Tolerance runs two ways
IJN Editorial StaffOct 07, 2010
Pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, was disinvited by the Denver Jewish community, or at least by part of it, from being the featured speaker at...
Obama to PA: Israel is the ‘Jewish homeland’
IJN Editorial StaffOct 03, 2010
President Barack Obama could have saved himself a ton of grief in the pro-Israel community had he uttered the single sentence at the beginning of his term that he...
J Street
IJN Editorial StaffOct 03, 2010
It is incredible in this day and age that any political lobby, whatever its legal status, thinks it can be respected without being fully transparent. Yet, this is just...
Death and (e)taxes
IJN Editorial StaffOct 03, 2010
The only thing certain is death and taxes. Benjamin Franklins oft-quoted and experientially verified aphorism remains a valid one in 21st-century America. But the...
A sukkah’s dispensation
IJN Editorial StaffSep 26, 2010
What is more significant, a fine deed or its supposed meaning? Take the giving of charity. It is deemed by Judaism to be of supreme importance. It saves lives. It...
Finally, American Muslims take off the wraps
IJN Editorial StaffSep 26, 2010
We wont go so far as to say that a recent response by a coalition of American Muslim organizations can redeem the tone-deaf, insensitive, extremely poorly thought out...
The Allied Jewish
IJN Editorial StaffSep 26, 2010
The Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado, as the name implies, is Jewish. Accordingly, the vast majority of its fundraising targets and the charities it supports are...
Spears into pruning hooks: a basis for Yom Kippur hopes
IJN Editorial StaffSep 16, 2010
When one nuclear weapon can destroy a country, it does seem ludicrous to stockpile hundreds and thousands of such weapons. Equally, it seems ludicrous to make an issue...
Leadership missing at the top; angst throughout the land
IJN Editorial StaffSep 16, 2010
An update on the 1972 it took a Nixon to go to China trope in diplomacy: it takes a war on terrorism to keep the peace at home. President George […]
Will Abbas scuttle the peace process?
IJN Editorial StaffSep 16, 2010
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed an unprecedented partial freeze on Israeli settlements nearly 10 months ago in order to serve as an impetus to bring the...