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IJN Editorial Staff

Thankfully . . .

Reasons for holiday-weary Jews to love Thanksgiving: No proscribed requirements, just grace before and after eating. No need to wait until after sundown to begin the...

We’re watching Obama’s next move at the UN

There’s hardly as much “noise” surrounding the latest Palestinian gambit at the UN as there was last year. Then, the Palestinian Authority sought admission to the...

Pollard lobby over the top

Listening to the endless special pleading on behalf of Jonathan Pollard, one would think he was an innocent man, wrongly accused, wrongly convicted, wrongly imprisoned....

That subtle whiff of casual anti-Semitism

Sometimes a subtle whiff of anti-Semitism is more troubling than grand online proclamations from an unhinged fringe group. For example, theunjustmedia.com takes the...

Brief rest earned

Last week, we urged you to vote, and vote you did. So, thanks. And now it’s over, all the debates, the rallies, the interviews, the talking heads, the bloviators, the...

And while there was a storm…

Call it a stereotype, if you like. But we have had enough experience visiting, living in, witnessing and passing through New York to know that it is different from the...

Escaping into the world of sports

It’s been a tough few months in the news business, what with the Aurora shooting, the Jessica Ridgeway kidnapping and murder, the Liggett dismemberment, the campaign,...

And while there was an election…

From attack ads to debate grades to outsized expenditures to ceaseless photo ops — not to mention superstorms — we may be excused for total absorption in the...

What, you can’t predict an earthquake?

The next time an 80-year-old man is diagnosed with cancer, blame his pediatrician for not predicting it — and taking the necessary steps. The next time the Rockies are...

Vote!

It is the most obvious of clichés, the truest of truisms, yet we’ll go ahead and say it anyway: Please vote next Tuesday. We’re advocating for neither Barack Obama...