Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: SCREENSHOT Replacing cross atop Mosul church with ISIS flag. {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} A recognition of the religious freedoms offered by secular non-coercive states should be of particular importance to Muslims worldwide. It is a serious criticism of Islamic practice both historically and in the modern era that many Muslim […]

Photo Credit: Free image from Public.Resource.Org Kirk Douglas Kirk Douglas was born as Issur Danielovitch on December 9, 1916, in Amsterdam, New York, on the Mohawk River, the son of Bryna and Herschel Danielovitch. Douglas grew up as Izzy Demsky and legally changed his name to Kirk Douglas before entering the US Navy in World […]

In New York City, smacking a Jew in the face for the hell of it is OK. Oh, you will get arrested if a cop sees you doing it, but in a larger sense, it’s OK, because everyone knows that Jews are racists, and you can do anything you want to a racist. Advertisement ‘); […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Rabbi Nataf It is [like this] with mothers. Whey they have borne their children and given them their milk and beauty and strength, they themselves become insignificant and no one asks about them anymore…. Perhaps it is sad and yet also beautiful. Herman Hesse, The Journey to the East Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / FLASH90 Haim Ramon, June 29, 2009. “Aharon Barak is a judicial pirate because he robbed our parliamentary democracy,” former justice minister Haim Ramon (Labor) said on Sunday about the former president of Israel’s supreme court, the author of Israel’s “constitutional revolution.” Ramon spoke at the seventh annual Zionist Human Rights […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster /Flash90 Former education minister Gideon Sa’ar, November 21, 2018. MK Gideon Sa’ar, who is the front contender for the job of Likud chairman, in opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday morning told a special meeting of the Israel Allies Foundation in Jerusalem of the need for foreign governments to […]

Photo Credit: Pixabay {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Members of the Palestinian LTBGQ community continue to flee to Israel, where, unlike under the Hamas and Palestinian Authority regimes, they are free to lead normal lives. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); The gay […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps The view of Jerusalem from the Governor’s Palace promenade The US government has been given the green light by the Jerusalem municipality regarding the planning process of the permanent structure for the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Channel 12 reported Tuesday. The area on which it was decided to erect the embassy […]