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Is the threat of a strike enough?

Last year, prior to Mahmud Abbas’ request from the UN for unilateral recognition, we reported back from a discussion on how geopolitics were shaping the Middle...

In praise of low tech

I HAVE three computers in my office: low tech, medium tech, and high tech. The operating system on the low tech computer is MS DOS. No doubt, many people in […]

The Jewish Atomic Clock

Like Yehuda Avner’s The Prime Ministers, a non-fiction narrative of modern day Israel that reads with the rhythm and pace of historical fiction, the recently published...

May a general call suicide selfish?

ON his army blog of Jan. 19, the commanding general of Fort Bliss (Texas), Major General Dana Pittard, wrote regarding members of the military who commit suicide: “I...

Louise Kazzaz, 1929-2012

Jews either love Israel or rarely give her a second, serious thought. For many years, Louise Kazzaz was the singular voice of Israel in Denver. A one-woman cultural...

JFS at 140

Starting in 1972 as the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society, this organization evolved into the Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Denver, then into its current...

A pernicious pattern at the UN

Forty-five years ago, in May, 1967, Egypt pushed its troops into the Sinai Peninsula, right up to the Israel-Egypt border. The Egyptian move was one of many by Egypt in...

Poland doth protest too much

Poland is up in arms over an inaccurate statement President Obama made at a ceremony honoring a Polish hero of the Holocaust, Jan Karski, with the highest American...

Making sense of your child’s test scores

Coloring inside the lines didn’t carry high stakes when we were kids.  But for our children — growing up in the era of No Child Left Behind – coloring in […]

Turkey’s ostentatious symbolism

The indictment by a Turkish court this week of four Israeli military commanders for their involvement in the 2010 killing of nine Turkish activists aboard the Gaza-bound...