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IJN Editorial Staff

Tolerance runs two ways

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’

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

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

“The only thing certain is death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin’s oft-quoted and experientially verified aphorism remains a valid one in 21st-century America. But the...

A sukkah’s dispensation

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

We won’t 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

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

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

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?

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...