Opinion
‘Shut down the virus’
Shana GoldbergOct 29, 2020
Last Friday, Joe Biden stated that he is “going to shut down the virus.” Good luck. If he succeeds, he’ll be in the company of only one other country: China. Has...
Whose dogma?
Hillel GoldbergOct 29, 2020
“Even paranoids have enemies,” former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is supposed to have quipped. Does being religious in America today automatically earn one...
Death records as genealogy tools
Mark FearerOct 29, 2020
My last column was probably the hardest one to write, talking about my nephew’s tragic death. But it morbidly inspired me to address a few death records: obituaries,...
How COVID has changed our Jewish outlook
Amy LedermanOct 29, 2020
The Jewish High Holidays and Sukkot have come and gone this year, unlike any other, and posed new challenges for all of us because of COVID. Yet, COVID also offered new...
The sky is the limit
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 29, 2020
Even though we still see summer leaves, now burnished burgundy and gold, stubbornly clinging, once the first snowfall touches down, once that long, incessantly rainy...
We cannot avert our eyes from the mass persecution of Uighur Muslims
IJN Editorial StaffOct 29, 2020
Turkey looks away. Beheaders look away. Muslims should speak up — so should we. This past week has seen mass protests across the Muslim world against France, after...
Stanton Rosenbaum, 1929-2020
IJN Editorial StaffOct 29, 2020
The passing of Stanton Rosenbaum is not only the loss of a distinguished person and attorney — a person of dignity, integrity and a directness leavened with humor and...
Your COVID behavior: Survey results
Rocky Mountain JewOct 22, 2020
A few weeks ago, we asked you about your COVID behavior. The state seemed to have settled into a “new normal,” with limited social engagements, mask wearing and...
Excessive force
Hillel GoldbergOct 22, 2020
A man was shot dead in downtown Denver by a security officer hired by 9NEWS. As to whether the officer, who has been charged with second degree murder, acted in...
I want to imagine a world…
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 22, 2020
Every year we read the story of Noah, the flood, and the ark. But never in our generation have we read this Torah portion as we ourselves living through what can feel...
