IJN Editorial Staff
Statue of Hitler, really?
IJN Editorial StaffJan 03, 2013
As much as we might detest the idea, we can visualize a virulent anti-Semite, neo-Nazi or skinhead wanting to erect a statue of Adolf Hitler. We can even stretch our...
Emancipation Proclamation freed. . .whom?
IJN Editorial StaffJan 03, 2013
The Emancipation Proclamation, whose 150th anniversary was this past Tuesday, January 1, 2013, recalls the youth of some of our older readers: that momentous day, 50...
The not-so-cool war
IJN Editorial StaffDec 27, 2012
Who said the Cold War is over? With the break up of the Soviet Union came some freedom of movement for those who wanted to leave the borders of the […]
UN to Israel: Give up the Golan Heights
IJN Editorial StaffDec 27, 2012
Israel’s most consistently peaceful border since 1967 has been its border with Syria — because Israel holds the Golan Heights. Israel has removed the Syria...
Gun control is a worthy, effective public policy, not a religion
IJN Editorial StaffDec 27, 2012
We’ll keep our worship directed to G-d, thank you, and our veneration limited to the Torah. Guns do not qualify as objects of reverence, faith or belief. The Second...
Sen. Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012
IJN Editorial StaffDec 20, 2012
When Israel and the Jewish people lose a friend in the US congress due to the political process, it is unfortunate, but when such a friend is lost to death, […]
The creeping de-biblicization of society
IJN Editorial StaffDec 20, 2012
It would be comforting, perhaps even hopeful, if it were really true that in order to fix the problem of mass shootings in this country, all we needed to do […]
The cliff
IJN Editorial StaffDec 20, 2012
We’re a newspaper, obliged to create a product every seven days, like clockwork. So we know what a deadline is. We’ve been to Jerusalem – to Jewish and Arab...
A logical, thoughtful start to immigration reform
IJN Editorial StaffDec 12, 2012
Last Sunday, during a press conference to announce the immigration reform initiative called the Colorado Compact, American Jewish Committee President Donald Yale...
A ‘continguous’ Palestinian state: that is, a racist one
IJN Editorial StaffDec 12, 2012
Maybe it’s a good idea, maybe it’s a bad idea, for Israel to build new housing in “E1,” an area between currently settled parts of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem...
