Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Torah describes Noach as a “tamim,” a “tzaddik,” and one who “walked with G-d” (“es HaElokim hishalech Noach”). What is a “tzaddik”? Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); This word is used to describe someone who sustains others as well […]

Photo Credit: unsplash Few horror movie fans will forget the moment that the little girl in “Poltergeist II” chillingly says, “They’re back.” I felt that same chill last week listening to Elizabeth Warren unabashedly proclaim, “Everything is on the table” when it comes to getting Israel to support a two-state solution. The nightmare of incessant […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Noach was “perfectly righteous in his generation” and therefore spared from the Great Flood that destroyed most of the world. Why, then, does Yeshaya HaNavi call the flood “the water of Noach (Yeshaya 54:9), which implies that he was somehow responsible for it? The Zohar says the Flood is attributed to […]

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Photo Credit: Moshe Shai / Flash 90 IDF F-35 “Adir” stealth fighter jet in action Operation “Blue Flag” will take to the skies over southern Israel next week. A military aviation exercise held at Ovda Air Force Base by the Israeli Air Force, is a biennial event aimed at expanding international cooperation. ה-“BLUE FLAG” יוצא […]

Photo Credit: #WeWantNaama on Facebook Naama Issachar On Wednesday night, Israel’s Justice Minister Amir Ohana announced he would be extraditing the arrested Russian hacker Alexei Burkov to the US. Burkov is wanted in the US for cyber-crimes, including credit fraud. Russia wants Burkov returned to Russia, and to that end, arrested Israeli-American Naama Issachar during […]

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 […]