Author: David Rutman

[embedded content] The Chief Rabbinate Council last Thursday ruled that a person’s Jewish status must not be investigated because of their country of origin or skin color, Reshet Bet radio reported Monday morning. The rabbinate’s decision was made following a Kan 11 exposé a year ago about Ethiopian workers at the Li-Bar catering plant in […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 {Originally posted to the Elder of Ziyon website} Haaretz has a fascinating article about the amount of support the Netanyahu governments have given to Israel’s Arab minority, a story that the Western media is simply unaware of (besides some bloggers…) Ron Gerlitz says he will never forget that dramatic week at the […]

Photo Credit: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL They who sow the wind will reap the storm – Hosea 8:7.   Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); [There is a] dangerous symbiosis between elements in the police Major Crimes Unit, the State Prosecutor’s Office and the media.—citation from Justice […]

Photo Credit: Courtesy Arab workers at SodaStream’s factory in Maaleh Adumim may be replaced by Bedouin in the company’s new plant in the Negev. Marianne Borgen Mayor of Oslo Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Norway Dear Mayor Borgen, Oslo has voted to refrain from […]

Photo Credit: Boro Park Shomrim Tweet Assailants in Boro Park pin Jewish man against a car. A passenger punched him and the gang fled. NY Police recorded three attacks involving a passenger car that was cruising for Orthodox Jewish pedestrians in Boro Park late Friday night. According to the Boro Park Shomrim group, the first […]

Photo Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90 Construction work in Efrat, July 22, 2019. The State of Israel recently informed the High Court of Justice about its decision to transfer the powers of land registration in the liberated territories to the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, The Marker reported on Sunday. The word tabu is an Arab […]

Photo Credit: Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90 Filipino workers and their children, alongside Israeli school children, protest the deportation order against Filipino workers, October 31, 2019. An appeals court judge on Sunday canceled the deportation orders against two foreign workers from the Philippines and their children, ruling that Israel’s Immigration and Population Authority had not properly considered the […]

Photo Credit: Facebook Holocaust survivor, Prof. Harold Kasimow A Palestinian student at Benedictine University last week called on professor Harold Kasimow, a child survivor of the Holocaust, to condemn the establishment of Israel and the “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in Israel, walking out when he did not do so. Kasimow is the George Drake Professor […]