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As a child suffers…

Heartbreakingly, many of us have heard of the tragic plight of the  little boy from Texas, Rephael Elisha Meir ben Devora Cohen. Aside from the fact that many of us...

No nuance from American Studies Association

The American Studies Assn. (ASA) has officially joined the BDS movement — Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions — against Israel. ASA has heeded the Palestinian call,...

Nelson Mandela was complex

Everywhere I look there’s another article about the passing of Nelson Mandela. Most articles laud him, a few villify him. And any criticism of his legacy is being...

Menorah is lit, history is made

When I was growing up, the IJN office was literally down the block from the State Capitol, so I have been there many times. Now the IJN is still just […]

A knock-out postcard

I am as horrified as the rest of you by this sick Knockout “game.” The idea of violence being a fun thing is simply anathema and offensive to our humanity. The...

We are the candles

Chanukah has an enduring popularity, symbolized by the candle flames. On Shabbat, when the kindling of fire is a desecration of the day, the symbol epitomizing the...

Cranberries

Just as your autumn stash of pounds and pounds of apple baskets filled with large blushing round crisp apples you personally picked, is waning, the season for those...

Divorce

Many of us have read a story this week in the New York Post, a sad divorce story written by an Orthodox Jewish young woman named Gital, whose predicament of […]

What a conference!

The older we get, the more cynicism grows. Talking about future dreams and coming together in a room with hundreds of people, sensing a palpable idealism, this is the...

An evening with Rabbi Avi

In my generation, the hero, the legend of our childhood was Natan Sharansky. Back then, before he got out of a Russian prison, he was known as Anatoly Sharansky. I...