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Insanity plea is often just an excuse

So, is there really no such thing as evil anymore? Are all the despicable murders attributable to a mental or emotional deficit beyond the control and responsibility of...

Death saves Hugo Chavez from worse

One shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. So the saying goes. But, regrettably, there are exceptions. Hitler comes to mind. So does Stalin, Pol Pot and a host of other...

Joan Rivers

Read on, and wonder. How could anyone, let alone anyone Jewish, let alone anybody with even a superficial knowledge of the Holocaust, comment on a dress worn by a German...

Turkey’s Erdogan’s crime against truth

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at a UNmeeting called Zionism a crime against humanity. Earth to Erdogan: The infamous Zionism=Racism resolution at the UN,...

Latest plea for Pollard

When President Obama travels to Israel this month, he will be presented with a request to let Jonathan Pollard out of prison on the basis of time served. No doubt,...

Denver Academy of Torah at 20

It is hard to imagine driving west on Alameda Avenue without seeing the imposing, proud home of the Denver Academy of Torah. It is hard to believe that it has […]

Rabbi Dr. Stanley M. Wagner, 1932-2013

In 1972, when Rabbi Stanley M. Wagner, came to the BMH, the synagogue had not really recovered from the deaths of Rabbis Samuel Adelman (1966) and Charles Eliezer Hillel...

Kollel milestone

The Denver Community Kollel came to Denver 15 years ago with a hard-to-sell agenda: Torah study. For most in the community, this was remote and mysterious. With patience...

Bernard Springer, 1921-2013

Bernie Springer was an insurance agent and, from all accounts, a pretty good one. He was also a devoted community supporter — most notably for Beth Israel Hospital and...

If a pillow and a pear come from a synagogue, they’re not treif

Would ADL and others have Israelis who went to Haiti after the earthquake there refuse to help rebuild a Haitian house of worship? FEMA, Sandy, and human solidarity...