Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: pixabay Larry’s Letters Robert A. Brown, President Boston University Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / News Size #15: Banner 468×60 (Comments and Mobile) [468×60] –> ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); One Silber Way, 8th Floor Boston, Massachusetts […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press We are indeed lucky to be living in a time where there are so many great kosher cookbooks and new idea-filled volumes popping up every year. Creativity and flexibility are major themes in two new arrivals to the scene with recipes presented in innovative formats that really lend themselves to tailoring […]

Photo Credit: Mark Neiman (GPO) Bnei Akiva Yeshivot and Ulpanot Elchanan Glatt is to President Rivlin’s right; Rabbi Haim Meir Druckman is to his left. President Reuven Rivlin on Monday participated in the first education conference of Bnei Akiva Yeshivot and Ulpanot, together with the newspaper Makor Rishon, where he gave a class entitled “The […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, Sept. 15, 2010. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told a special Knesset session devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the PA Arabs “are not prepared to accept a Jewish nation state and have […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Richter/TPS Jonathan Ben-Artzi, the grandson of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yonatan Ben Artzi, the grandson of late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, was assailed by politicians and members of the media for the speech he gave Sunday during the memorial marking the 24th anniversary of his grandfather’s assassination. Ban Artzi claimed […]

Photo Credit: Public Image {Originally posted to The Lid website} The New York Times always finds new ways to attack President Trump and to attack Israel.  We’re talking about the paper that buried stories about Palestinian terror attacks but Israeli retaliations ran on page one. Trump Netanyahu Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment […]

Photo Credit: Flickr {Originally posted to the BESA website} Palestinian Islamic Jihad—the second-largest armed terror faction in Gaza after Hamas—is agitating for violence, and is in fact the organization that conducted Friday night’s rocket barrage on the Israeli border city of Sderot. Advertisement <!– Publisher #16: JewishPress.com Zone #113: Comment Banner / (02) / News […]

[embedded content] Police forces on Sunday evening surrounded a home in the Israeli community of Yitzhar in Samaria to arrest Neria Zarog, a resident who has openly defied an IDF administrative order banning him from the northern Shomron area, which includes his own home. Zarog, a married 21-year-old father of two, who works as a shepherd, received […]

Photo Credit: Shabus Facebook page Shabus station sign Shabus – the Cooperative Transportation Association operating on Shabbat – has ceased operations in Jerusalem due to lack of a budget, Kol Ha’ir reported Monday. An official statement issued by Shabus read: “We have been operating in Jerusalem and in other cities for five consecutive years and […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons One of the things I like about my job is the opportunity it gives me to meet and learn about different kinds of people and their cultures.Over the many years of guiding and meeting a varied group of people I feel have learned a lot. My latest group were Catholics from […]