Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Marcello Casal Jr./Abr via Wikimedia King Abdullah II House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior Congressional Democrats – Foreign Affairs committee chairman Eliot Engel, Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson, Intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff and Representative Mac Thornberry – as well as Mac Thornberry, the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, […]

Photo Credit: Shlomo Matityahu/TPS The winner (4L) of the 2019 Bible Marathon at the finishing point in the ancient Shilo. Oct 18, 2019. Some 4,000 contestants from Israel and around the world participated in the 5th Annual International Bible Marathon that ended at the ancient site of Tel Shiloh, at which the Tabernacle resided for […]

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Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Clashes break out between protesters in police in Beirut streets Following three days of protest marches and riots in Beirut, Tripoli and several other cities in Lebanon, Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian party Lebanese Forces—the Phalange militia formed in the 1976 Lebanese Civil War and collaborated with Israel during the […]

Photo Credit: Wiki commons I knew the Kol Nidre crowd at the Beverly Hills Hotel was probably expecting me to talk about big issues. Since I deal with such issues all week long, I could have spoken about the alarming rise in anti-Semitism, the complicated relationship with Israel, the challenge of Jewish continuity, the need […]

Photo Credit: Yossi Zamir / Flash 90 Highway approaching Eilat. The Arava Valley along the Jordanian border stretches 180 km from Eilat in the south to the tip of the Dead Sea in the north. Israeli security forces arrested seven suspects on Saturday after they crossed into Israeli territory from Jordan. “”This morning, IDF forces […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Screenshot Lebanese protesters Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Beirut and elsewhere around Lebanon this weekend, demanding the resignation of the government after a plan was announced to tax use of the Whatsapp messaging app. Protests were seen in the northern city of Tripoli, the southern city of […]

[embedded content] After 55 years as a member of the UK Labour Party, Liverpool Riverside MP Dame Louise Ellman has resigned from the party. [embedded content] Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Ellman, 73, tendered her resignation this past Wednesday in a letter, writing that […]

Photo Credit: Hana Levi Julian / JewishPress.com Israeli jewelry designer Michal Negrin also produces many other types of gifts Famed Israeli jewelry and fashion designer Michal Negrin is closing her worldwide business due to “financial difficulties,” the Hebrew-language 0404 military website reported Saturday night. Negrin notified the company’s 120 employees that she had to “give […]