Opinion
Summer fun in Denver
Rocky Mountain JewAug 02, 2012
Now that Tisha b’Av is over, it’s time to focus once again on summer fun! In last month’s Generations Magazine, IJN intern Joe Parris investigated some...
Forty years and one minute since the Munich massacre
IJN Editorial StaffJul 26, 2012
It is extremely unfortunate that the International Olympic Committee’s boneheaded (anti-Semitic? anti-Israel?) refusal to honor the Israeli athletes murdered by...
The dark night descending into a gun obsessed culture
IJN Editorial StaffJul 26, 2012
The killer in the Aurora theater is alone responsible for his acts. The cause of the killings is himself. It is a gross oversimplification of causality within a complex,...
‘May his name be blotted out’
Hillel GoldbergJul 26, 2012
THE best thing President Obama has done in his time in office, in my opinion, was making a point of not mentioning the name of the killer in Aurora, Colorado. […]
Tisha b’Av — Jewish response to tragedy
Amy LedermanJul 26, 2012
I NEVER heard of Tisha bAv when I was growing up. Rosh Hashanah? As sure as honey cake. Yom Kippur? Guilt gone wild. Purim? Halloween Jewish style. But Tisha bAv...
Power Tools — helping kids cope with terror
Sharon Duke EstroffJul 26, 2012
It was a tough week on the news ticker for parents. First came the heinous attack on an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria, followed only days later by the incomprehensible...
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 ...
