Opinion
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...
On behalf of Jewish destiny
Tehilla R. GoldbergDec 14, 2023
I write this column on the fifth candle of Chanukah — the candle that tips the even number of candles lit. According to chasidic teaching, this is the candle that...
Where am I this Chanukah?
Hillel GoldbergDec 07, 2023
Are the lights on the Chanukah menorah like speech or like silence? Do they open up our minds and souls to the meaning of the evil that has surrounded us, the Jewish...
The Chanukah lights
IJN Editorial StaffDec 07, 2023
The adjective that most describes the Jewish people today — resilient — is repeated again and again. As the State of Israel now witnesses its greatest military...
They are worried that we are worried
Herb KeinonDec 07, 2023
With two sons who have spent a good part of the last month fighting Hamas in Gaza, another bouncing between battling Hezbollah in the North and preparing to enter Gaza...
