Editorials
Perpetual memory
IJN Editorial StaffOct 31, 2013
In the November issue of Vanity Fair, writer James Wolcott turns his facile pen to the tidal wave of books marking the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination....
Making enemies of friends
IJN Editorial StaffOct 31, 2013
The administration’s foreign policy is alienating American friends on three continents Saudi Arabia The US has sold billions of dollars of sophisticated weaponry to...
Israel’s education minister has lost it
IJN Editorial StaffOct 24, 2013
We rubbed our eyes and wondered whether we were reading correctly when we saw a small JTA release that opened: “Holocaust education will begin in Israel as early as...
IsraAid
IJN Editorial StaffOct 24, 2013
In this week’s newspaper, one story caught our eye for its humanitarian — not to mention ironic — nature. The Israeli aid organization IsraAid has provided almost...
Top 10 list of…what?
IJN Editorial StaffOct 24, 2013
People from TV personalities to Mr. or Ms. Joe Average have their Top 10 lists of best movies, best jokes, best songs, best cities to live in, best places to […]
JEWISHcolorado’s gamble
IJN Editorial StaffOct 17, 2013
The (ex)federation stakes it future on the new trend in Jewish philanthropy: donor control. Time will tell whether it will work. The Allied Jewish Federation changed its...
Israel Awareness Day
IJN Editorial StaffOct 17, 2013
If, as a Jew, you want to have a feel-good moment — make that a couple of feel-good hours — all you need to do is make the annual trek […]
Insanity, as applied to American Jewish communal policy
IJN Editorial StaffOct 10, 2013
Insanity, it has famously been said, is to do the exact same thing twice, but to expect a different result each time. Put down as insane one of the responses […]
When 800,000 people come to a funeral on four hours notice
IJN Editorial StaffOct 10, 2013
The passing of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef speaks volumes about Jewish respect for sages and the solidarity of Sephardi Jewry Who is more easy to identify — Leon Blum or...
‘It became necessary to destroy the day school — in order to save it’
IJN Editorial StaffOct 03, 2013
The nonsensical rationalization after the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968 it became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it echoes in a current...