Opinion
Your Rosh Hashana greeting in the IJN
Rocky Mountain JewAug 16, 2018
Wish your friends and family a Happy New Year, with your own personal message in the IJN’s special Rosh Hashanah edition published September 7, 2018 before the...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #16
Hillel GoldbergAug 16, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #16, “Limited marital relations” Some...
Dear Mr. Lauder
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 16, 2018
This past Monday, The New York Times ran an opinion piece penned by the honorable Mr. Ronald Lauder, chairman of World Jewish Congress. Mr. Lauder is known for his...
Benefit of the doubt
Shana GoldbergAug 16, 2018
Upon visiting Mount Rushmore in 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: “I think that we can perhaps meditate a little on those Americans 10,000 years from...
Tourism in Turkey…yeah, right
IJN Editorial StaffAug 16, 2018
On the nuts-and-bolts level, we’ll leave it to the economists to sort out the causes and solutions to Turkey’s currency crisis. There is no doubt, however, that on...
When a minority cannot be a racist
IJN Editorial StaffAug 16, 2018
When a minority cannot be a racist, what happens when the minority becomes the majority? Allegedly derived from former presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders, the...
Mining Jews
Shana GoldbergAug 09, 2018
What is it about mining towns and Jews? Us Coloradans know that mining drew a lot of Jewish people to our state — though not all, of course, were miners. My...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #15b
Hillel GoldbergAug 09, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #15, “Limited Business” The list of 48 ways...
Honorary grandfather of Colorado sports
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 09, 2018
Looking back, like into the frame of a photo from long ago, I wish I had noticed what Jerry Mellman was like in the moments he was photographing sports players in...
British Board of Deputies off base on anti-Semitism
IJN Editorial StaffAug 09, 2018
We confess up front that we are at a distance from British Jewry and cannot fully grasp the Jewish community’s angst over the Labour Party’s attitude toward...
