Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA Main Entrance to the 92nd Street Y, Upper East Side, NYC The storied 92nd Street Y, which presents itself as a paragon of free speech dialogue and openness, is engaging in McCarthyite censorship — and trying to hide it. For the last quarter century […]

Photo Credit: Edi Israel / Flash 90 An Israeli Apache helicopter shoots a missile over the Gaza Strip, July 9, 2014. The IDF launched an attack on Hamas terrorist targets Saturday in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire launched from the enclave into Israel on Friday night. An IDF spokesman said that during […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny faced by a Haredi dignitary, November 4, 2019. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Shabbat held emergency talks, as he called them, with Likud MKs and ministers who are not Shabbat observers. In the talks, the prime minister said that according to […]

Photo Credit: Rebecca Kowalsky Backlit Fall leaves in the vineyards of Gush Etzion Rebecca Kowalsky has reinvented herself multiple times. Her latest passion, which she initially taught herself nearly 20 years ago, is photography. The mission of this latest venture is “to help people appreciate the beauty that surrounds them through photography.” Living in Israel […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Let’s resume our crash course on how to pray better: In the beginning of the Torah, we are informed that it did not yet rain upon the earth since “v’adam ayin laavod es ha’adomah – there was no man to work the ground.” But what does working the ground have to […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Our haftorah tells the story of Elisha and the Isha Hashunamis and the miracle of the tremendous amount of olive oil Hashem blessed her with. The question we can ask is why her miracle involved olive oil. Let us investigate the significance of olive oil in Torah thought, especially as it […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Schiffs were celebrating the bar mitzvah of their son, Efraim Yehudah. In honor of the occasion, they ordered a large cake for the kiddush in shul, and instructed the bakery to write the boy’s name on it. When they were about to bring out the cake on Shabbos, however, they […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90 Smoke from a rocket launch in Gaza. Nov. 13, 2019 Here we go again. Missiles are raining down upon millions of Jews from Gaza, and half of Israel’s population must take pains not to stray too far from the nearest bomb shelter. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]

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