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Egypt: You cannot base peace on two men

Those initial skeptics of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel used to say: “Peace cannot be based on one man.” The man they meant was Anwar Sadat, who, in...

Anne Epstein, 1923-2011

Until the past few years, B’nai B’rith was an all-male organization; locally it was proudly known as B’nai B’rith Denver Lodge #171. In the old days, the lodge...

Muslim support for Shalit

Among the peripheral victims of 9/11 were non-jihadist American Muslims. Apparently, the Saudi-based fundamentalist Islamic terrorists who planned and carried out the...

Osama bin Laden won

It is truly a consolation that Osama bin Laden is dead, that his organization is, apparently, reeling, that since 9/11 America has not been hit by a major terrorist...

If you live long enough . . .

The United Nations is vacuously anti-Israel. What a surprise —  a shock, actually — to learn of the UN report on the flotilla. Turkey, in 2010, let loose a number...

On 3 Elul, remembering Rav Kuk

The Jewish calendar date today is 3 Elul. This marks the yahrzeit, or anniversary of death, of the first chief rabbi of Palestine, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kuk, both a...

High Tech vs. low wages: Balance needed in Israel

There is no limit to the technological creativity — the apps, the environmental devices, the medical advances, the energy savers — coming out of Israel today. It’s...

Values versus abilities

You’d expect the tanking economy and the unrest in Libya and Egypt to dominate the talk around the water cooler and over the airwaves these days. Not so in Denver!...

Think of the possibilities

We admit, cremation is not the most appetizing of subjects, even if brought up only to emphasize that it violates the Jewish way of burial — still, there are surely...

Egypt is responsible for the terrorism against Israel that comes from . . . Egypt

Nobody wants to return to the days when Egypt routinely made war on, or sponsored terrorists attacks against, Israel. Nobody, that is, in Israel and the West. But in...