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Gratitude

As Thanksgiving approached this year, I wondered how I would be able to feel a sense of gratitude, and hominess, when our brothers and sisters are being held hostage in...

‘We’re still here’

The premiere of “Kesher: The West Side Jewish Connection” could not have come at a better time.

Questions

In no particular order, here are some of the questions that have been running through my mind over the last month as I read the coverage of the Hamas invasion of Israel...

Open letter to the Denver Post

What I am seeing in the Denver Post, four weeks into this conflict, is a significant editorial bias, namely, privileging the Palestinian story over the Israel and the...

In a place where there are no men…

As I look at the world around me, disgusted — but, sadly, maybe not shocked — by the outpouring of anti-Semitism, I am also comforted. 

‘I know how you are feeling’

On my laptop, I have four or five documents filled with notes about the horrific Hamas attack and its aftermath. Newspapers are filled with scribbled thoughts I’ve...

Pray for the hostages

Several weeks ago, I shared with you a friendship I have developed with a family in Israel who are related to my great-aunt’s husband.

National Newspaper Week

This week, the Intermountain Jewish News joins our colleagues from across the country, in news media big and small, local and national, print and digital, in marking...

The decrepitude bias

Discussion around age is all the rage these days when it comes to politicians. Both leading candidates for president are geriatrics, and should be making way for a new...

Kever Avot like no other

In cemeteries sensations of peace, sadness and connection comingle, imbued with a sense of other worldliness.