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The Pope’s Jewish legacy: Seeing the forest, not the trees

In evaluating the interfaith legacy of non-Jewish religious leaders, Jews sometimes forget that the main allegiance of these leaders is to their own faith. Keeping that...

What is it with soccer?

We’ve seen it in Latin America and Europe — and now Israel. Fans of soccer — sometimes even players — behave like fools, or worse. Soccer fans, particularly of...

Incivil defense of civil unions

According to Colorado Sen. Pat Steadman, if one opposes, not civil unions, but merely a clause in the bill that would allow adoption agencies, on First Amendment...

Shalit inspires joy – and discomfort

Keren Hayesod (or United Israel Appeal) Switzerland was at the plate with two strikes. The first in their series of annual fundraisers, which brought the former French...

Epitaph

I REMEMBER reading the intriguing New York Times article back in 2008, interviewing former mayor of New York City Ed Koch about his burial. This past Friday, at age 88,...

Shades of secession

The Denver Post editorial page (Feb. 5) is in a tizzy because Greenwood Village has “defied the Colorado constitution” in banning the transportation of marijuana...

Netanyahu’s not in charge of peace

It is not easy for pragmatic America to accept that some problems don’t have solutions. One of them is Israel-Palestinian negotiations over a two-state solution, under...

Hagel, a disaster for Israel

We believe that the average reader of the Intemountain Jewish News knows more about aspects of America’s defense policy than Chuck Hagel, nominated to be American’s...

Bravo to Bulgaria

An international pat on the back is owed to Bulgaria, which, in a rare act of European political courage and moral clarity, put the blame for last summer’s bombing of...

A heterogeneous Knesset

Israel’s election results last week came as surprise: Netanyahu was returned to power by an unexpectedly narrow margin and now faces the extremely difficult...