IJN Editorial Staff
Does a ‘two-state solution’ include a Jewish state?
IJN Editorial StaffApr 30, 2009
Maybe this is stretching it a bit, but 128 years of dispute seem finally to be joined. Yes, 128 years. The modern settlement in Israel is dated to 1881, when […]
You hate it or you love it
IJN Editorial StaffApr 30, 2009
Depending on what youre hunting for, shopping can be fun, mundane, or depressing. Finding that perfect new dress for your daughters Bat Mitzvah flings open the doors...
Welcome, President Roosevelt, to the dedication of the Illinois Holocaust museum
IJN Editorial StaffApr 23, 2009
Illinois is to be congratulated for putting front and center the task of Holocaust remembrance. All of us sense the diminishing numbers of Holocaust survivors. All of us...
How many helicopters does Ahmadinejad need to send?
IJN Editorial StaffApr 23, 2009
You would think that the world is united against the genocidal intent of Iran and its accompanying nuclear program. Of the latest outburst by Irans president in Geneva...
‘Man on Wire’
IJN Editorial StaffApr 15, 2009
Man on Wire, the award-wining documentary about Philippe Petits 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers, is thrilling, viscerally uncomfortable...
Piracy today. . .terrorism today. . .no difference
IJN Editorial StaffApr 15, 2009
The modern day pirates who prowl the seas off Somalia have little if anything in common with such fictional stereotypes as Long John Silver or Jack Sparrow. These...
‘Radical Islam’
IJN Editorial StaffApr 08, 2009
President Obama said in Turkey that the US is not at war with Islam. We assume he means something different, but he needs to put it plainly. We assume he […]
Faye Schayer, 1915-2009
IJN Editorial StaffApr 08, 2009
A gentle woman full of spunk and intellectual curiosity from a different era. Faye Schayer enlivened our community with her avid interest in its history, leading her...
Kudos: Four special people who bring freedom into our lives
IJN Editorial StaffApr 02, 2009
John Temple If one needed a theological lesson that nothing lasts forever except G-d, one might say that the Rocky Mountain News, under the leadership of John Temple,...
Ward Churchill goofed on only five notes — really, so what?
IJN Editorial StaffMar 27, 2009
It is now clear: Prof. Ward Churchill falsified only five footnotes out of 4,000 pages of scholarship. Why is he being hounded? Why was he fired? The vast percentage...
