Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Certainly we know that Jews should be giving people. But why? It’s a religious imperative, of course, but there’s also an added benefit: Giving seems to lead to increased mental health and life expectancy. Some studies indicate that caregivers (even for non-family members) and those who consistently volunteer live longer than […]

Photo Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90 Palestinian Islamic Jihad members march during a military drill near the border with Israel, east of the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2018. (JNS) Since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Palestinian terror factions have turned Gaza into […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press In this week’s Parsha, we read about the mabul. Immediately following the mabul the Torah tells us that Noach planted a vineyard. The pasuk says “vayachel Noach ish ha’adama vayita kerem” (9:20). Rashi explains that the word vayachel comes from the word chulin and the Torah is teaching us that Noach […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The upright Baldwin piano that arrived at our home in Jerusalem on a lift of furniture that my parents had organized and paid for had not initially been expected. It worked out well that my father and most of my uncles had been in the furniture business. We received all of […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Amid all the drama of the impending flood and the destruction of almost all of creation, we focus on Noach building the ark, and hear one detailed instruction: “Make a tzohar for the ark and terminate it within a cubit of the top” (Bereishis 6:16). There is a difficulty understanding what […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press A new generation of mHealth technologies is expected to soon flood the market – but, unlike in the past, many of these new apps and devices are designed to help the chronically ill (as opposed to the healthy) among us. The new technologies enable patients to be monitored even outside conventional […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot John Bolton {Originally posted to the BESA website} Something unprecedented happened last month. A National Security Advisor, Ambassador John R. Bolton, was forced out by a cabal of TV commentators and foes of Bolton and President Donald Trump. Perhaps for the first time, the departing NSA then publicly repudiated the president for […]

Photo Credit: Chris McAndrew via Wikimedia MP Ruth Smeeth The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), which has been affiliated with the Labour party since 1920, announced on Thursday that it would not campaign nationwide for a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government. JLM issued a statement saying: “The last four years have been catastrophic for Jews in the […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dating Coach, I grew up out-of-town in a warm community where my family has always had great friends. Now that I am ready to date, I am really interested in the daughter of one of my parents’ friends. Over time I’ve noticed how kind she is and how smart she […]

Photo Credit: Yedidiya Harush/TPS Working in the tomatoes hot house in Halutza. Oct. 6, 2014 Israel will showcase its agricultural innovation at the 2020 World Expo in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city of Dubai, reflecting the warming relations between the Jewish state and Gulf Arab states. Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz on Wednesday met […]