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Rethinking Sukkot, and ourselves

Jewish Women International has published “Rethinking Sukkot,” a meditation on healthy relationships just in time for the holiday. Utilizing Jewish texts, the guide...

Irving Hook, 1924-2012

The Denver Jewish community lost one of its most distinguished denizens when Irving Hook died this week. He was a sterling representative of the Jewish people in all of...

US policy in the Arab world in a shambles

It makes no difference whether the riots against American embassies in the Arab and Islamic world are a response to the 14-minute anti-Islam movie trailer. If the movie...

Don’t like it? Don’t watch it

The publication of Salman Rushdie’s memoir Joseph Anton coincided with last week’s violent protests in the Middle East over a rubbish film about Mohammed....

Yizkor and Yom Kippur

The power of Yizkor should not be underestimated. The memorial service is the highlight of the day in many synagogues, and is the draw for many who do not attend...

Is a red line a wise line?

We’ll give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the benefit of the doubt on the “red line” issue, assuming that his insistence on a US deadline for military...

Dissent: The missing ingredient in Arab ‘democracy’

The killings of US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans during the assault on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, last week is still under...

Are leftists deaf to global hate speech?

HAVE you noticed that the left regularly condemns alleged conservative “hate speech” but is almost completely silent on the most pervasive hate speech in the world?...

Yom Kippur, the circle of forgiveness

YOM Kippur, the gift of a day that comes to the Jewish people once a year. Every week there is Shabbat, a sacred pause to the week. But once a […]

Bin Laden was not ‘brought to justice’

This is not a political column. Like every other American, I hope the killers of the US ambassador to Libya will be caught, tried, convicted and punished. Likewise, I am...