Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Elliotsorkin / CC 4.0 A member of Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich., is suing anti-Israel protesters and city leaders over weekly demonstrations outside the synagogue. The weekly Saturday anti-Israel protests have been going on for years. The 85-page complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Chashukei Chemed teaches us that if, G-d forbid, a Jew is homeless and sleeps on a park bench, he is exempt from the mitzvah of lighting Chanukah menorah. The mitzvah of menorah calls for ner ish u’beiso, for a candle to be lit in a man’s home. But why? Why […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Chanukah is the only Yom Tov not mentioned in Tanach. That’s why the Talmud asks (Shabbos 21b), “What’s Chanukah?” In answer, it describes in detail, not the stupendous military victory of the few over the many and the weak over the strong, but the spiritual miracle: “When the Greeks entered the […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “I must go say goodbye to the Kotel before I head back to New York tomorrow!” my mother-in-law announced. It was the morning of the seventh day of a jam-packed Chanukah (which coincidentally had included countless jam-packed sufganiyot as well), and my son, who was on vacation from yeshiva that day, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It would be an undisputed fact that the Jewish people and the state of Israel has had no greater friend in the white house than president Donald Trump; if people would be intellectually honest. No previous president has treated the Jewish nation and the state of Israel so well, so fair, […]

Photo Credit: Jonathan Karten’s Facebook page Jonathan Karten Jonathan Karten, 23, a senior at Columbia University, who served in the IDF with the rank of Sergeant, on Tuesday filed the first legal action since President Trump’s December 11 executive order applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish Americans. Karten asserts that […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press photo Campaign Button from the 1990’s {Originally posted to The Lid website} In the latest issue of New York Magazine, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he was more of a Jew than George Soros. While it is true that Soros is a Jew by birth and the former may is […]

Photo Credit: Dani Machlis/BGU Prof. Varda Shoshan-Barmatz of Ben-Gurion University Researchers from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in cooperation with the National Institute for Biotechnology of the Negev (NIBN) and the US National Institute of Health (NIH) have made a breakthrough in the fight against the lupus disease – identifying the path used by mitochondrial DNA […]