Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Screenshot Netanyahu and Merkel {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} A decision by the World Jewish Congress (WJC) to honor German Chancellor Angela Merkel with its prestigious Theodor Herzl Award for Zionism has sparked anger and bewilderment among Jewish leaders in the United States and Europe. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Then Chief of Staff Benny Gantz with MK Avigdor Liberman, March 05, 2012. Monday night, President Reuven Rivlin announced that he had received a message from PM Benjamin Netanyahu that he was returning his mandate to the president because he could not form a government. In accordance with the provisions of Basic […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Naumi / Flash 90 Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz is the chairman of the Beis Din Tzedek (Rabbinical Court) of Bnei Brak. Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz passed away early Tuesday after a long struggle with illness. The funeral was set to take place later in the day in B’nei Brak. Rabbi […]

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Photo Credit: Al Jazeera/Wikimedia Commons {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Dozens of Palestinians have been “disappearing” in Saudi Arabia in recent months and are believed are being held in detention in the kingdom’s prisons, according to Palestinian sources and international human rights organizations. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: […]

Photo Credit: Remy Steinegger via Wikimedia Yasser Arafat with ‘beautiful decoration’ Shimon Peres “Until 1967, Israel did not hold an inch of the Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Gaza Strip or Golan Heights…Year after year Israel called for …peace. The answer was a blank refusal and more war”-Yitzhak Rabin, 1976 The most righteous of men cannot […]

Throughout the week of Sukkos we are instructed to offer a total of 70 bulls in the Temple, but on Shmini Atzeres we offer only one (Sukkah, chap. 5, “Hachalil”, pg. 55b; Rebbi Elazar). The Midrash (Tanchuma, Pinchas 15) offers the following parable: There was once a king who made lavish banquets for all his […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 {Written by Adina Shmidman and originally posted to the JNS website} The essence of Simchat Torah is the completion of the reading of the Torah scroll, and the joy and celebration that naturally ensues from the annual culmination of the Torah-reading cycle. Because of the traditional means of […]