Opinion
‘What do you do for a living?’ — ‘I design bullets’
Hillel GoldbergMay 29, 2008
My favorite topic: how to kill people, that is, how best to kill people. That wasnt the actual headline, but it could have been. This bullet vs. that bullet....
Watson, meet Nakamura
IJN Editorial StaffMay 29, 2008
Have you heard this joke? As youll see, its not entirely a joke. A Jew spends years teaching his parrot to daven the entire High Holiday services. The parrots...
Time for President Bush to nominate judges
IJN Editorial StaffMay 29, 2008
Under the best of circumstances, legal proceedings take time. Patience is required no matter what side of the table one is on. It is incumbent upon all concerned to do...
Should Israel dismantle checkpoints to make life easier for the Palestinians?
IJN Editorial StaffMay 29, 2008
Checkpoints criss-cross the West Bank and the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. They make it difficult for Palestinians to travel to work, to friends or...
The ghost’s ghost
Hillel GoldbergMay 23, 2008
Ive never had a ghost writer. But what about a ghosts ghost? That would be Andrea Jacobs, IJN senior writer. I drift by Andreas window, tossing out the standard,...
Good and bad
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 23, 2008
Something difficult happened the other day when someone’s knee jerk reaction was blithely declaring that everything G-d does is for the best. They proceeded with a...
Will the real Kabbalah please stand up?
Amy LedermanMay 22, 2008
What do Madonna, Demi Moore and Britney Spears have in common with 16th-century Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria?< If you ask most Jews, absolutely nothing but a misguided...
Legislature responds to special needs
IJN Editorial StaffMay 16, 2008
It is said that justice delayed is justice denied. Likewise, aid delayed is life decayed until last week, when a bipartisan group of Colorado state legislators...
The specter of an Iranian pincer on Israel’s northern and souther borders
IJN Editorial StaffMay 16, 2008
I. Two seemingly disconnected items actually tell the story, and a sorry one at that, of Israel today. Item #1: The JTA news service reports that Egypt is negotiating...
Happy Birthday, Israel!
Rachel GordonMay 16, 2008
As we all know, this month is Israels 60th birthday. Id like to briefly examine what this means, to reach the big 6-0. A 60-year old man or woman would […]
