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Obama’s speech to the Arab world

President Obama has a way with words and a beautiful ability to set a mood. That he certainly did in his speech to the Muslim world, June 4. He was […]

Holocaust Museum shooting

This Wednesday, close to press time, a white supremacist exchanged gunfire with a security guard at the US Holocaust Museum. The guard’s quick response no doubt...

The tuition crisis is about a lot more than dollars

WHY is the day school movement not growing? Perhaps a particular school — or city — is an exception to the  trend, but the so-called tuition crisis is taking its...

Obama in Cairo: a student of history?

I am no political speech analyst, but are we not all at least a little worried by Obama’s speech in Cairo? The truth is, at first I couldn’t decide whether […]

Obama in Cairo: not bad, but sad

It appears that President Barack Obama decided not to incorporate any of the points on American-Muslim relations I included in my last column, a speech I suggested he...

Shabbat and civil disobedience

Several months ago, an IJN editorial prompted discussion on how religious a state Israel should be. We all know it’s a “Jewish” state, but what does...

Links to the world

This week, our “links to world” brings us right here to Colorado. Alysa Stanton, former Colorado resident and graduate of Colorado State University in Ft....

A hole in the commentary on Judge Sotomayor

I won’t comment on whether Judge Sotomayor is discriminatory for having said that a class of people, white males, are inferior in judgment to a class of people, Latina...

Why is Obama hassling Israel on settlements when Israel already ceded the point nine years ago?

One image sticks forever in our mind: The lush greenhouses of Gaza, erected and nourished by Israelis, turned over to the Palestinians in 2005, and promptly burned to...

The speech President Obama didn’t give

This week, President Barack Obama was scheduled to give a major address in Cairo to the Muslim world. He was likely to reiterate what he has stated previously to Muslim...