Kashrut coming to heritage birds from the Kansas prairie
Victor Wishna, JTAJan 21, 2016
LINDSBORG, KAN. — Thousands of birds strutted around like rambunctious kids at recess six varieties of turkey and nearly 40 breeds of chicken, duck and geese. As...
Not just fruit: Tu b’Shevat a chance for personal growth
Edmon J. Rodman, JTAJan 21, 2016
LOS ANGELES — For the last three years, I’ve celebrated Tu bShevat the Jewish New Year of the Trees by organizing a participatory seder in a nearby...
Leonard Kline
IJN StaffJan 21, 2016
Leonard ”Lonnie” Kline, a real estate executive who worked at Jordon Perlmutter and Co., passed away Jan. 2, 2016, in Denver. Rabbi Yaakov Chaitovsky and...
Charlotte Diamond
IJN StaffJan 21, 2016
Charlotte Diamond, a beloved and steadfast member of Denvers Jewish community, passed away Jan. 5, 2016, in Denver. She was 98. Rabbis Joe Black and Steven Foster...
The US is as spineless as Israel
IJN Editorial StaffJan 21, 2016
When you negotiate with terrorists, be they Palestinian or Iranian, the results always come back to bite. “One-time exception.” Yeah, right. Famous last words of...
Letter to national United Methodist Church
IJN Editorial StaffJan 21, 2016
With your divestment from five Israeli banks, you are either ignorant or bumbling or evil. Whichever, you are complicit in evil. You are an accessory to cold-blooded...
Should we read Mein Kampf?
Hillel GoldbergJan 21, 2016
Hitler’s earth-shattering bigotry his rationale for the Holocaust and the death of millions of others was laid out in 1923 in his book, Mein Kampf. It was...
Tale of two heroes
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 21, 2016
hear the news we are all still reeling from — a mother of six children who, despite heroically fighting back, was brutally butchered into submission, all while...
Tu b’Shevat seder [plus recipes]
Rocky Mountain JewJan 21, 2016
Repost from Tu b’Shevat 2011 Back around Rosh Hashana, we blogged about the custom of holding a new year’s seder, a meal comprised of various seasonal fruits and...
