We’ll take Gilad; here, you take Muhammad Atta
IJN Editorial StaffOct 13, 2011
The stunning news that a deal has been struck to restore Gilad Shalits freedom is welcome assurance for the power of prayer, unmitigated ecstasy for his family and...
‘Spring’ in Egypt? More like blackmail
IJN Editorial StaffOct 13, 2011
Somehow, a dual American-Israeli citizen, Ilan Grapel, got into Egypt on false pretenses (lying on his application papers) and was arrested for being a spy. Grapel, a...
70 years since Babi Yar
IJN Editorial StaffOct 06, 2011
Seventy years ago, almost to the day, some 33,000 Jews were murdered in Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev. The Babi Yar numbers are numbing equivalent to ten 9/11s...
Cutting your national nose
IJN Editorial StaffOct 06, 2011
Spring has sprung and the palm trees of Egypt are suddenly sodden, or sick, or something. New freedom in Egypt means cutting your exports of hundreds of thousands of...
‘Even paranoids have enemies’
IJN Editorial StaffOct 06, 2011
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State back in the paranoid Nixon days, once delightfully said (of Nixon, we suppose): Even paranoids have enemies. Yes, they do....
Guns and marijuana don’t mix
IJN Editorial StaffOct 06, 2011
Many are bent out of shape over a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives letter sent to gun sellers. The government wrote to gun sellers that it is...
Pardon me!
IJN Editorial StaffSep 28, 2011
Whether an uncovered sneeze or egregious action is at fault, tis the season to be sorry. Some of us habitually apologize, even in the absence of wrongdoing. Others...
Kudos to Obama and Netanyahu for two phenomenal speeches at the UN
IJN Editorial StaffSep 28, 2011
I. President Obama The cynics will say that President Obamas speech on behalf of Israel at the UN last week was motivated by electoral concerns he got the message...
Prayers for 5772 from the IJN Staff
IJN Editorial StaffSep 22, 2011
AT this time of upheaval in the Middle East, uncertainty in Israel and deepening divisiveness here at home, I pray for understanding, coexistence and peace. I pray that...
The fallacy of a ‘green’ environment
IJN Editorial StaffSep 15, 2011
These are not trick questions: He who recycles extensively is more environmentally responsible than he who does not right? He who drives a car that gets 27 mpg is...