Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Iron Dome anti-missile defense battery set up in the southern Israeli city of Sderot fires an intercepting missile. Iron Dome fighters shot down two rockets over the city of Sderot late Thursday night, launched by Gaza terrorists. The system was activated when it became clear the rockets were […]

Photo Credit: Helen Schwimmer Growing up, my family sang long, soul-stirring, chassidic nigunim at our Shabbos table, but during the week, we listened to the music of our uncle Shlomo, a”h – the twin brother of my father, Rav Eliyahu Chaim Carlebach, a”h. His records played all day long. We five Carlebach girls could sing […]

Photo Credit: pixabay In response to the targeted killing of arch-terrorist Baha Abu Al-Atta, Arab militants besieged the Jewish state with over 500 missiles in less than 72 hours. School closings, industrial paralysis, traumatized children hovering in bomb shelters and relentless wails of air raid sirens have defined the past week in the Jewish State. […]

Photo Credit: pixabay Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Dr. Stephen Bryen to address Iran’s provocative nuclear and missile threats to Israel and the US. Dr. Bryen is a former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense during the Reagan Era, a noted military technologist and Asia Times columnist. This timely discussion occurred on news […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Israeli school children sit in bomb shelters equipped by donors, waiting for the rocket fire to end. (Archive: June 2, 2015.) Local communities living near the Gaza border have elected to keep their schools closed this Friday after having been told they could return to their regular routine […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Rahamim Maimon Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, Chief of the US National Guard Bureau and his wife Sally with girls from the Shiluv Preparatory program of Ma’agalim, plus Ma’agalim CEO Assaf Weiss on Nov. 13 2019 in Tel Aviv A US military official says he would like to see the United States have […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s parsha we learn of the monumental act of hachnasas orchim that Avrham Avinu performed to the three men passing by his home. There are many details in the service Avraham Avinu offered that had tremendous effects on future generations. The Gemara in Baba Metziya 86b says in the […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Question: What did our sages mean when they said that anyone who resides outside the Land Israel is like an idol worshipper? Is that what all of us residing outside Israel are – idol worshippers? M. Goldblum Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “Avraham raised his eyes and saw the place from afar…and Avraham said to his young men: Stay here by yourselves with the donkey, while I and the lad go there” (Bereishis 22:4-5). What did Avraham Avinu see? He saw a cloud hovering over Har HaMoriah and understood that that was where […]