Opinion
Rabbi Leonard Helman (Santa Fe)
Hillel GoldbergJun 13, 2013
RABBI Leonard Helman was a close friend and a mystery. The Rabbi Different, he was called. Indeed he was. I felt a sense of personal loss when I learned
Christian minister against ‘G-d Bless America’
Dennis PragerJun 13, 2013
If you were a Christian minister who was given the opportunity to write an op-ed piece for the Washington Post, what subject would you choose? War and peace? The decline...
The messenger
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 13, 2013
I read two important articles side by side in The New Yorker, one titled Why Edward Snowden is a Hero, by John Cassidy, the other by his colleague Jeffrey Toobin,...
Sisterly love between Boulder and Nablus?
IJN Editorial StaffJun 06, 2013
Boulder is on our minds this weekend with the Boulder Jewish Festival taking place Sunday on the Pearl Street Mall. It’s always fun to see the Front Range Jewish...
What’s with Bolivia?
IJN Editorial StaffJun 06, 2013
The guilty-until-proven-innocent treatment of Jacob Ostreicher in Bolivia is a blatant case of judicial corruption that hits close to home because it involves an...
Matchstick factories: Watch what you wear
IJN Editorial StaffJun 06, 2013
A little more than a century ago, on March 25, 1911, 146 garment workers — mostly young Jewish and Italian immigrants trying to support their families — perished in...
‘G-d promised Israel to the Jews’
Hillel GoldbergJun 06, 2013
G-D promised Israel to the Jews what does that mean? What is the main issue here? ? What does the idea of a promised land mean? It does not […]
Washington fairy tales
David SirotaJun 06, 2013
As social media accelerate the velocity of political news, fact-free stereotypes and reductionist shorthand are increasingly substituted for accuracy and nuance. Coastal...
Outsiders within the family
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 06, 2013
KORACH is notorious as a contentious and power hungry person who tried to overthrow the leadership of Moses and Aaron. Joining Korach in the coup against the leadership...
Al-Dura exposes fault lines in Israel’s approach
Shana GoldbergJun 05, 2013
Note: Philippe Karsenty will be speaking at BMH-BJ on August 20, 2013. More details How many of you remember a picture from the Second Intifada of a Palestinian boy,...
