Author: David Rutman

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 […]

Photo Credit: Deutsche Welle Screenshot Flowers in front of the Halle kebab shop where one victim of the Yom Kippur terror attack was killed. An estimated 5,000 people attended a memorial concert in Halle on Saturday, 10 days after a German terrorist shot and killed two people and injured two more in a shooting rampage […]

Photo Credit: courtesy of the author Author and Jewish Press writer Tzvi Fishman Parshat Va’Etchanan begins with Moshe begging Hashem to allow him to enter Eretz Yisrael: “I beseech Thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that good mountain and the Lebanon.” Rabbi Sholom Gold of Har […]

Photo Credit: Flash 90 Sbarro Restaurant terror attack. August 9, 2001 The official media mouthpiece of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan reports on Saturday evening on US politicians visiting, and paying generous homage to, King Abdullah II. Related story: Pelosi, Abdullah II, Meet, But King Won’t Attack Trump’s Syria Pullout Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, […]