Opinion
Quaking in my boots
Hillel GoldbergJun 01, 2023
I am supposed to be quaking in my boots. Not I, Hillel Goldberg, the individual. Not I, a columnist for the Intermountain Jewish News, a specific newspaper. Not I, a...
70 and 30
IJN Editorial StaffJun 01, 2023
One century. That’s the combined contribution of two Denver Jewish day schools — Hillel Academy and Denver Academy of Torah — that recently marked major...
SRO removal: best of plans, worst of plans
Jordan FriedmanJun 01, 2023
It was the best of plans, it was the worst of plans. With apologies to Dickens, this adaptation of his words aptly describes a tumultuous year for the Denver Public...
Not on the criminal record
IJN Editorial StaffJun 01, 2023
A bill being contemplated in New York state that would erase a person’s criminal record after a few years of crime-free life has a major flaw: it only looks at the...
Manhattanhenge
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 01, 2023
Manhattanhenge is a phenomenon when a setting sun is perfectly aligned with Manhattan’s grid-patterned streets, creating a picturesque effect, where the North and...
Is no one ill? Or everyone?
Shana GoldbergJun 01, 2023
In response to a recent study which showed that more than a quarter of adult Americans are depressed, the much-awarded author Joyce Carol Oates sent an ignorant tweet,...
Look how we talk about each other
Hillel GoldbergMay 25, 2023
I have yet to meet my first person who does not say that we live in terribly polarized times, and that something definitely needs to be done. I can count on one hand the...
Naivete with the KGB . . . and with Sasha
Karen GalatzMay 25, 2023
Growing up, I was more New Yorker than Jew. More Las Vegan than landsman. More my father’s daughter than one of the Chosen People. At least that’s what I thought,...
Golden Nuggets
IJN Editorial StaffMay 25, 2023
“I don’t get no respect,” Jewish comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s catch phrase, could have been that of the Denver Nuggets. But as our hometown team, for the first...
Confluence of memory
Shana GoldbergMay 25, 2023
Maybe it was being a young child in Jerusalem, or maybe it’s simply part of Jewish DNA, but I’ve always been fascinated by history.
