Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Shabbat Project Challah Bake in Buffalo This past Shabbat, the Jewish world took a well-deserved collective deep breath. From November 15-16, the 7th annual international Shabbat Project outdid its predecessors on all fronts, reaching 1,685 cities and 106 countries across the world, and attracting record numbers of participants in many of those cities. […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 UNRWA traps Palestinians in a cycle of stateless dependency. {Originally posted to the FirstOne Through website} The saga of the Stateless Arabs from Palestine (SAPs) which have cast their lot with UNRWA for generations may finally be coming to an end. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: […]

Photo Credit: FLASH90 PM Netanyahu’s attorney and cousin David Shimron, February 01, 2015. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attorney and cousin David Shimron on Monday told Reshet Bet radio there’s no doubt he had committed no offense in the Case 3,000 affair, a.k.a. the submarines case, and he hopes the legal system would be persuaded. Case […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Q: Why is it so hard for me to accept criticism? I feel like it will help me grow, but I never want to listen once it is being said. Is there something I can do to change this about myself? A: Harvard professors Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen argue that […]

Photo Credit: Twitter Jordanian FM Ayman Safadi {Originally posted to the authors’ blog} This is an open letter. Minister HE Dr Ayman Hussein Abdullah Al-Safadi, Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,Ministry of Foreign […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Leah Goldin (R) and Zehava Shaul protest outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem, August 5, 2018. PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday met with the families of IDF Soldiers Lieutenant Hadar Goldin and Sergeant Oron Shaul, whose bodies have been held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since the 2014 Operation […]

[embedded content] The mitzvah of a Jew coming to live in the Land of Israel is not an obligation, but rather is a commandment of choice because it is the will of God, according to the numerous sources quoted by Rabbi Shalom Gold, the Rav of Kehilat Zichron Yoseph in the Har Nof neighborhood of […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Ofer Ohana Smashed windshield on Gush Etzion bus Palestinian Authority terrorists smashed the windshield of a bus in a stone-throwing attack early Sunday as it traveled the roads of Gush Etzion in Judea. Miraculously, no one was physically injured. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, […]

Photo Credit: IDF Molotov cocktails (2016) Dozens of ready-to-use firebombs (Molotov cocktails) were found this weekend hidden in a Christian cemetery in the Galilee Arab village of Tur’an. A total of 34 of the firebombs were discovered, all of them primed and ready for use. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: […]

Photo Credit: Dudu Greenspan / Flash 90 Bomb squad sappers from Israel Police at work. (illustrative only) Amsterdam Police bomb squad units were dispatched to a synagogue in the Dutch city of Delft this weekend after a bomb threat was received outside the building. Police sealed off the area while sappers examined the alleged bomb, […]