Opinion
If this is remembrance, we prefer amnesia
IJN Editorial StaffNov 19, 2020
CNN anchor disfigures the Holocaust Holocaust survivors wondered whether the Holocaust would be remembered after their deaths. Historians always regard accurate...
Pandemic or not, we welcome Thanksgiving
IJN Editorial StaffNov 19, 2020
For many of us, Purim was the last time we shared a holiday meal with those outside of our immediate families. For some of us, it goes back even further, to last...
Bernice Zussman, 1926-2020
IJN StaffNov 19, 2020
There is a very select number of women who somehow emerge as matriarchs in our community. No one elects them; they themselves do not hold themselves out in this way. It...
‘Settled science’ and ‘things he shouldn’t say’
Hillel GoldbergNov 12, 2020
Do not look at the extreme partisan rhetoric to discern the worst poison in our political discourse. Look instead to the cool, restrained, seemingly objective,...
What a Biden presidency could mean for Israel
Jonathan TobinNov 12, 2020
For some supporters of President Donald Trump in both Israel and the US, the prospect of a President Joe Biden is a scenario they never wanted to contemplate. Both the...
As if one dramatic loss were not enough
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 12, 2020
We made a pact before Friday night Shabbos dinner. No politics. Some guests were liberals, some conservatives, and with the tension of the election still suspended in...
Welcome President Biden
IJN Editorial StaffNov 12, 2020
Congratulations on your election, President Joe Biden. Barring some unlikely, drastic alteration in the vote totals once the states officially certify their results, the...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 1948-2020
IJN Editorial StaffNov 12, 2020
Count us among the countless other admirers, readers, publishers and mourners of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who died of cancer last Shabbat, Nov. 7, 2020. The Intermountain...
Big losers in 2020: pollsters
IJN Editorial StaffNov 12, 2020
Maybe it’s built-in bias, such as the way pollsters’ questions are phrased. Maybe it’s the new technology, such as universal caller ID, i.e., the self-selecting...
Listing
Shana GoldbergNov 12, 2020
I truly hope it doesn’t come to this again in Colorado, but it seems we’re at the knife’s edge of another “stay at home” order. These have already come back...
