Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at at Trump’s residence in New York, September 25, 2016. President Donald Trump is planning to abandon the city of his birth when he leaves the White House. Born in Queens and bred in Manhattan, Trump officially changed his primary residence […]

Photo Credit: Iron Maiden YouTube screen grab / LiveRockMusic by Scott Perry Iron Maiden, Live in Concert in Hartford, CT, August 3 2019 Advanced contract negotiations are underway for the Iron Maiden metal band to perform next summer in Israel at Bloomfield Stadium, the home stadium of Hapoel Tel Aviv, Maccabi Tel Aviv and Bnei […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I have been writing this column since, well, I do not remember exactly. Ever since Shimon Golding was kind enough to propose the shidduch between The Jewish Press – the newspaper that I grew up with – and me. Based on the number of columns that I have submitted, I reckon […]

Photo Credit: ISI Israel’s Air Force One. Prime Minister Netanyahu, and eventually, whoever follows after him in the top seat, is getting a shiny, like-new, pre-owned Boeing 767-300ER, nicknamed Air Force One. This will be the first time Israel will have a plane dedicated solely for the use of the Prime Minister. The president of […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press What was Adam missing? After all, he had everything – a female companion, food, a Garden of Eden surrounding him. Last Shabbat at the Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem congregation in Montreal, Canada, I was given an answer. A daughter had just been born to a Bnei Akiva shlichim couple, and Rabbi […]

Photo Credit: Omri Shapira Marking World Sandwich Day on November 3, an Israeli organization that distributes 8,500 sandwiches daily to disadvantaged students throughout the country is calling upon supporters to “Give a Sandwich.” Nevet, founded in 2006 works with more than 151 schools in 46 municipalities around the Israel to identify disadvantaged children and discretely provide 1.3 […]

Photo Credit: screenshot / WPRI 12 TV, Eyewitness News The continuous rise of anti-Semitic incidents has taken world Jewry by surprise. The nations of the world were supposed to know better and Germany said they’re sorry. Yet, try as they do to be loved, Jews continue to be hated more than any other population, regardless […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I recently acquired a first edition of Torat Hayim published in Salonica, Greece. This work records a question sent to the sefer’s author, R. Haim Shabtai, from the Recife community in Brazil. Jews arrived in Brazil along with the area’s very first European settlers while it was under Portuguese rule. The […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 An IDF tank along Gaza’s border. Israeli tanks and aircraft attacked Hamas military posts in Gaza late Thursday night in response to a rocket attack fired from the enclave at southern Israel at around 8:30 pm. One rocket landed in an open area. There was no property damage […]

Photo Credit: LionInZion / Rotter.net Ambulance near Rachel’s Tomb, 2015 Palestinian Authority terrorists hurled two pipe bombs Thursday night at the compound surrounding the Tomb of the Biblical Matriarch Rachel, on the outskirts of southern Jerusalem near Bethlehem, according to Israel’s Channel 13 television news. The bombs exploded in the nearby parking lot, causing damage […]