Author: David Rutman

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 […]

Photo Credit: Neta / Wikimedia Malha Mall in Jerusalem, 2007 Residents of Jerusalem living near the Malha Mall were dismayed to learn of plans to develop the area into a major municipal and commercial area that will soon triple the size of the current Jerusalem Malha Mall. The mall, built in 1993 and operated by […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Hof Ashkelon Region Security Impact of a rocket in an agricultural field in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council district launched from Gaza on Wednesday afternoon, September 11 2019. One rocket landed in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council district near the Gaza border, according to Israel’s Channel 13 television news, […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Talmud (Sanhedrin 108a) quotes R’ Yochanan: Come and see how detrimental robbery is. The people of the Generation of the Flood violated all of the Noahide Laws, but their punishment was not sealed until they stole, as the Torah says (Bereishis 6:13), “For the earth is filled with robbery through […]