Intermountain Jewish News
Thursday,
May 17th
Obama, Romney surrogates debate
WASHINGTON — Simmering beneath the presidential season’s familiar refrains of support for Israel is a passionate partisan argument over how best to confront Iran and deal with the new Middle East. The Jewish election debate season was launched i... Read more...Second Amendment does not ban common sense
Even if we concede that the Second Amendment permits individuals, not only militias, to ca...
When art imitates life
NEW YORK — As moviegoers over the weekend flocked to see Marvel’s new superhero ensemb...
Circumcision funding killed
A COMBINATION of fiscal conservatives, health professionals, and “intactivists” (peopl...
Rabbi Gorelik receives outstanding faculty award
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik, director of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado i...The human bricks of the Third Temple
Spiritual guidance EMOR. “Saying.” This week’s Torah portion speaks about “kohan...
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HIAS CEO Gideon Aronoff resigns
Citing personal reasons, Gideon Aronoff, the CEO of HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is resigning....
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Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Hezbollah: Hands off Israel
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander reportedly ordered Hezbollah not to attack Israel....
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Anti-Israel group setting up battle with plans to rejoin Toronto gay pride parade
The activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is planning to return to the gay pride parade in Toronto, setting up another battle with Jewish groups and the city....
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Amid new Iran nuke rumors, Barak and Panetta to meet
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet with his U.S. counterpart, Leon Panetta, in Washington amid reports that Iran may have achieved the capability to build a nuclear bomb....
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Paul winds down campaign but keeps delegates
Ron Paul has effectively given up his presidential campaign but will not yet give up his delegates to Mitt Romney....
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Society of St. Pius bishop blames Jews for antagonism
A bishop for a traditionalist Catholic breakaway group said the relationship between Jews and Christians is a fundamentally antagonistic one....
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Arno Lustiger, historian and Holocaust survivor, dies at 88
Arno Lustiger, a Holocaust survivor and historian who put a spotlight on Jewish resistance against the Nazis, has died....
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Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld oldest to receive British fiction prize
Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld became the oldest person to win the coveted Independent Foreign Fiction Prize....
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