Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Andrew McIntire / TPS Israel Employment Center Israel’s unemployment rate rose to 3.9 percent in November, after October’s record-low 3.4 percent figure, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This month’s unemployment rate of 3.9 percent, while still very low, is the highest the country had seen since June, when the unemployment […]

Photo Credit: Wisam Hashlamoun / Flash 90 Head of Palestinian national security forces in Hebron Brig. Gen. Hazem Abu Hanood and head of the Palestinian police Brig. Gen. Ahmad Abu Rob talk to residents during a visit to the Old City in Hebron on July 31, 2018. Part of the $1.37 trillion spending bill that […]

Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton / Flash 90 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo (left), President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades (second from left), and former Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, on March 20, 2019. The governments of […]

Photo Credit: Israel Police spokesperson’s unit Antisemitic attack on the Boyan synagogue in Modiin Illit, Dec. 23 2019 Shocking devastation met the eyes of the morning worshipers when they arrived Monday at 6:30 am at the Boyan Chasidic synagogue in the central Israeli city of Modi’in Illit for the Shacharit service on the first day […]

Photo Credit: Elviwines-Cohen Family The opportunity to visit Spain has been a dream of mine for many years. My dream became a reality one evening while we were discussing wine over dinner and had an epiphany. A few weeks later we packed our bags and we were Barcelona bound. Around 1.5-hour drive south of Barcelona […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / UK Government UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Britain would not be Britain without its Jewish community, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a video message in which he vows to “stand with you and celebrate with you – at Chanukah and all year round.” Britain would not be Britain without its […]

Photo Credit: Engin Akyurt / Pixabay (illustrative) An Arab prison inmate sentenced in 2012 to 10 years’ incarceration after his conviction on charges of selling land to Jews has died in a Ramallah hospital run by the Palestinian Authority after being admitted two weeks ago. Arab affairs investigative journalist Khaled Abu Toameh quoted PA police […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The menorahs are polished, the dreidels are ready to make their annual appearance and donuts and latkes seem to be just about everywhere. Yup, Chanukah is here and whether you are looking for new recipes to enhance your holiday celebrations or gifts that will hit the spot, these two fabulous new […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot Nancy Pelosi says House will go forward with Trump impeachment inquiry {Originally posted to The Lid website} Twenty-one years after Bill Clinton’s impeachment and 3 years after Hillary Clinton’s well-deserved loss, Washington Democrats are exacting political revenge on behalf of the Clintons by impeaching Donald Trump for winning the 2016 election. That is […]

Photo Credit: Shomrim Crown Heights / Twitter Screenshot Three men attack a Jewish man in Crown Heights. Jan. 30, 2019 {Originally posted to the JNS website} Jill Jacobs is a rabbi. A Conservative rabbi. She is the executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]