Opinion
Dispensable fathers and mothers
IJN Editorial StaffJul 04, 2013
Nineteen firefighters die in one blaze in Arizona. A heat wave stretches across much of the country, and 658 people die each year from too much heat, according to the...
Five daughters of redemption
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 04, 2013
One of the great motifs in the book of Numbers is the land of Israel: the implicit rejection of the land by the Israelites revisionist perspective of how great things...
Rapping with Rapp
Hillel GoldbergJul 04, 2013
If a woman converts to Judaism while pregnant, is her child born Jewish? Or does the child need a conversion of its own? Is it always permitted to perform surgery ...
‘Moderate’ Rouhani?
Rocky Mountain JewJul 03, 2013
Why is the international press referring to Iran’s new president as a “moderate”? Is it because he speak English, holds a degree from a British...
STOP
Hillel GoldbergJun 27, 2013
AS anyone who has ever looked into a finely written Torah scroll knows, it is a work of art. It is impressive. A close look reveals more than even columns […]
Technology and the price of convenience
Dennis PragerJun 27, 2013
When I was in high school, I went without lunch for a month in order to pay for my first stereo system. When I was in college and graduate school […]
Humanity’s oldest story
David SirotaJun 27, 2013
This is a tale of two presidents the one we hope we have and the one we actually have. It is also a tale of two kinds of violence […]
Ice cream
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 27, 2013
What is it about summer and ice cream? Do you know anyone, grown-up or child alike, who doesnt have an affection for this frozen confection? If you do, I would...
The US is setting itself up for failure in Syria
IJN Editorial StaffJun 27, 2013
World powers understand that the civil war in Syria is a proxy war, testing Americas resolve. For the US to announce that it expects no major military shift in power...
Supreme Court rules on BRCA
IJN Editorial StaffJun 27, 2013
The US Supreme Court ruled June 13 that isolated human genes, including the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes so prevalent in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, cannot be patented....
