Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press More than a hundred former major leaguers died in 2019. I will focus, though, on the six who had the biggest impact on me (I either collected their baseball cards or interviewed them on the baseball beat). Jim Bouton in 1969 * Jim Bouton gained fame as a 24-year-old pitcher for […]

Photo Credit: Hassan Jedi / Flash 90 Preparing incendiary balloons to start more fires in southern Israel. Israel unveiled on Thursday a new laser system called “Light Blade” that will shoot down incendiary balloons and kites, as well as drones launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip. The incendiary devices from Gaza have ignited more […]

Photo Credit: Flickr / John Gillespie / CC 2.0 Chris Gunness (JNS) Former United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) spokesperson Chris Gunness launched a bizarre Twitter rant this week against Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Instead of peace on earth and goodwill toward men, Gunness unleashed scathing attacks on […]

Photo Credit: Yeshivat Machon Meir Rav Tzvi Kustiner The IDF has decided to terminate the reserve duty service of Rav Tzvi Kustiner – founder and rosh yeshiva of the Mitzpeh Rimon Hesder Yeshiva since 1991 – for his vocal opposition to women serving in army combat roles. For the past 10 years, Rav Kustiner, 62, […]

Photo Credit: Asher Scwartz {Originally posted to Rabbi Weinberg’s website,  The Foundation Stone } The youth who, “interpreted for each in accordance with his dream (Genesis 41:12),” understood that even the best dream interpretation must be reinterpreted. The first hint is when we read that Joseph did not think of them as “His dreams,” but […]

Photo Credit: Qasamaan via Wikimedia The Jewish cemetery in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2008 The Jewish cemetery of Beirut, located close to Sodeco Square, on Rue de Damas, has sustained severe damage by the storms which are raging through Israel’s neighbor to the north, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. According to the report, the heavy […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Newly elected Prime Minister Boris Johnson wooed British Jews with a very friendly Chanukah message. In a two-minute video, he said, among other things: “I know that recent years have not been easy ones for British Jews. In the media, on the streets and particularly online, anti-Semites have in alarming numbers been […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem NY Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday ordered a state hate crimes task force to investigate the Monday attack on an Orthodox man in Manhattan, which followed a string of anti-Semitic attacks in recent days (Man Curses, Punches, Kicks Orthodox […]