Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Elron Zabatani/TP The Hurva Synagogue ( Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah heHasid ) in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Sidna Omar mosque is seen left to the synagogue. Jerusalem, Nov 19, 2019. Residents of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem are preparing for widespread protests following the renovation […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90 Amid an intensifying global trade war, Israeli exports of goods and services are on track for another record year, with 4.6% growth in the first three quarters of 2019, compared to the same period of last year. An analysis by the Ministry of Economy and Industry (MEI) into data from the […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Amid all the discussions about Modern Orthodoxy, its past, present and future, it is perhaps helpful to look at two different paradigms into which Modern Orthodoxy currently divides itself: one positive, and one, well, less so. One individual grew up in a religious home, so punctilious in its observance of mitzvot and […]

Photo Credit: Ayelet Federation Nimrod Ryder wins the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships. Nov. 24, 2019 Israel’s national anthem, Hatikvah, was again played in Abu Dhabi on Sunday after Israel’s 21-year-old Nimrod Ryder won the gold medal in the Adult category at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships, crowning him world […]

Photo Credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90 Gideon Sa’ar on a tour of south Tel Aviv in 2013, a year before his retirement from political life. MK Gideon Sa’ar on Monday welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to hold Likud primaries for the post of party chairman in the coming weeks, but in an interview with Reshet […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan, November 4, 2019. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Last Thursday in Israel, the politicians were the big story. Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman was the villain who had held the country hostage for nearly a year as he fed his narcissistic personality […]

Photo Credit: Mark Neiman / GPO President Reuven Rivlin at the 4th Israel Climate Conference President Reuven presented the first Nechama Rivlin z’l prize for Sustainability on Sunday evening at the Fourth Israeli Climate Conference, which encourages public recognition of climate issues in Israel. The First Lady did much to advance the awareness of sustainability, […]

Photo Credit: Haim Zach / GPO Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Mt. Avital Iran is again planning to attack Israel, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but will not find the IDF asleep on the job whenever the attempt takes place. Netanyahu said during a security tour of the northern sector on Sunday (Nov. 24) […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Door Frame London Underground, Northern Line Tube Station with a train British Police say they have detained a suspect in connection with a vicious anti-Semitic attack last Friday by a man on the London Underground who verbally browbeat a Jewish family despite numerous attempts by other passengers to intervene. In UK: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press This is the unusual story of a Muslim family and a Jewish family who saved each other’s lives during two brutal wars, fifty years apart. During the Second World War many European countries were invaded by the brutal Nazis. In 1941, Yugoslavia was overrun. Seizing the city of Sarajevo, the Nazis […]