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Kudos: Four free Jews who personify Passover

Thursday, 21 March 2013 03:27 IJN Editorial Staff
Kudos: Four free Jews who personify Passover

PASSOVER EDITION 
SECTION C PAGE 24

Every year the IJN salutes people — known or obscure — who bring freedom into our lives. It is alway time to say ‘thank you,’ but Passover, with its eternal message of gratitude to G-d for our freedom, seems an especially appropriate moment.

Lottie Soble: Heimish

There are some people that are easy to love. It’s as if they carry something eternally warm in their hearts. Lottie Soble is one of those people. Quiet, gracious, modest and rarely without a smile, Lottie effortlessly removes the chill that settles in our own hearts. Even if she’s never met you before, you leave her like a dear friend — and hope you’ll see each other again soon.

Contemporaries of Lottie who grew up with her on the West Side vividly remember her parents Velvel and Raizel Heller calling out “Chana Zlata!” when it was time for  their little girl to come home. Somehow Lottie brings the West Side alive — the memories, dreams, aromas, traditions.

Last Updated ( Friday, 22 March 2013 02:55 )

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Some dawns are golden, others are blood red

Thursday, 14 March 2013 00:28 IJN Editorial Staff
They laughed at the Nazis, too.? It behooves everyone inside Greece and elsewhere to see the ‘Golden Dawn’ for what it is: a frightening, growing, Nazi-like movement. The neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, virtually unknown when it appeared in Greece’s political sphere three years ago, uses powerful propaganda tactics — just like the Nazis they emulate. Nikos Michaloliakos, the 55-year-old leader, surrounds himself with bodyguards dressed in black T-shirts and combat fatigues. According to...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 March 2013 09:55 )

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Insanity plea is often just an excuse

Thursday, 14 March 2013 00:26 IJN Editorial Staff
So, is there really no such thing as evil anymore? Are all the despicable murders attributable to a mental or emotional deficit beyond the control and responsibility of the perpetrator? On the first anniversary of Mohammed Merah’s killing spree at the Jewish school in Toulouse, France, a spree that claimed the  lives of a student, a principal and his two children, as well as those of three French soldiers, a newly released film implies that Merah’s actions may have been the result of his d...

Last Updated ( Friday, 15 March 2013 08:07 )

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Death saves Hugo Chavez from worse

Thursday, 07 March 2013 01:38 IJN Editorial Staff
One shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. So the saying goes. But, regrettably, there are exceptions. Hitler comes to mind. So does Stalin, Pol Pot and a host of other powerful haters who — for reasons ranging from madness to racism to political extremism — missed no opportunity to act on their hate. Hugo Chavez, who joined the ranks of the dead this week, never attained the pedestal reserved for the aforementioned, but his words and deeds showed that he aspired to those dubious heights....

Last Updated ( Thursday, 07 March 2013 10:41 )

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Joan Rivers — more than enough said

Thursday, 07 March 2013 01:33 IJN Editorial Staff
Read on, and wonder. How could anyone, let alone anyone Jewish, let alone anybody with even a superficial knowledge of the Holocaust, comment on a dress worn by a German model and then say: “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens.” Then, the person who said this, Joan Rivers, on TV Feb. 25, laughed. Rightly, the ADL called this “vulgar” and “offensive” and “hideous.” To which we might add: unbelievable. Six million dead, the ghast...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 07 March 2013 01:35 )

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