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Pierre Wolfe, escapee, restaurateur, now a novelist
One might think that at the age of 87, after escaping the Holocaust, after seeing much of the world, after a wildly successful career as a chef, restaurateur and radio personality, Pierre Wolfe would have had enough. And one would be wrong. The urb... Read more...The options in Syria will only get worse
Color the scenarios in Syria any way you wish. America’s inaction in Syria has, in part,...
Three decades on, ‘hobby’ is big business
Affair with Flair, the event-planning boutique run by Lisa Cook and Leslie Heins, is now i...Boulder rejects Nablus as sister city [With VIDEO]
The Boulder Nabulus Sister City Project, organized by a group that has spent two years com...Rabbi Leonard Helman (Santa Fe)
RABBI Leonard Helman was a close friend — and a mystery. “The Rabbi Different,” he w...
Jews divided over Samantha Power
WASHINGTON — Samantha Power brings to foreign policy an activist impulse that many in th...Sharansky Wall plan backed by federations
NEW YORK — The Jewish Federations of North America’s board of trustees passed a resolution supporting Natan Sharansky’s proposed compromise on egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.
The Monday, June 3, resolution, according to a JFNA statement, says the compromise “develops a pathway whereby the Kotel will once again become a spiritual center for all Jews and a symbol of unity for the entire Jewish community world-wide.”
Announced in April, the proposal would expand and raise the ar... After 300 repetitive years, things can get boring
SABERS have been rattling in Persia for nearly 3000 years, so this latest Iran flare-up looks boringly repetitive. Jews have spent most of their existence around warring empires — it’s where our “You tried to kill us/We survived/Let’s eat!” holidays all come from — beginning with Pesach, the celebration of our birth as a People, escaping from the Egyptian empire. Jewish visions of a better world (e.g., “Nation will not take up sword against a nation, nor will they train for war an...Google Glass: Bain or boon?
HIGHLAND PARK, NJ — Over the past few weeks, strangers have begun stopping high school computer science teacher Chaim Cohen on the street. A few accuse him of recording them without their knowledge. Even fewer blame him for all of society’s ills.
But many just want an answer to a simple question: Is he wearing Google Glass?
Cohen is among the approximately 2,000 developers throughout the US who are trying out the search giant’s much-hyped wearable computer, a futuristic Internet-connecte... ‘Hannah Arendt’ captures intensity of intellectual combat
LOS ANGELES — Movie mavens may have to come up with a new genre to classify “Hannah Arendt,” the biopic of the German-Jewish philosopher.
New York Times critic A.O. Scott suggests it is an action film — albeit one in which the weapons are ideas and theories are volleyed on a battlefield where a questionable hypothesis can turn lifelong friends into bitter enemies.
Director Margarethe von Trotta, who has dealt previously with complex Jewish women (“Rosa Luxemburg”) and the Nazi era ... To be a Jewish Democrat: IJN exclusive roundtable
A fair warning to all Republicans, conservatives, libertarians and other detractors of the Democratic Party: This is an article exclusively of and about Democrats.The reason for such gross imbalance, however unusual it may seem, should be obvious. As virtually everyone in Colorado already knows, next week the Democratic National Convention will be storming to town, intent on formally nominating its “presumptive” presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, not to mention kicking off the critica... Covenant’s Pomegranate Prize goes to Rabbi Bock
RABBI Eliav Bock, founding director of Ramah Outdoor Adventure at Ramah in the Rockies, is one of five Jewish educators selected to receive The Covenant Foundation’s 2012 Pomegranate Prize.
The prize honors emerging professionals in Jewish educational settings across the country.
In addition to Bock, recipients include Maya Bernstein, strategic design officer at UpStart Bay Area, San Francisco; Rabbi Nicole Greninger, director of education at Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, Calif.; Rabbi Barry Kis... The options in Syria will only get worse
Color the scenarios in Syria any way you wish. America’s inaction in Syria has, in part, facilitated them, and America’s continued inaction will only exacerbate them. Say Assad wins. That is, he retains power in a mini-Syria, with rebels holding other parts of the country. The US will have leverage with neither Assad nor the rebels, who will constitute one more anti-Western and anti-American terrorist breeding ground. Except that this time, it will be adjacent to Israel, heightening the ris...David Alan Valas
David Alan Valas, partner in the Valas family TV store in Denver, passed away June 5, 2013. Rabbis Bernard Gerson, Aaron Finkelstein and Benjy Brackman officiated at the June 7 service at Rodef Shalom.
Interment followed at Mt. Nebo Cemetery. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.
“He will be missed by his large family and numerous friends,” his loved ones said.
Mr. Valas was born Aug. 26, 1950, in Denver. He graduated from George Washington High and earned his MBA from CU.... Get the IJN's free newsletter!
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Happy 90th, Shimon Peres!
For his 90th birthday, Shimon Peres hosted numerous politicians and celebrities and spoke of his life and his vision of peace for the future. ...
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Pet Shop Boys singer defends Israel concert
Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant defended his band’s decision to play Israel amid pressure to cancel the June 23 concert. ...
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Israel’s SodaStream inks deal with KitchenAid
The Israeli company SodaStream has agreed to develop a home system for making carbonated drinks for KitchenAid appliances. ...
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Jakob Dylan pays tribute to ‘The Rolling Stones’ with a cover of “Ruby Tuesday”
Jakob Dylan covers “Ruby Tuesday,” at Stonesfest, a group of performances that honors rock icons like the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty. ...
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In Israel, actress Sharon Stone visits kids with AIDS
Actress Sharon Stone visited the pediatric AIDS unit at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem. ...
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Archie Comics feature film in the works
Warner Brothers, Archie Comics and WME are teaming up to make the first Archie Comics feature film. ...
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Poetry is for warriors
An officer in the IDF stopped a soldier from reading personal poetry on the radio because it would “ruin the image of a combat soldier.” ...
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As protests rock Turkey, Israel watches with ambivalence
The budding protest movement in Turkey against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan raises questions about the future of a government that has downgraded ties with Israel but recently began reconciliat...
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