Opinion
Why I am voting against 48 (the pro-life amendment)
Hillel GoldbergOct 24, 2008
I received the recent ADL bulletin, urging me to vote no on 46 and 48. I do not urge anyone to vote one way or the other on these amendments […]
California Proposition 8
Dennis PragerOct 24, 2008
Next to the presidential election, California Proposition 8 is the most important vote in America. It will determine the definition of marriage for the largest state in...
Jewish geography: more than a game
Amy LedermanOct 24, 2008
We all know how to play the game. You go to a party and the woman next to you mentions that she just moved from Detroit and for the next […]
Lessons from surprising places
Rocky Mountain JewOct 23, 2008
Not only is death itself inevitable, another truism is that one has no control over what happens after one passes away. Yes, wills and testaments exist to try and...
Under the UN speech codes, you can’t call an Islamic terrorist . . . an Islamic terrorist
IJN Editorial StaffOct 17, 2008
It sounds so innocent: Combatting Defamation of Religion. Who could be against defamation of religion, or of anything else, for that matter? Do we not have an...
Unholy Yom Kippur violence in Acre, Israel
IJN Editorial StaffOct 17, 2008
We were shocked to learn that Jews took to the streets to attack an Arab who drove through a Jewish neighborhood in Acre, Israel, on Yom Kippur. To be sure, […]
A little birdie told us
IJN Editorial StaffOct 17, 2008
On Monday, as one of the IJN staffers scrambled to finish a story before erev Sukkot, the first phone call arrived. The caller belonged to the DAT Minyan which...
My least favorite ‘text’ is the Torah
Hillel GoldbergOct 17, 2008
One of my least favorite words is text as in text of Torah. Any text can be exciting or dull, subtle or stupid, frightening or intimidating; basically, rich...
‘Five minutes’ with M
Tehilla R. GoldbergOct 17, 2008
I prayed an unexpected mincha prayer on Yom Kippur. When the musaf service concluded I left the yeshiva in the Jewish quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem to be...
Census records keys to family history
Mark FearerOct 17, 2008
In my last column, I talked about the importance of vital records. But the starting point for most family historians in authenticating family information is the US...
