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Pay for slay? Perish the thought

No longer will the Palestinian Authority pay people to kill people — on the books, anyway. “Your honor, I am not guilty of murder. All I did was hire the hit man.”

The next thing you knew . . .

Today, on first day of Nisan, it’s hard to feel the joy of an upcoming redemptive holiday. It feels like this war will never end. Despite the IDF having removed ground...

Darth Vader, Groucho Marx among names in new Haggadahs

The creators of new Passover Haggadahs focused on Zionism and American patriotism were working on their projects long before Oct. 7, when Hamas attacked Israel and...

Tragedy for aid workers, Biden’s double standard for Israel

Any time aid workers in a conflict zone are killed is a tragedy for the victims, for their families and for people of good will everywhere. The number of fatalities...

Whose values?

Mine was one of the 180,000 letters that were written to President Biden last week to mark the 180th day since Oct. 7, the 180th day that innocent people continued to be...

Reney Lorditch

Obituary notice for longtime Evergreen resident Reney Lorditch, published in the Intermountain Jewish News.

Friends and family attend the funeral of 20-year-old paramedic Yarin Peled. Hamas terrorists killed her in the Oct. 7 massacre at Kibbutz Nahal Oz. Oct. 22, 2023. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Nahal Oz residents permitted to return home

The Israel Defense Forces notified residents of Nahal Oz, one of the Gaza-border communities devastated by Hamas’ attack, that they may return to the kibbutz.

Palestinians stand next to a vehicle, where volunteers from the World Central Kitchen, including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to the NGO, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty)

Half year of war: World turns on Israel

In the six months since Hamas invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, shooting, raping, burning, mutilating and kidnapping Israelis, the almost universal horror that...

Shye Fried, photographer, stands aside his display of 35 people he photographed at the Nova Music Festival the morning of Oct. 7, 2023. He spoke April 7, 2024 at Chabad South Metro Denver.

Half year of war: Oct. 7 survivor in Denver

On the six-month anniversary of Hamas’ invasion of Israel, a survivor of the attack recalled in vivid detail the moment on the morning of Oct. 7 when he stared death...

The late Sen. Joe Lieberman in his moment of glory after he was nominated for vice-president on the Democratic ticket in 2000. He and Al Gore lost in a razor-close election to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney that was ultimately resolved by the US Supreme Court. (IJN file photo)

Lieberman retrospective: Wisdom in & out of politics

One of the perks of a career in journalism is meeting people of prominence. And, I like to tell people, one of the downsides of a career in journalism is […]