Opinion
My best books of 2023
Shana GoldbergDec 28, 2023
Books, along with watching old episodes of “MasterChef Australia,” have become my lifeline. This wasn’t altogether surprising since I’m proud of my membership in...
Hamas won
Hillel GoldbergDec 21, 2023
Hamas has won the war it started on Oct. 7. How could I possibly say this? Thousands of Hamas fighters have been killed. An undetermined number of its terror tunnels...
Definite dead ends in Gaza, and a possible long term solution
IJN Editorial StaffDec 21, 2023
Who should rule a post-war Gaza? Not the PA, not Hamas, not Israel. Who then? One possibility: a temporary international consortium of countries with a direct...
Stalinism returns
Shana GoldbergDec 21, 2023
When I cracked open Beyond the Wall, a new book about East Germany, I didn’t expect it to resonate so srongly with current events.
One messenger…another messenger…
Tehilla R. GoldbergDec 21, 2023
The double tragedy involving a soldier making a split second decision in the heat and fog of battle, mistakenly killing three hostages who, after 70 days in captivity,...
Releasing the emotional numbness of Oct. 7
Chaim GoldbergDec 14, 2023
Since Oct. 8, I have been emotionally numbed. Little did I imagine it would take a transatlantic trip to Colorado for the deep freeze of my emotions to thaw, at least...
Jealousy
Hillel GoldbergDec 14, 2023
The lady says, “Cut!” Cut the child in two. It screams from within the famous story exemplifying King Solomon’s wisdom, which is read this week as the haftarah...
Harmony in unharmonius times
Karen GalatzDec 14, 2023
I was in New York recently to see a jolly round of nine shows. A surprise favorite was the musical, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, an internationally...
‘Genocide of Muslims’ at Harvard ‘depends on context’
IJN Editorial StaffDec 14, 2023
Higher education has become lower education. Without excusing the universities for their own moral dumbing down and pervasive moral relativism, their inability to...
Theatre of the absurd
Shana GoldbergDec 14, 2023
The more information we have, the stupider we get, it seems. Back when I worked in academia, specifically on international relations websites, this was a hot topic. The...
