Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The singular nature of Israel as a Jewish state vests certain rights in every Jew. Israel’s Declaration of Independence proclaims that Israel is “open to Jews from all countries of their Diaspora,” and Israel’s Law of Return codifies the natural right of every Jew to be a citizen of Israel. Passed […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot (JNS) New Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom The Boston Red Sox on Monday officially announced the hiring of the Tampa Bay Rays’ senior vice president Chaim Bloom as its new chief baseball officer. Bloom, 36, will be “responsible for all baseball operations matters” for the team. He previously spent 15 […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont speaking at J Street National Conference in Washington, D.C. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Israelis are still trying to sort out the fallout from their second unsuccessful attempt to elect a government this year with little sign of a break in the impasse between Prime Minister […]

Photo Credit: Elbit Systems Elbit’s E-LynX SDR family Elbit Systems on Tuesday announced that following extensive testing by Federal Office for Defense Procurement (Armasuisse) and the Swiss Armed Forces, Elbit was selected by the Swiss Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (“DDPS”) to provide the Swiss Armed Forces with an army-wide tactical Software […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Prof. Mordechai Kedar’s Bombshell Speech at Pro-Netanyahu Rally, Oct. 29, 2019. Bar Ilan University canceled Dr. Mordechai Kedar’s participation in a conference to be held in the United States next week, about 12 hours after Kedar’s stirring speech Tuesday night during a support rally for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Petah […]

Photo Credit: Avraham Shapira Kumi Ori A few weeks ago, The Jewish Press reported that the IDF ordered the temporary expulsion of Neriyah Zaroge, a young married settler, from his home on an isolated hilltop, Kumi Ori, near the settlement of Yitzhar. Since then, the order has become a source of almost daily friction – […]

Photo Credit: screenshot Hizbullah’s Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel in a speech from his hidden bunker on August 23, 2019 {Originally posted to the JCPA website} Observers of the Lebanese political scene have been struck by one significant development. Protests are directed for the first time since the Arab spring in 2011 against Hizbullah and its […]

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Photo Credit: Mark Neiman (GPO) President Rivlin spoke at the Haaretz Judaism, Jewish People and Israel Conference, Oct. 29, 2019 President Rivlin spoke at the Haaretz Judaism, Jewish People and Israel Conference on Wednesday and said “the effort to create Jewish-Hebrew culture is not a matter of the battle between right and left. It is […]