Opinion
Passover: Holiday of hope and freedom
Amy LedermanMar 21, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 11 PASSOVER in Israel is a magical time of year. The winter rains and chilly air are replaced by a flurry of activity and sense
Kudos: Four free Jews who personify Passover
IJN Editorial StaffMar 21, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 24 Every year the IJN salutes people known or obscure who bring freedom into our lives. It is alway time to say thank […]
It’s different from procrastination
Hillel GoldbergMar 21, 2013
DOES anyone else have this problem? I only get things done when Im supposed to be doing something else. Not always, but complication seems to be congenial. Did this...
Chazzan Koll
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 21, 2013
My relationship with Cantor Isaac Koll and Torah study goes back to my high school days. Before any of us could drive, my sister Mimi and I were in carpool […]
MATZA: Mental Anguish TZviling Alert
Yisroel & Shloime EngelMar 21, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 11 Dear Tzviling, Help! Passover is around the corner and I dont know where to begin. I know I have to get rid of every […]
Religiously boycotting Israel
Rocky Mountain JewMar 15, 2013
Ed Husain, a researcher with the Council of Foreign Relations, wrote a surprising piece last week in the New York Times on the Arab boycott of Israel. It was surprising...
The many faces of Jewish theft
Amy LedermanMar 14, 2013
MY career as a criminal began one hot summer afternoon when I was six years old and my mother suggested I help her clean out the closets. I was thrilled […]
Some dawns are golden, others are blood red
IJN Editorial StaffMar 14, 2013
They laughed at the Nazis, too.? It behooves everyone inside Greece and elsewhere to see the Golden Dawn for what it is: a frightening, growing, Nazi-like movement....
Insanity plea is often just an excuse
IJN Editorial StaffMar 14, 2013
So, is there really no such thing as evil anymore? Are all the despicable murders attributable to a mental or emotional deficit beyond the control and responsibility of...
Angel’s tears
Tehilla R. GoldbergMar 14, 2013
THE last time I saw him his health had already taken a turn for the worse. It was after another one-of-a-kind Chuck Vernoff Shabbos, permeated by his profound Torah...