Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Tech. Sgt. Mike, PD-USAF A USAF KC-135E Stratotanker refuels an F-16C Fighting Falcon in mid-air. US military forces struck five Hezbollah targets Sunday in retaliation for an attack Friday on an Iraqi coalition base that killed one US civilian. Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman said the locations – three in Iraq and two in […]

Photo Credit: CST A fence with anti-Israeli graffiti in London in 2014. Antisemitic symbols were spray-painted along with the numbers “911” in nine different locations on Jewish shops, on bus stops and other venues around Hampstead in London this weekend. Jewish shop owners – including Oddbins and Esclot London, as well as a former café […]

Photo Credit: Fox News screen grab / via Facebook live news briefing NY Gov Andrew Cuomo speaks with reporters outside Rabbi’s home where machete attack took place after the Sabbath, Dec. 28 2019 A suspect has been taken into custody and charged in the machete attack at a Melave Malka Chanukah celebration at around 10:30 […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy NYC Mayor’s Office Mayor Bill de Blasio meets the Crown Heights Jewish community, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. The Guardian Angels private crime prevention group have begun patrolling Brooklyn’s Jewish neighborhoods to provide “visual deterrence” following an ongoing rise in the number of anti-Semitic attacks against the city’s Jews. Curtis Sliwa, who founded […]

Photo Credit: Liat Nadav-Ziv, Israel Antiquities Authority The Yavneh hoard. A stash of Chanukah Gelt was found last week during archaeological excavations in Yavneh conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority ahead of the development of a new neighborhood by the Israel Lands Authority. The archaeologists were surprised to discover a broken clay cruse containing gold […]

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Photo Credit: Chabad of Petaluma The humorist in me wants to tell this eggceptional story about a city comprised of chicken ranchers and how they fowled up. In reality, the story is one of a hard-working immigrant community, unique in its philosophical and political makeup; it is a microcosm of a community whose Jewish pride […]

Photo Credit: JewishPress.com Originally published on November 2, 2018. This past Shabbat, was a very exciting one for me. It was the yahrzeit of my Rav, Rabbi Meir Kahane (18th of Mar-Cheshvan) and it also marked 50 years since his founding of the Jewish Defense League way back in 1968. I was very active in […]

Photo Credit: Shifra Hoffman Meir Kahane and Shifra Hoffman This interview was originally published on June 26, 2019. Last month, 51 years ago, Rabbi Meir Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League (JDL). Its purpose was to fight for Jewish causes with as much gusto and pride as radical blacks and other groups were fighting for […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay The influenza virus has hit Israel hard this winter, with several deadly strains killing as many as 11 Israelis so far, and hospitalizing more than 100 in serious condition. As the flu outbreak spreads, only approximately 150,000 vaccines remain in stock. So far, nearly 1.7 million Israelis were vaccinated this winter. Advertisement […]