Israel Independence
Israel’s fruit of the vine: Newfound respect for very old tradition
Chris LeppekApr 11, 2013
FOR a long time, Israeli wines like those of California suffered from what could be called the Rodney Dangerfield syndrome: They didnt get any respect. Wine...
Meet Alexander Maller, architect and philosopher
Andrea JacobsApr 26, 2012
UNTIL his family emigrated to Israel in 1958, 10 years after the Jewish states improbable birth, Alexander Maller suffocated under a tyranny of pernicious silence in...
Levin ‘smitten’ after recent trip to Israel
Chris LeppekApr 26, 2012
SO just how is Israel doing as it approaches its 64th birthday? Is it, like the Beatles once lamented in singing about that particular number, losing its hair and...
‘Next year in Jerusalem’: What it means to a broad spectrum of Denverites
Andrea JacobsMay 05, 2011
At the conclusion of the Passover seder, four exclamatory words reverberate around the table like a lightning bolt. Next year in Jerusalem! Slumbering grandchildren...
40 years of IST — it’s in a very different place from where it started
Chris LeppekMay 05, 2011
LET us ponder, for just a moment, the significance of the number 40 in Judaism and Jewish life. The ancient Hebrews wandered for 40 years in the desert on their...
Does J Street harm Israel? Sparks fly during IJN facilitated discussion
Andrea JacobsApr 16, 2010
PLACING Jews with opposing viewpoints of the Israeli-Palestinian situation in the same room is like venturing outside on an early spring evening. Dress for polite...
Herb Keinon: Hometown boy makes good as diplomatic correspondent
Chris LeppekMay 01, 2009
In a coffee shop in his native city, as a Denver spring blizzard howls outside, Herb Keinon contemplates the roads not taken. More than two decades ago, with a brand...
‘My first time in Israel’
IJN StaffMay 01, 2009
Larry Hankin, IJN Associate Editor It was 1972, and I was finishing my freshman year at college. I worked full time and lived at home during that first year of