Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Tuesday was the 19th of Kislev. On that day over 200 years ago, the Alter Rebbe left a Russian prison. His students explain that on that same day Chasidut also left prison and began to spread, breaking through every boundary. Here are three crucial truths from Tanya, the fundamental text that […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, June 27 2019 New York is providing $10 million to protect “religious-based institutions and non-public schools from hate crimes,” announced Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday. The funds would support more than 200 projects, said the governor’s office […]

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Photo Credit: Fibonacci Blue / Wikipedia IlhanOmar (JNS/Israel Hayom) Seventeen members of Congress, led by Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday calling on the administration to dramatically reduce its sanctions against Iran, which Omar characterized as “economic warfare.” The […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Liran Carmel and his mysterious Denisovan. Last September, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers Prof. Liran Carmel and Dr. David Gokhman captivated the science world with their reconstruction of a Denisovan, the mysterious human species that lived 100,000 years ago but disappeared. Now, Science magazine, which has named […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Haredi students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva. A NY City Department of Education report of 28 Haredi yeshivas published Thursday found that only two of them provided secular education that meets NY State standards. The report says that city officials have visited those 28 yeshivas starting in 2015, and only two of them […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Gaon Rabi Yaakov, known throughout Europe as the Dubno Maggid, was a brilliant orator and scholar. He was never at a loss for words, and always had a parable or a story from the Torah to fit the occasion. In his younger years, he was a merchant and often traveled […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I stayed up very late recently listening to the results of the UK’s general election. Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party had moved toward policies so far-left, the entire country might have had to be renamed Venezuela. They lost to Boris Johnson and his Conservatives, and lost hugely. The defeat of […]