Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: vDoD photo by D. Myles Cullen Released An Israeli soldier looks over the Syrian and Jordanian borders from the Golan Heights, Israel, {Originally posted to the BESA website} Whichever Israeli government ends up coming to power will be faced with a set of urgent security challenges that are coming from a range of […]

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis host the Israeli robotics team that participated in the First Global Challenge robotics Olympiad in Dubai, Nov. 6, 2019. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis welcomed the Israeli robotics […]

Photo Credit: YouTube screen grab UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl, August 2019 UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl has resigned from his post, effective immediately, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric announced Wednesday at a news briefing. Krahenbuhl was placed on administrative leave while an internal probe was taking place to investigate “credible and corroborated” allegations of serious […]

Photo Credit: The Brit Olam World Noahide Center A group of Bnei Noach from Taiwan visit Rabbi Sherki (fifth from right) at the Brit Olam center in Jerusalem. Two weeks ago, with the approach of Parshat Noach, the Brit Olam World Noahide Center, founded in 2011, announced the completion of a Shulchan Aruch for Bnei […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, I am engaged to a wonderful girl who seems perfect for me in every way. The only small glitch is that her parents are very wealthy and I am worried that they will try to control every decision and plan that we make in the future. They are […]

Photo Credit: Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection, donated by Elhanan Ejbuszyc, Israel Chess pieces carved by Elhanan Ejbuszyc. Artifacts from the Holocaust – which arguably began on Kristallnacht 81 years ago this Shabbos – provide us with an intimate link to the Jews who lived through those horrific years. By the items they left behind, we […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks at the Knesset. Justice Minister Amir Ohana (Likud) on Wednesday used his parliamentary immunity to expose from the Knesset podium the prohibited means of interrogation used by police against former Netanyahu adviser Nir Hefetz. An Israeli court, responding to a police request, had placed a gag […]

Photo Credit: Harris & Ewing collection at the Library of Congress Editor’s note: In September, Jewish Press columnist Saul Jay Singer wrote an article on Felix Frankfurter to which Dr. Rafael Medoff – director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of numerous books on the Holocaust – took great […]