IJN Editorial Staff
A hope and a prayer: Israel learned the lessons of 2010’s flotilla
IJN Editorial StaffJun 23, 2011
It remains unclear exactly what form a new anti-Israeli flotilla will take reports vary widely as to the size of the flotilla, its port of origin, its cargo and...
Torching mosques: Not a civic, Jewish, Israeli or Zionist value
IJN Editorial StaffJun 16, 2011
It is disheartening to need to state the obvious: Torching a mosque is not a civic, Jewish, Israeli or Zionist value. A mosque was torched in the Maghayer village near...
More on scumbagness
IJN Editorial StaffJun 16, 2011
Well, here we are again. If we are to believe the Denver Post and various other media outlets, we have a true, live, genuine scumbag of our own right here […]
What Arab Spring? A review of Arab countries finds dictators still in place
IJN Editorial StaffJun 16, 2011
Supposedly, a wave of desire for democracy is sweeping the Arab world. Dictatorships are overthrown and the popular will is taking their place. Really? Yes, to an...
Scumbagness
IJN Editorial StaffJun 10, 2011
In todays world, many forms of discrimination, be they racial, sexist or religious, still exist in various degrees, whether they are illegal or not. One area of life,...
Bel Kaufman
IJN Editorial StaffJun 10, 2011
First of all, relax. Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Down Staircase, that 1965 bestseller about being a new teacher at a New York public school, is very much alive....
A significant milestone: the Mountain States ADL at 70
IJN Editorial StaffJun 10, 2011
Anti-defamation, if you think about it, is not the most facile formulation. But some things stick. Like (pardon the pun) Scotch Tape. Or Kleenex. Or Xerox copies....
Shavuot
IJN Editorial StaffJun 02, 2011
If the idea of studying Torah at midnight, not to mention at 3 a.m., seems far out, count our sleepy eyes as evidence of sympathy. Yet, what could be more […]
The PA seeks a state unilaterally not because negotiations failed, but because they succeeded
IJN Editorial StaffJun 02, 2011
The Palestinian Authority is going to the UN to seek statehood not because Israel would not negotiate, but because it would. The PA does not fear the absence of...
Leniency for Yigal Amir
IJN Editorial StaffJun 02, 2011
For the life of us, we cannot understand the penchant of the High Court in Israel (its Supreme Court) to extend leniency to Yigal Amir. Amir was convicted of murdering...
