Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Wikipedia / Shahen Araboghlian / CCASA 4.0I Protests in Beirut. Oct. 19, 2019 Thousands of protesters planned to form a human chain across Lebanon on Sunday as tensions mounted between protesters and security forces, according to an AFP report. The country has been largely shut down as roads are blocked and banks and […]

Photo Credit: Hillel Maeir/TPS Ukrainian flags together with Israeli flags wave in the wind in the Ukraine’s President, Petro Poroshenko, visit the the Knesset. Israel welcomed Ukraine’s decision to open a diplomatic branch of their Tel Aviv Embassy in Jerusalem, the latest country to establish a diplomatic presence in Israel’s capital. The decision was made […]

[embedded content] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated President Donald Trump and the United States on Sunday in response to the announcement of the death of Islamic State (Da’esh) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Netanyahu called it an “impressive […]

Photo Credit: Orli Aloni / Wikipedia Augusta Victoria Compound is a church-hospital complex located on the southern side of Mount of Olives in eastern Jerusalem. A severe crisis in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) medical system and a decision by the PA’s prime minister to boycott Israeli hospitals have put the life of Arab cancer patients […]

Photo Credit: Ayelet Federation on Non-Olympic Sport in Israel Israeli Kickbox Medalists Yulia Sachkov, Danielle Peshayev, Shir Cohen and Or Moshe Israeli kickboxer Yulia Sachkov on Saturday won the gold medal at the Kickboxing World Championships held by the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO) in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and three other Israelis won silver medals, […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot 20 Democratic presidential candidates in the Miami debates, June 26-27, 2019 {Originally posted to the JNS website} Here’s the deal, we are two millennial Jews living in New York City who are deeply concerned about the lack of attention being given to the rise of anti-Semitism. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. People pay their respects at a memorial in front of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh to the 11 Jewish victims of a mass shooting one week earlier, Nov. 4, 2018. {Originally posted to the JNS website} Almost a year since the Oct. 27 […]

Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr /CC2.0 President Donald Trump {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} The effort to find (or create) impeachable offense against President Donald Trump has now moved from the subjects of the Mueller investigation — collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice — to alleged recent political “sins”: “quid pro […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Turkey launches airstrikes on Syrian Kurdish territory {Originally posted to the JCPA website} The withdrawal of American troops ordered by President Donald Trump from Kurdish-held territories in northeastern Syria was no surprise to the Kurds. The Kurds had been expecting this move since mid-summer 2019 and were preparing their options in case […]