Opinion
After Oklahoma disaster, thank government
David SirotaMay 30, 2013
Within hours of last weeks tornado disaster in Oklahoma, I (like many others) received emails from the President of the US and my senator. With impassioned language,...
A Colorado hero
Shana GoldbergMay 27, 2013
On Friday I shared with you some of my thoughts after visiting three World War I battlefields, largely focused on the Jewish tombstones found in cemeteries of both the...
In memoriam
Shana GoldbergMay 24, 2013
I know that Memorial Day is about American veterans, but this being the Intermountain Jewish News, and me having just visited three WW I battlefields, I was inspired to...
Transparency? What transparency?
IJN Editorial StaffMay 23, 2013
To put it mildly, the Obama administration’s attempt to intimidate and, indeed, to shut down any investigative journalistic effort it doesn’t like makes a mockery of...
All in a day’s work?
Hillel GoldbergMay 23, 2013
All in a days work? I hope not. Normally, the Jewish communitys Walk for Israel would energize my Sunday. It is critical for both Jews and non-Jews in Denver to...
The economic costs of workplace accidents
David SirotaMay 23, 2013
IF I told you that government officials possessed ironclad proof that an imminent threat to this nation had the capacity to create a 9/11s worth of injuries and deaths...
Memorial Day: Losing our veterans
IJN Editorial StaffMay 23, 2013
As time marches on, so does the rate at which we are losing our veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict. WW II ended 68 years ago; the […]
To pray or not to pray
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 23, 2013
It just so happened that when I was traveling to Israel a couple of weeks ago for a visit, it was Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), the commemoration of the day...
Shavuot insights
Rocky Mountain JewMay 17, 2013
The idea of Torah learning may not be the original concept behind the holiday of Shavuot, but over the centuries, it has become central to celebrating the holiday. On...
Rosa Parks, ADL, kosher food
Hillel GoldbergMay 16, 2013
WHAT exactly was wrong with the way Rosa Parks was treated? Parks, of course, was the courageous lady who began the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in 1955, a seminal...
