Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: YouTube screenshot President Emmanuel Macron vists Lebanon, Jan 28, 2017. France is taking steps to help Lebanon solve its difficulties in forming a new government in the face of failed efforts to reach an agreement between the multiple ethnic factions, while street protests against the political elite continue, al-Joumhouria reported on Friday. High-ranking […]

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Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / FlasH90 Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits a home in Sderot that was hit by a Qassam rocket from Gaza, January 4, 2009. Former New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, 77, who bypassed the two-term limit on his Gracie Mansion job and squeezed out a third stint, and who ran as […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Do we have the courage to swim against the stream? To be in the minority? To be different? Parshat Lech Lecha presents us with the father of our nation, Avraham Avinu, who blazes a new trail. He teaches us not to be concerned about Judaism’s refusal to adopt the ways of […]

Photo Credit: Google Maps Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST) high school in Sandy Hook, NJ. The State of New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division on Civil Rights (DCR) on Thursday announced issuing a Finding of Probable Cause (FPC) against the Monmouth County Vocational School District over its alleged failure […]

Photo Credit: wikimedia This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by […]

Photo Credit: pixabay There are no boundaries anymore. Life used to be simpler. A man was a man, and a woman was a woman. They would marry, procreate, and pass on. The same cycle would then repeat itself, over and over again, in much the same way. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press When it comes to learning Torah, one of the more popular arguments of the yetzer hara is BTDT – Been There Done That. Example: “Why do you have to review this week’s parshah? You know Sefer Bereishis backwards and forwards. Why don’t you dedicate your precious learning time to new frontiers?” […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The left-right divide in America is, unfortunately, unbridgeable. There are three reasons: First, we are divided by our vision of what we want America to be. The right believes the founders’ vision was brilliant and moral, that bourgeois middle-class values are superior to alternative value systems; that rights come from G-d, […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Orthodox Jewish men arrive at the IDF enlistment base near Tel Hashomer, August 1, 2013. IDF data that summarize the last complete recruitment year, 2018, show an alarming rise in the number of exemptions from military service, Maariv reported Friday morning. The figures also show that, in 2018, there was a 30% […]