Opinion
Syria by the numbers
Rocky Mountain JewJul 25, 2012
In his View from Denver last week, Hillel Goldberg condemned the Obama administration for doing nothing on Syria. “No food aid. No sequestered safety zones for...
Solving settlements
Rocky Mountain JewJul 20, 2012
A lot has changed in the two weeks since Alan Dershowitz penned this line: “Now that Israel has a broad and secure national unity government, the time is ripe for...
Humanitarian crisis in Syria
Hillel GoldbergJul 19, 2012
I USED to laugh, too, when people would suggest that the US might someday put the UN above its own national interests. I used to laugh, too, during the 2008 […]
‘For these I weep’
Tehilla R. GoldbergJul 19, 2012
EACH summer, as the Hebrew month of Tammuz on the Jewish calendar rolls around, there is a palpable sense of heaviness. There is a strange feeling in the air ...
Spare the dog
IJN Editorial StaffJul 19, 2012
Students in high school psychology classes learn about “displacement” — kicking the dog when you get home after a tough day at work. In northwest Pakistan, the...
Terrorism in Bulgaria
IJN Editorial StaffJul 19, 2012
Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attack targeting an airport bus carrying newly arrived Israeli tourists in a Black Sea Bulgarian coast town has claimed at least seven...
Banning the bris in the former land of Nazis
IJN Editorial StaffJul 19, 2012
Of all places in the world that you would think would be especially sensitive not to persecute Jews, it would be Germany. You would think. And you would be wrong....
Passing it on: Letters to survivors
Rocky Mountain JewJul 19, 2012
Last week’s IJN included a really special supplement: 13 local Holocaust survivors, who over the years have spoken with students in local schools and colleges,...
Headlines from Europe
Shana GoldbergJul 13, 2012
In an extremely close vote, Presbyterian Church (USA) voted against boycotting Israel. That the motion was defeated by only two votes doesn’t point to a victory...
Peres and the Olympics
IJN Editorial StaffJul 12, 2012
In his ninth decade Shimon Peres has finally found redemption. Israel’s perennial political loser has blossomed, ironically enough, in the politically neutral position...