Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Pixabay / karosieben (illustrative) Substance abuse is a growing epidemic that doesn’t discriminate based on religion, economic class, gender, or ethnicity. Experts will all tell you that drug and alcohol addiction are not about the substance, but rather about what pain the users are trying to escape, what hole in their hearts they […]

Photo Credit: TPS Car damaged by Gaza rocket on Sderot, Nov. 2, 2019. At the end of a tense Friday and Saturday during which more than 11 rockets were fired at Israeli civilian settlements near the Gaza Strip, Israel’s security apparatus is preparing for renewed rocket fire, possibly with an extended range of the launches […]

Photo Credit: pixabay {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Facing growing discontent from their people, the leaders of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have resumed their crackdown on Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In the past few weeks, several journalists were arrested by PA and Hamas security forces. Advertisement […]

Photo Credit: Yaffa Ganz  This World There was a song in the fifties that began “They’re rioting in Africa, they’re dying in Spain… and Texas needs rain!” It described the world’s woes in a long series of verses. With a few name changes, we can sing the same song today. They’re rioting in Singapore and […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont speaking at J Street National Conference in Washington, D.C. {Originally posted to the author’s website} When it was founded some ten years ago, J Street claimed to be a “pro-Israel and pro-peace” organization. That was taken to mean partnering with the mainstream Israeli political left to build […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Do you wonder what’s a normal worry and what’s too much? Parents always want to help their children, but how can they help them if they are not sure that anything is wrong? Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Dr. Ronald […]

Photo Credit: Miriam Alster / Flash 90 Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz speaks at a rally marking 24 years since the assassination of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Avivs Rabin Square on November 2, 2019, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 during a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv. […]

Photo Credit: Noam Chen / Yad Vashem Avenue of The Righteous Among the Nations This Sunday two Holocaust survivors from Israel Yossi Mor (previously Yosef Mordechai) and his sister Sarah Yanai are being reunited with their wartime rescuer, Melpomeni Dina (née Gianopoulou) from Greece, in an event hosted by the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Naftali Bennett, May 9, 2019. Both Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu (Likud) and MK Benny Gantz (Blue&White) are reportedly courting MK Naftali Bennett (New Right), or at least spinning it as if they are. Gantz may see Bennett as key to breaking up Netanyahu’s seemingly unbreakable right-wing bloc. Netanyahu, who has a […]