Opinion
Defiance
Rocky Mountain JewNov 10, 2009
The story of the Bielski Brothers, and Jewish partisans in general, was largely unknown before the release of the film Defiance. Here in our own community we had two...
All that lying about the Armenian genocide did not help
IJN Editorial StaffNov 05, 2009
We could use the word diplomacy or politics or ignorance or objectivity or fairness. In truth, there is only one word: lie. For many years, some...
Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall
IJN Editorial StaffNov 05, 2009
This is certainly the year for anniversaries: 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe; 80 years since the notorious pogrom in...
From generation to generation
Hillel GoldbergNov 05, 2009
WHAT does a great-grandparent know of his great-grandchild born the day after he dies? What does a child, told that his looks or mannerisms resemble the grandparent he...
What is the secret to happiness?
Yisroel & Shloime EngelNov 05, 2009
Dear Tzviling, I recently came back from my first trip to Israel. It was truly fascinating, especially the time I spent in Safed (Tzfat). In Tzfat I noticed that...
The baseball-hostility phase
Tehilla R. GoldbergNov 05, 2009
I KNOW. I know. They are despised by all of us official non-New Yorkers. But I gotta tell ya, if you are in New York now, loyal fan or not, […]
Links to…J Street
Rocky Mountain JewOct 30, 2009
Does AIPAC no longer represent the broad political spectrum of American Jews? Do all American Jews hold the same viewpoint regarding Israel and the peace process? Must...
Night workers
Hillel GoldbergOct 29, 2009
In Jerusalem, their eyes, their bodies, their lives tell you nothing. Some are bound up with the military or political establishment, while others are disengaged from...
To blame the Times, Post or FoxNews is not presidential
IJN Editorial StaffOct 29, 2009
The president of the United States rightly asks to be taken as the president the leader of the country, not a party partisan when he wishes to address […]
Justice Scalia’s remarks lie somewhere between the obtuse and the ignorant
IJN Editorial StaffOct 29, 2009
According to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, it is an outrageous conclusion that a war memorial featuring a cross honors only Christian war dead. His statement...
