Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: flash90 Water, Oil or Gas? {Reposted from the MEF website} As ever, the Middle East is monumentally in flux. As usual, most developments are negative. Here’s a guide: Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Water replaces petroleum as the key liquid: Oil and […]

[embedded content] Rabbi Mordechai Machlis, a Rebbe at Yeshivat Lev HaTorah and the spiritual director of the Jerusalem Hospitality Project, says that for many years, his daily prayers have focused on being alive to be able to see the prophesied ingathering of the exiles from the Diaspora. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. The United Nations voted Friday 170-2 to extend the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency for three more years, until 2023. The resolution, which […]

Photo Credit: Active Implants LLC. Israeli surgeons perform the artificial meniscus implant on Nov. 11, 2019. The world’s first successful “artificial meniscus” transplant was just performed in Israel, i24News reported on Monday. The surgery was performed by Dr. Gabriel Agar from the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in Be’er Ya’akov and Dr. Ron Arbel from Ramat […]

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Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90 A sign in the Jewish settlement of Efrat in Gush Etzion. / Gershon Elinson/Flash90 Reactions to the historic US position shift on Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, as not being illegal nor against international law: Prime Minister Netanyahu released the following statement: Today, the United States adopted an important policy […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in Yad Vashem, March 21, 2019. According to an Associated Press report Monday (AP Exclusive: US softens position on Israeli settlements), Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is preparing to renounce a 1978 opinion written by the legal adviser of the Department of State Herbert J. Hansel […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Then Chief of Staff Benny Gantz with MK Avigdor Liberman, March 05, 2012. Is Blue&White chairman MK Benny Gantz about to declare himself the prime minister of a minority coalition government that relies on the far left and the Arabs? The glaring proof took place Monday in the Knesset plenum, when MK […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Bobover1 Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, Satmar Rebbe in synagogue on Hanukkah in Kiryas Yoel, NY 2006 The Grand Rabbi of Satmar is arriving in Israel Tuesday for a 10-day visit to the Holy Land. The Rebbe first stopped for a visit to his institutions in the Stamford Hill and Golders Green […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press As a child, I loved the movie “Home Alone.” I fantasized about how I would behave if I were left behind while my family was on vacation. Little did I know that as an adult, I would be arranging for my own children to be left at home, while hoping to […]