Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: YouTube screen grab / Fox News President Donald Trump signs the Executive Order Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses. The order – advanced in large part by Jared Kushner, senior advisor to the president – effectively includes Jews as a protected class under Title […]

Photo Credit: Chanh Nguyen / Pixabay The White House The two top security officials in Israel and the United States met Wednesday to discuss ways to coordinate efforts on “countering Iran’s destabilizing influence and activities in the region.” Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat met with his American counterpart, US National Security Adviser Robert C. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press For a number of years, my late father-in-law would fly from Queens, New York to Israel in order to spend the holiday of Chanukah with us. My husband, Abe, was the one to pick up his father at Ben Gurion Airport and bring him to our home, south of Jerusalem. Sometimes […]

Photo Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO L-R: Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz, President Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin and EJC and World Holocaust Forum Foundation president Dr. Moshe Kantor His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, has confirmed his attendance to the upcoming Fifth World Holocaust Forum, entitled “Remembering […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In last week’s parsha Yaakov Avinu davened to Hashem “Hatzileini na miyad achi miyad Eisav – Please save me from the hand of my brother from the hand of Eisav.” The Bais HaLevi asks the obvious question, why does it need to say achi – my brother and Eisav? Yaakov only […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Shown here is an invitation to transportation and engineering forces in the British Army in Persia and Iraq for the “[Jewish] Officers and Other Ranks of No. 1. Pal. Docks & L. of C. Checking Coy.R.E. Paiforce” in Baghdad. The invitation is for “a party to be held on the occasion […]

Photo Credit: CCTV footage, screen grab via Twitter / Christian @Lafvnte Domestic terrorists targeting Jews in JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey on Dec. 10, 2019 The fight against antisemitism is shaping up to be a true battle royale in Jersey City, New Jersey — one that has barely begun, despite the fact […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press We all have our share of good times and bad ones. Life is full of happy experiences and unfortunately, of hard times as well. That is the nature of the world, sometimes we’re up and sometimes we’re down. The problem isn’t what comes our way but how we approach it. After […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Vol. LXIX No. 51                           5780New York CityCANDLE LIGHTING TIMEDecember 20, 2019 – 22 Kislev 57804:13 p.m. NYC E.S.T. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Sabbath Ends: 5:18 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Sabbath Ends: Rabbenu Tam 5:44 p.m. NYC E.S.T.Weekly Reading: VaYeshevWeekly Haftara: Koh […]

Photo Credit: Baruch Lytle Rabbi Gavriael Moskowitz during a demonstration on Monday evening. In the wake of the Jersey City shootings last week, Rabbi Gavriael (Gary) Moskowitz – who has been training in martial arts for close to 50 years – wants Jews to be prepared. “The Jewish community has had a long history of […]