Author: David Rutman

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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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, […]