Adam E. Moreira New York Police Department vehicle A Jewish woman was “physically harassed’ — a technical term that does not address the trauma she experienced in what was actually an attack — by two black teens (male and female) on the final day of 2019 in the Crown Heights section […]

Photo Credit: Hana Levi Julian (illustrative) A Jewish teen was threatened Monday night by a pair of armed anti-Semites in the Bensonhurt section of Brooklyn, according to a report published by the New York Post. The attackers yelled, “Hey Jew boy” as they flashed a knife at the 17-year-old, who was walking on Avenue O […]

Photo Credit: Solidarity Rally No Hate. No Fear. Jewish leaders are calling for tri-state Jews, “our friends in the Black community” and friends and supporters in every other community as well for that matter to “come out and stand with us” in a solidarity march and rally this coming Sunday, January 5, to say “NO […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially presented a request for immunity Wednesday evening in a 71-point letter handed to Yuli Edelstein, Speaker of the Knesset, in connection with the indictments he faces in three criminal cases. The letter, written by the prime minister’s defense attorneys […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Neumann family via Twitter / OJPAC Yosef Neumann’s injuries after an anti-Semitic attacker with a machete stabbed and slashed him seven times at a Chanukah celebration in Monsey, Dec. 28 2019 A 70-year-old father of seven and grandfather of many more, hospitalized in critical condition after a machete attack on a Chanukah […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Siyum HaShas in Yerushalayim for English Speakers 5780 The International Convention Center in Jerusalem was packed to the rafters Wednesday night (Jan. 1 2020) as Talmud scholars and regular Jews alike joined to celebrate the conclusion of daily study of the Talmud at the Siyum HaShas for English Speakers. There are […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot from ‘Pictorial History Of The Jewish People’, by Nathan Ausubel Chassidic warriors who served in the IDF in the 1948 War of Liberation. JTA, which probably would not invite Haredi authors to share their views on intermarriages, homosexuality, kosher slaughtering and circumcision, on Tuesday invited Shimon Rolnitzky, writer, activist and Chassidic resident […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Rudy Giuliani visits Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, June 7, 2018. Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday told WOR AM radio that Mayor Bill de Blasio has failed to learn the lessons of the Holocaust, and charged: “You’re the mayor, you’re responsible, do your job.” “The two great lessons of the Holocaust […]