Author: David Rutman

Photo Credit: courtesy {Originally posted to The Lid website} Today Sunday 9/23 at sundown, Jews across the world begin the celebration of Sukkot. Sukkot is one of the three most important Jewish festivals (the other two are Passover and Shavuot). I know what some of you are thinking, and the answer is no, Chanukah is […]

Photo Credit: IDF Evacuated Casualties of the Yom Kippur War Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, at the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, cited the main lesson from that war, when the Israeli government and the IDF ignored information about an imminent Arab attack, resulting […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Holocaust Garden of Remembrance being cleaned after that anti-Semitic vandalism Westchester County police on Tuesday, the eve of Yom Kippur, discovered two flyers containing anti-Semitic messages and images glued outside the Holocaust Garden of Remembrance on Martine Avenue, the NY Post reported. The flyers were difficult to remove due to the adhesive […]

Photo Credit: courtesy Rabbi Nataf At the end of this week’s parsha, we see something curious: Although the song of Haazinu is – both before it and after it – thoroughly associated with Moshe, it was not presented to the Jewish people by him alone. Rather we are informed that Yehoshua (here, Hoshea) was also […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel Guerra President Donald J. Trump {Written by Shay Attias and originally posted to the BESA website} Forbes‘s World’s Most Powerful People Index of 2019 Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Unlike Obama during his first term […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot One of Halle’s Yom Kippur shooting lying in the street. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday that anti-Semitism was certainly one of the shooter’s motives, in his attack on a Synagogue in eastern Germany on Yom Kippur. A statement of the obvious? Possibly, except that after having killed one person […]