Author: David Rutman

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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 […]

Photo Credit: Fire and Rescue Services of the Negev Firefighters combat flames at Kargal factory in Lehavim Firefighters from Be’er Sheva, the Bedouin city of Rahat and a number of district stations worked for hours to combat a blaze Monday morning in the Kargal cardboard and packaging factory at the Idan Ha’Negev industrial park. The […]

Photo Credit: Ben Kelmer / Flash 90 Israeli palm trees in high winds (file) Two young girls, ages 8 and 9, were injured Monday morning while waiting for a school bus north of Tel Aviv, when a palm tree collapsed on top of them, knocked over by extremely windy conditions. One of the girls, age […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 Strictly religious Jews brave high winds at Har Zeitim (Mount of Olives) cemetery in Jerusalem. (file) The Nature and Parks Authority has announced it is closing a significant number of hiking trails throughout the country as of Monday ahead of potentially dangerous weather conditions. “Due to extreme weather warnings, it is […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / JPhillips23 University of Toronto’s University College Building The University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) was forced to eat crow this week after refusing to support an ongoing campaign by the campus Hillel organization to secure kosher food access for students. In a statement issued Sunday evening, the GSU apologized for […]