Editorials
Dear President-elect Biden: It’s not 2016
IJN Editorial StaffNov 26, 2020
Israelis and Arabs, yarmulkes and kafiyyahs, Hebrew and Arabic, Jews and Muslims, can get along just fine. Palestinians, take note. President-elect Biden, take note....
Dear President Trump: You lost — move on
IJN Editorial StaffNov 26, 2020
Step Two. President Donald Trump has now authorized the GSA to provide the cooperation and the funds to the Biden team to effectuate the transition of power, from one...
If this is remembrance, we prefer amnesia
IJN Editorial StaffNov 19, 2020
CNN anchor disfigures the Holocaust Holocaust survivors wondered whether the Holocaust would be remembered after their deaths. Historians always regard accurate...
Pandemic or not, we welcome Thanksgiving
IJN Editorial StaffNov 19, 2020
For many of us, Purim was the last time we shared a holiday meal with those outside of our immediate families. For some of us, it goes back even further, to last...
Bernice Zussman, 1926-2020
IJN StaffNov 19, 2020
There is a very select number of women who somehow emerge as matriarchs in our community. No one elects them; they themselves do not hold themselves out in this way. It...
Welcome President Biden
IJN Editorial StaffNov 12, 2020
Congratulations on your election, President Joe Biden. Barring some unlikely, drastic alteration in the vote totals once the states officially certify their results, the...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 1948-2020
IJN Editorial StaffNov 12, 2020
Count us among the countless other admirers, readers, publishers and mourners of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who died of cancer last Shabbat, Nov. 7, 2020. The Intermountain...
Big losers in 2020: pollsters
IJN Editorial StaffNov 12, 2020
Maybe it’s built-in bias, such as the way pollsters’ questions are phrased. Maybe it’s the new technology, such as universal caller ID, i.e., the self-selecting...
Fanny Starr, 1922-2020
IJN Editorial StaffNov 05, 2020
When the Intermountain Jewish News interviewed Fanny Starr six years ago, we asked her why she was putting forth so much effort to tell the story of her Holocaust...
‘Democracy is dead’ — What? Not with this turnout!
IJN Editorial StaffNov 05, 2020
It’s not only the Biden voters or the Trump voters. It’s not just the presidential race. It’s not just the Senate and Congressional races. From state to state,...
