Editorials
Paralysis on Libya
IJN Editorial StaffMar 17, 2011
Supposedly, democracy is sweepnig the Muslim world. We merely need to sit back and watch. From Tunisia and Egypt, its all going to flow easily, nonviolently, without ...
Agony in Japan
IJN Editorial StaffMar 17, 2011
Watching endless news feeds of frenzied waves flattening homes into matchsticks and spinning cars into twisted metal, its almost impossible to take our eyes off Japan....
Throat slittings, pools of blood
IJN Editorial StaffMar 17, 2011
At the IJN, we strive mightily to avoid editorializing in the news stories and headlines. That the headline of this editorial also appears on our front page this week...
Joseph Samuels, 1915-2011
IJN Editorial StaffMar 10, 2011
Chauvinistic regionalism has long advanced the notion that people from Colorado and Texas should not get along. Loyal Coloradoans though we consider ourselves to be, we...
There are no sacred cows when there is no cash
IJN Editorial StaffMar 10, 2011
Is this a contradiction? Unions played a pivotal role in 20th-century America, protecting the working man and woman against unsafe conditions, excessive hours and...
Christian and Jewish
IJN Editorial StaffMar 10, 2011
After John Galliano, head designer for Christian Dior, made insulting anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments to a couple in a Paris cafe. Natalie Portman heard about it,...
Lester Gold, 1922-2011
IJN Editorial StaffMar 03, 2011
The word colorful was invented for Lester Gold. We might call Gold, who died this week, a philanthropist, an astute businessman, a behind-the-scenes leader who made...
Danger signals for American Jewry
IJN Editorial StaffMar 03, 2011
Look outside. The weather is the same. The streets are peaceful. Cars whiz by. People chat and the world goes on. It is precisely this surface peace that hides, that...
State of Maryland and Nazis
IJN Editorial StaffFeb 24, 2011
Wasnt the Holocaust over long ago? Isnt it slightly ridiculous for the State of Maryland to be dredging up memories of French collaboration with the Nazis? Actually...
Lunatic in Libya
IJN Editorial StaffFeb 24, 2011
Saif al-Islam Qadaffi the 38-year-old son of longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffi promised this week to fight that nations steadily intensifying uprising...
