Columns
Do you remember VCRs?
IJN StaffOct 04, 2012
By Herbert Cohen Ferris Buellers Day Off 1986, directed by John Hughes I remember the meeting well. A teacher discovered a student who had plagiarized a paper and gave...
It’s all in the timing
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 04, 2012
I have always loved the rain. At night, the music of the soothing rhythmic tap tap of the rain it is the loveliest, gentlest lullaby there can be. Even […]
The finest children’s book I’ve ever read
Hillel GoldbergOct 04, 2012
MENDEL Rosenbusch: Tales for Jewish Children, is the finest childrens book Ive ever read. Though it is expensive, I am sending it to each set of parents of my...
Thanksgiving on the train, Sukkot in the heart
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 27, 2012
WHEN I was a college student in New York City, I got a real education, from the experience of meeting new people from different walks of life and riding the […]
Sin and memory: From shul to Babi Yar Park
Hillel GoldbergSep 27, 2012
FROM Shabbos to Sunday, Sept. 22 to 23; from the East Denver Orthodox Synagogue to the Babi Yar memorial; from Rabbi Amsel to Prof. Shneer. Shabbos. Arent sin and...
Are leftists deaf to global hate speech?
Dennis PragerSep 20, 2012
HAVE you noticed that the left regularly condemns alleged conservative hate speech but is almost completely silent on the most pervasive hate speech in the world?...
Yom Kippur, the circle of forgiveness
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 20, 2012
YOM Kippur, the gift of a day that comes to the Jewish people once a year. Every week there is Shabbat, a sacred pause to the week. But once a […]
Bin Laden was not ‘brought to justice’
Hillel GoldbergSep 20, 2012
This is not a political column. Like every other American, I hope the killers of the US ambassador to Libya will be caught, tried, convicted and punished. Likewise, I am...
Heavenly, and then some
Yisroel & Shloime EngelSep 13, 2012
Dear Tzviling, Why is it customary for Rosh Hashanah to make round challos and shape them like a spiraling ladder? Melanie (Denver)
‘The Boxer’ 1997
IJN StaffSep 13, 2012
By Herbert Cohen WHEN I was in junior high school, I met Dolly, a sweet and personable girl. She went to a different school and one day I invited her […]