Editorials
Cyber warfare: Beyond Asimov
IJN Editorial StaffAug 30, 2012
It briefly occurred to us in the midst of the ongoing Israel-Iran confrontation that a new era might be dawning. When brilliant minds from Israel and the US created...
Outraged or astonished?
IJN Editorial StaffAug 23, 2012
The way Missouri Rep. Todd Akin sees it, some rapes are legitimate and some are not; some are forced and some are not; some defy the laws of nature and […]
Jerusalem welcomes Kitty Genovese
IJN Editorial StaffAug 23, 2012
Something is terribly wrong when Jewish teenagers in Jerusalem attack innocent people — and hundreds watch, and do nothing. Just like hundreds watched and did nothing...
Freedom of religion means. . .religions you don’t agree with
IJN Editorial StaffAug 23, 2012
Should Jews be denied the Presidential Medal of Freedom because Judaism believes in the Chosen People? Should Catholics be denied the Nobel Prize because Catholicism...
No light from Ramallah
IJN Editorial StaffAug 16, 2012
Ramallah has approved the construction of a memorial honoring the Palestinian terrorists who killed 11 Israelis in a 1975 attack on the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv. We are...
A ray of light from Egypt?
IJN Editorial StaffAug 16, 2012
When Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, Israel and Egypt agreed that the area would remain demilitarized. No one dreamed that anyone might fight there...
Aurora. . .Wisconsin: Scourge of the times
IJN Editorial StaffAug 09, 2012
The nation, and Colorado, have barely had time to catch their collective breath after last month’s massacre in an Aurora theater while yet another mass killing takes...
Outrage is not enough
IJN Editorial StaffAug 09, 2012
Outrage is not enough. Knowledge is not enough. Conscience is not enough. Relief efforts are not enough. Genocide is not stopped by sentiment. There’s a pattern to...
Gordon Friednash, 1933-2012
IJN Editorial StaffAug 02, 2012
They invented the word integrity for Gordon Friednash. They invented something else, too: the capacity to inject a smile and a joke and a bit of deadpan humor into a...
Missy makes us proud
IJN Editorial StaffAug 02, 2012
Everyone in Colorado is cheering for Missy Franklin. As of Wednesday, the 17-year-old Regis Jesuit High student won two golds, a bronze and set a record in the...