IJN Editorial Staff
Hagel, a disaster for Israel
IJN Editorial StaffFeb 07, 2013
We believe that the average reader of the Intemountain Jewish News knows more about aspects of America’s defense policy than Chuck Hagel, nominated to be American’s...
Bravo to Bulgaria
IJN Editorial StaffFeb 07, 2013
An international pat on the back is owed to Bulgaria, which, in a rare act of European political courage and moral clarity, put the blame for last summer’s bombing of...
Shocking, reprehensible allegations from Israel about coerced contraception for Ethiopian women
IJN Editorial StaffJan 31, 2013
The disturbing news transports us to another time and place — Tuskegee? — but we never, ever, thought that time and place could be now — in Israel. Yet, under...
Yes, Mrs. Clinton, it does, ‘at this time, make a difference’
IJN Editorial StaffJan 31, 2013
According to soon-to-retire Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when four American diplomats are killed in Benghazi, Libya, it does not make a difference how the...
Tu b’Shevat: Rebirth and remembrance
IJN Editorial StaffJan 24, 2013
On the eve of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of Trees, we read the bittersweet story (see page 11 of the Dollars & Sense special section) of the sprouting...
An absurdity in the gun control debate
IJN Editorial StaffJan 24, 2013
Countless opponents of any adjustment whatever in current gun laws say that it is wrong to ban AK-47s and other assault or assaultlike weapons because such weaponry is...
Richard Gould, 1948-2013
IJN Editorial StaffJan 17, 2013
Shall we begin with the fact that rather than smoke dope, flee to Canada, take out a fake divinity school deferment or a fake medical report or hide behind conscientious...
Israel’s election
IJN Editorial StaffJan 17, 2013
On Nov. 6 of last year, even after the polls closed around the nation, Americans were still uncertain whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney had won the US presidential...
Ralph Auerbach, 1932-2013
IJN Editorial StaffJan 10, 2013
It could be said of anyone. If you did not know someone in his prime, you cannot get a picture of him from his old age. Still, in the case […]
Sam Fireman, 1914-2013
IJN Editorial StaffJan 10, 2013
So gentle, so understated, so quietly outreaching, so unruffled, so kind. Who could ever guess that the late Sam Fireman lived through every imaginable hell during the...
