Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: Government Press Office Israeli tanks crossing the desert during the Yom Kippur War. The trauma of the Yom Kippur War still haunts Israel. Eyewitness accounts – both tragic and heroic – fill the media as Yom Kippur approaches. Rabbi Elchanan Ben Nun, rosh yeshiva of Beit Orot, was a 24-year-old IDF reserve soldier […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Warder Cresson (1798-1860) was the first U.S. Consul to Jerusalem. Born to a Quaker family, Cresson in 1840 met Isaac Leeser who alongside Mordecai Manual Noah caused him to develop a keen interest in Judaism and Jewish activities in Palestine. In May 1844, he was commissioned as the first consul of […]

Photo Credit: Ms. Carol Elias, Dr. Ilana Harlev Moshe Lupovici, born 1929, top right. Seventy-eight years ago, on October 9, 1941, an important date in Holocaust history, Romanian dictator, Ion Antonescu, issued his order to forcibly remove the Jews from their homes in Bukovina and Romania. The Nazis and their Romanian allies carried out this […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Naumi / Flash 90 Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz is the chairman of the Beis Din Tzedek (Rabbinical Court) of Bnei Brak. The family of Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Nissim Karelitz, the head of the Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak and a leading rabbinic authority in the Lithuanian Jewish world, has requested the […]

Photo Credit: YouTube Boomerang GIVES: Ari Fuld’s Dream It’s been a year since that terrible day when Zionist fighter and advocate Ariel Fuld z’l was stabbed to death by a Palestinian Authority teen terrorist at the Gush Etzion junction; but his dream of putting together a truck to serve hungry IDF soldiers while they are […]