Opinion
The Ten Suggestions?
IJN Editorial StaffJun 05, 2008
Democracy and the rule of law are wonderful until you get a parking ticket. Then you wish the enforcers were less competent, that democracy did not work so well. Its...
Shavuot, Ruth…beginning anew
Tehilla R. GoldbergJun 05, 2008
This week we will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot, marking G-ds revelation at Mount Sinai and the gift of the Torah. On Shavuot we open the scroll of Ruth. Every...
Negotiating out of weakness
IJN Editorial StaffMay 29, 2008
Sometimes you have no choice but to negotiate. Lyndon B. Johnson would have told you after it became clear that he would not beat John F. Kennedy for the Democratic...
Hollywood couldn’t have done it any better
IJN Editorial StaffMay 29, 2008
Pure fiction, is what French media watchdog Philippe Karsenty called the ostensible news film aired eight years ago by a major French television station. Actually,...
G-d, the Holocaust and a pastor
Dennis PragerMay 29, 2008
Comments about G-d and the Holocaust made in a sermon 10 years ago by a leading evangelical pastor, John Hagee, have received a great deal of attention. They have led...
Segues of our lives: F and B
Tehilla R. GoldbergMay 29, 2008
Lifes points of departure are always a challenge. How do you leave a life or a world behind and embrace a new, different one? Navigating these transitions is never...
‘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...
