Author: David Rutman

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. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Torah reading on the first two days of Sukkot (Leviticus 22:26-23:44) outlines the festivals that give rhythm and structure to the Jewish year. Examining them carefully, however, we see that Sukkot is unusual and unique. One detail that had a significant influence on Jewish liturgy appears later on, in Deuteronomy […]

[embedded content] According to the NY Times, President Donald Trump’s decision to clear a path for a Turkish invasion of a broad strip of land on the Syrian side of the two countries’ border was made on the spur of the moment, in a phone call with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Overnight, Trump opened […]