Author: David Rutman

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 […]

Photo Credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami / Flash 90 El Al airlines, the national airline of Israel El Al Airlines has signed an agreement to sell a foreign company 12 engines manufactured by Pratt & Whitney, according to the Globes business news site. The deal is worth an estimated $30 million pre-tax capital gain on the date […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Have you ever felt an emotional tsunami hit you? Or an emotional train run you down? Since the damage that is felt after such an occurrence is emotional and not physical, it doesn’t get the proper attention from others. If someone, Heaven forbid, falls down and breaks a limb or gets […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Dr. Mordechai Kedar Dr. Mordechai Kedar, lecturer in Arabic culture at Bar-Ilan University, set off a firestorm last week when he said Yigal Amir did not assassinate former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned what he called Kedar’s “nonsensical remarks”; Bar-Ilan University temporarily suspended Kedar from representing the […]

Photo Credit: Ofer Zidon / Flash 90 A UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter unload 669 Search & Rescue crew, May 28, 2013. Sometimes, Shai Shani had to crawl through dark and cold caves for hours. Other times, he jumped into a tumultuous ocean in the middle of a thunderstorm. This was not done to serve an adrenaline […]