Opinion
Is there an doctor in the house?
Amy LedermanOct 29, 2009
THE current debate over health care reform is more than a bit disconcerting. The constant barrage of media coverage and political mud-slinging has given me chronic...
Genesis: the first principles of Judaism
Temima ShulmanOct 29, 2009
IF you were looking for something new on the Torah as the reading cycle starts up again, may I suggest Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Covenant and Conversation, a weekly reading...
Destruction and rebirth in East Germany
Shana GoldbergOct 26, 2009
Memorial to the Great Synagogue of Leipzig, which was destroyed during Kristallnacht, 1938 Last week I conducted an extremely brief and therefore somewhat superficial...
Faster or slower?
Hillel GoldbergOct 22, 2009
HE is forgotten. And why not? He died in the 1700s. He left no wife or children. He left no property. Wrote no book. Painted no painting.
Brushstrokes of war
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 22, 2009
I WILL leave the more substantive and critical remarks regarding the Goldstone Report to more savvy political commentators. That really is not my department. I know...
She wants to light candles
Yisroel & Shloime EngelOct 22, 2009
Dear Tzviling, I moved to Long Island last year and decided to send my daughter Naomi to a Hebrew Day School even though we are not religious. Before Rosh Hashanah...
Wolf criers in Fort Collins
IJN Editorial StaffOct 22, 2009
The shepherd boy sat on the hillside watching the village sheep. He was bored. To amuse himself, the boy cried wolf. The wolf is chasing the sheep! Well, the...
Peace or symbolism
IJN Editorial StaffOct 22, 2009
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are facts on the ground and facts in the air. On the ground, relations between Israel and the Palestinians are better than any...
Friendship
IJN Editorial StaffOct 22, 2009
Did you hear the one about the pastor and the rabbi? Maybe you didnt, but last Sunday some 3,000 lovers of Israel did. At Faith Bible Chapels 31st annual Israel...
Long lost relatives
Rocky Mountain JewOct 16, 2009
When browsing the Internet for our regular “Links to the world” posting, we came across a fascinating story about a UK government minister who discovered a...
