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As it is, Holocaust remembrance is doomed

FULL disclosure: • There is virtually no time when I am not in the middle of reading a book about the Holocaust, whether a history or a memoir by a […]

The search for peace on Mount Zion

As we sat with our friends on the rooftop of their apartment building, a glorious display of fireworks exploded over our heads in the Jerusalem night sky. In the streets...

As a Bostonian

SUNDAY evening through Monday was Israel’s Yom Hazikaron, “Memorial Day.” I was already steeped in the intense spirit of this very Israeli experience. It’s hard to...

Barry Curtiss-Lusher, national chair of the ADL

TO the best of my memory, Denver Jewry has produced three heads of major national Jewish organizations: Bob Loup, head of UJA; Sheldon K. Beren, head of Torah Umesorah;...

YU honors Jimmy Carter . . . what?

GROWING up in Jerusalem, I remember well the drama of Israel’s relinquishing the Sinai Peninsula as part of the Camp David Peace Accords brokered by former President...

Ten lessons of the Holocaust

Monday, Jews around the world observed Holocaust Day. This day ought to be universally observed because the lessons of the Holocaust are universal. Here are some of...

‘Top 50 Rabbis’ list is inappropriate

KUDOS to the Jewish Journal (Los Angeles) and writer Danielle Berrin for a fair and balanced article about Newsweek magazine’s “America’s Top 50 Rabbis” list. Given...

Mimouna memories

I was a little girl at the time. I have fond memories, albeit not the clearest ones, of the conclusion of Pesach. It was Jerusalem. We lived in a tiny […]

The more things change . . .

Change a couple of names, and nothing has changed in 76 years. Preparing for the IJN’s 100th anniversary keepsake magazine (due out June 24, 2013), I ran across a front...

What’s mine, what’s yours

IT is customary to travel from the holiday of Passover to the holiday of Shavuot with the companion of Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers.” Each Sabbath afternoon one...