Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: US Navy / Ed Barker / public domain NASA astronaut candidate Lt. Col. Mark Vande Hei and Lt. Cmdr. Patrick McCaslin, an instructor with Training Squadron (VT) 4, conduct a preflight check of the cockpit of a T-6A Texan II before an instrument training flight at Naval Air Station Pensacola The roots of […]

Photo Credit: Kedem Auction House Rav Shapira’s Daf Yomi Every seven and a half years, Jews throughout the world participate in a Siyum HaShas. Photographs of Rabbi Meir Shapiro are displayed at these siyumum, where he is hailed as the man who first suggested that Jews around the world study a daf a day until […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It wasn’t a miracle. Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz emphasized again and again when he taught this parshah that Yaakov moving the massive stone from the well was not a miracle. Yet, it was not a matter of physical strength either. It was a matter of heart and faith. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Chassidim have celebrated the 19th of Kislev (“Yud Tes Kislev”) ever since the Alter Rebbe (1745-1812) – author of Shulchan Aruch HaRav and Tanya – was released from czarist imprisonment on that date in 1798. It gained even greater significance, however, when 103 years later his great-great-grandson, the Rebbe Rashab (1860-1920), […]

Photo Credit: Free image from pexels.com Krispy Kreme store in London. Back in March, the German newspaper Bild reported that the Reimann family which owns Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Panera Bread, supported Hitler during the war and used Russian and French slave laborers. The tabloid’s four-page report resulted in a statement from the Reimanns that […]