Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It’s a well-known cliché that Jerusalem is “holy to the three main religions.” Where did this cliché come from? The answer is simple: The city was holy to the Jews, and so it was inevitable that the rest of the world would ultimately jump on the bandwagon. It’s hardly the only […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press A rule of life is that everything the left touches it ruins: art, music, Christianity, Judaism, race relations, male-female relations, universities, high schools, elementary schools, late-night comedy, sports, liberty, journalism, the Boy Scouts, national economies, language, and everything else it influences. The left, not liberalism. (I have written a column and done […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press As we breathe a sigh of hopeful relief that our prayers were heard during the Yamim Noraim, we now focus our attention to getting ready for Sukkot. After we inspect an etrog to purchase, some of us will take the etrog and place it in a sturdy box so it can […]

Photo Credit: Rabbi YY Rubinstein Rabbi YY Rubinstein I grabbed an Uber after I flew back to New York a few weeks ago. I like being able to simply take out my cell phone and summon an Uber or a Lyft; it’s so unlike the usual ordeal of getting into a yellow cab at JFK. […]