Chanukah, 2011
IJN Editorial StaffDec 15, 2011
We shall light the lights of freedom amidst awareness of a growing darkness. We recall and celebrate the right to be observant Jews the agenda of the ancient...
Are the Palestinians an invented people? Yes and no
IJN Editorial StaffDec 15, 2011
Congratulations to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gilngrich for raising the question: Are the Palestinians an invented people? If the term Palestinian is...
US ambassador to Belgium blames Jews for anti-Semitism
IJN Editorial StaffDec 08, 2011
The routine is only too familiar. Say what you said. Then deny it. Or say your were misquoted. Or say you were misinterpreted. The American ambassador to Belgium,...
1941: asleep over Japan; 2011: deluded over Iran
IJN Editorial StaffDec 08, 2011
The most wicked surprise in American history came Dec. 7, 1941, when Japan launched its attack on Pearl Harbor. Before the day that will live in infamy,...
Minding your own business
IJN Editorial StaffDec 01, 2011
Not so long ago, the way to protect ones privacy was to lock the front door and draw the shades. Thats all there was to it. All that has changed, […]
Two-state solution? It’s been offered on a silver platter for 64 years
IJN Editorial StaffDec 01, 2011
Last Tuesday was November 29, 2011. Sixty-four years earlier, the UN voted to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. The Jews said yes. The...
Israeli designers attract world attention
IJN Editorial StaffNov 24, 2011
Creativity is not taking a timid back seat to terror in the Jewish state. Forget army fatigues and utilitarian kibbutz attire. Homegrown Israeli designers are scaling...
Coaches, priests, rabbis, youth directors: Context to the Penn State scandal
IJN Editorial StaffNov 24, 2011
The scandal at what was until recently the nations most successful and squeaky-clean football program is far bigger than a football story. Plug in different titles...
Turkey, memories, and giving thanks
IJN Editorial StaffNov 17, 2011
Thanksgivings of long ago were tinged with snow or sweat, depending on where you grew up. Regardless of the weather conditions, the internal thermometer was very...
Israel bans Palestinians on West Bank Israeli buses
IJN Editorial StaffNov 17, 2011
Sounds so credible, so beautiful, so open-and-shut, so obvious, so compelling: Six Palestinians said, We are like them, exactly like them. The we are the six...