Author: David Rutman

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 […]

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 […]