Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: wikimedia The Maccabees receive their father’s blessing to wage war against their Greek oppressors.  Twitter Chanukah. Most of what you read online about Chanukah falls into the category of bad fiction, domains of the anti-Chanukah. To understand why this is so, we  need to understand how Torah ideals degenerated over the centuries. The […]

[embedded content] A black attacker armed with a machete on Saturday night stabbed five Jews at Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg’s home at 49 Forshay Rd in Monsey, New York, and ran away, in an attack that followed a dozen anti-Semitic assaults on religious Jewish men, women and children (two assault victims were 6 and 7, one […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Hanukiyah created by world famous Venetian Glass Blower Maestro Gianni Toso {Originally posted to The Lid website} Jews across the world are now celebrating Chanukah. What most people (even Jews) know about Chanukah is either wrong, half the story, or peppered with charming untrue legends. Despite what you may have been told,  […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul on Monsey, NY Multiple people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in Rabbi Chaim Rottenburg’s (Rottenberg) shul, Netzach Yisrael, on Forshay Road in Monsey, NY, on Saturday night. The attack began in the Rabbi’s home, which is adjoined to the synagogue. The Chassidic community had gathered to […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I’ve spent over three decades in the classroom – in one capacity or another. I have learned, taught, mentored, and observed. Recently, I came across a book that speaks to those who are teachers – and those who are tasked with teaching the next generation in and outside of the classroom. […]

“We cannot rely on an election to solve our problems.” — Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), House Judiciary Committee chairman, Dec. 11, 2019, on the need to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump “Every legal precedent must begin at some point. … So, just because it involves the prime minister, we should delay the precedent for another time?” […]

Photo Credit: Noam revkin Fenton / Flash 90 Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat speaks during opening statements of a trilateral meeting between US National Security Adviser John Bolton and Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council, at the Orient House in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. National Security Council Director Meir Ben-Shabbat is […]

Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / TPS IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi Just two days before Iran kicked off a four-day joint naval military drill on Friday with Russia and China in the Gulf of Oman and the Indian Ocean, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.Gen. Aviv Kochavi told participants at a security conference “War is […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy, Lubavitch.com New York police maintain an emergency response base outside Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY (file) Anti-Semitism continues to rise in New York City, this time with two attacks over the weekend, both taking place in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. A black male in a […]