Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Hassan Jedi/Flash90 Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza, October 5, 2019. Hamas’s decision to refrain from entering this week’s violent cycle has led to a severe crisis within the Islamic Jihad leadership, Arab sources said Friday. Early Thursday morning, the terror group’s military arm pressed exacerbating the attacks on Israeli civilians, while the political […]

Photo Credit: Rabbi YY Rubinstein Rabbi YY Rubinstein In the 1980s, one of my close friends travelled to the USSR’s capital city, Moscow, to teach. The problem with his visit was that the subject he had come to teach was a highly illegal one. He had come to teach Torah. It was a very cloak-and-dagger, […]

Photo Credit: Steffen Prößdorf via Wikimedia Stephan Brandner of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. For the first time in post-WW2 German history, on Wednesday, Bundestag lawmaker Stephan Brandner of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was stripped of his role as a parliamentary committee chair for making comments that were widely condemned as anti-Semitic, […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90 Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer, July 23, 2002. Hyper-partisanship has claimed yet another victim – this time a person who, in normal times, would be considered a tzaddik. And while the vultures may crow over their misbegotten victory, we are all the poorer for it. Rabbi Elimelech Firer is a phenomenon in […]

Photo Credit: Gaza Now Facebook page Explosions in the sky as the IAF attacks southern Gaza, Nov. 15, 2019 Operation Black Belt continues, as the IDF attacked targets of the Islamic Jihad terror organization in the Gaza Strip overnight Friday. The attacks took place about three hours after the last barrage of Islamic Jihad rockets […]

Photo Credit: Sraya Diamant/TPS Israeli trucks carrying supplies for the Gazan people, entering Kerem Shalom cargo crossing on the Israel – Gaza border. Kerem Shalom, Jul 9, 2019. The IDF Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced late Thursday that the Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings with Gaza were reopened for the […]

Photo Credit: TPS Home hit by a Gaza rocket in Ashkelon. Nov. 12, 2018 The city of Ashkelon announced late Thursday night that it, too, will close its schools Friday due to the risk of rocket fire, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 12 television news. The announcement was made after Gaza terrorists launched […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I recently acquired a Yiddish booklet published called Hoypt Yedies Vegn Emigratsye In Galveston. Published in 1907, the work contains information and promotional material on the opportunities and success that can be found by moving to Galveston, TX. When we think of the throngs of Jewish immigrants to this country who […]

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 […]