Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz {Originally posted to the JNS website} This week a legal proceeding is taking place that may have as much if not more to do with the future of Israel’s government as the stalemated negotiations to form a new governing coalition. Lawyers representing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are presenting evidence to […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Dear Dr. Yael, My husband and I enjoy your column and read it every Friday night. Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); I wanted to share an idea about the parsha that ties into psychology. This past week’s parsha was Parshas […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press The Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 18b) states that Yeshaya 55:6 – “Seek Hashem when He may be found, call to Him when He is close” – refers to the Ten Days of Repentance. The Lubavitcher Rebbe explains that “when He may be found” means Hashem becomes available to all Jews during these […]

Photo Credit: Yishai Fleisher (((CLICK BELOW TO HEAR AUDIO))) With no coffee because of the slow-fast-day, Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Rabbi Yishai for post-Rosh HaShana pre-Yom Kippur schmoozing about the “fun” work of repentance and the good side of humanity’s backsliding. Then Malkah Fleisher on her favorite moment of the new year and deep thoughts […]

Photo Credit: Ari Fuld Ari Fuld This is an abridged version of the last D’var Torah that Ari Fuld posted online. The full transcript and video can be found at AriFuld.org. Hey everyone, Ari Fuld here. We’re broadcasting out of the beautiful rolling hills of Judea, Israel, and we have a short, but very exciting […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Every year, on the Shabbat preceding Yom Kippur, we read the prophet Hoshea’s famous words: “Return O Israel until Hashem, your G-d” (Hosea 14:2). Rabbi Shlomo Pappenheim of Breslau (1740-1814) writes that the two-letter root shin-bet – which is the core of the words “shuv,” “shuvah,” and “teshuvah – denotes returning […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press I don’t look back happily at the day I began working with Ryan. Our working relationship was complicated from the start. Ryan promised things, but didn’t deliver. He rarely stuck to schedule, often arriving on the construction site only after numerous coaxing calls. Every step needed extra prodding, begging, and convincing. […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press There’s an old and totally apocryphal story about the nineteenth century French Jewish aristocrat Baron de Rothschild, whose wife was in her bedroom with a nurse, in the last stages of delivery while he was sitting downstairs playing a game of cards with his friends. Suddenly they heard her cry, “Mon […]