Intermountain Jewish News

Eight years ago, Jeremy D. (JD) Krones moved to Grand Lake to run Colorado Headwaters Land Trust. Today, he is running for County Commissioner for Grand County. In his mid-30s, Krones has lived in a variety of locations, from Israel to Flagstaff, almost always in rural areas. “Doing what I do and living the life I want to live requires me to live out in the sticks,” he told the IJN last October for its “Difference Makers Under 40” edition.

John Galliano and Anna Wintour pictured in 2021; in the background are Galliano-designed gowns on exhibit at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

Central floor of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania, unearthed July 22, 2026. (Shira Li Bartov) VILNIUS, Lithuania — Archaeologists have uncovered the full floor of Lithuania’s historic Great Synagogue, revealing treasures nearly erased by Nazi and Soviet occupations — and exposing rifts between Lithuanian Jews over how to preserve and interpret what survived.

Rotem Sela and Naomi Levov in ‘Bloody Murray’ (Chai Flicks) By Alan Zeitlin It shouldn’t be too hard for a smart, funny, and successful Israeli woman to meet Mr. Right. At least, that’s the theory hilariously put to the test in “Bloody Murray,” the hit Israeli romantic comedy that recently made its US debut on ChaiFlicks. The series centers on two 35-year-old roommates and best friends navigating careers, dating, and the pressure to settle down in Tel Aviv.

This place must be what protects the entire nation of Israel!” exclaimed the chasid from Ramat Bet Shemesh. We were seated for kiddush on Shabbat morning in Moshav Amirim, a secular community in the Upper Galilee, having just concluded the Shabbat prayers surrounded by every type of Jew — secular, religious, traditional, haredi and chasidic.

Theodor Herzl’s grandparents have been reinterred in Israel. At left, the embroidered cloth covering their coffins during the ceremony. (IJN File Photo/Israel GPO) By Theia Chatelle JERUSALEM — When World Zionist Organization officials working with the Israeli Foreign Ministry opened the grave of Theodor Herzl’s grandfather on July 29 in Zemun, Serbia, they found it empty. Shimon Leib Herzl was not buried beneath his tombstone.

Brothers Daniel (left) and Moshe Galinkin reunite in Poland in July, 2026 after nearly a decade of separation. (Courtesy) By Etgar Lefkovits WARSAW — It was a surprise reunion. For the last nine years, Moshe Galinkin had been unable to see his younger brother Daniel, first because of travel restrictions imposed during COVID and then because of the war in Ukraine.

The colonialist claim against Israel would lead to the absurdity of the Mamdanis needing to go back to Uganda and South Africa. Is Israel a colonialist disfiguration? Is Israel illegitimate? Is Israel no better than the British were, say, in India? Is there merit to the claim that Israel represents the worst of the West? A strong strain of anti-Semitism today originates in the claim that Israel is a colonialist imposition on Palestine, displacing and exploiting the local population.

Life is full of markers telling you that you are getting older. The Bar or Bat Mitzvah is one. High school graduation, another. Then college graduation, a full-time job, marriage, your first child, a mortgage. On and on it goes. Life is also full of signposts telling you that you are not getting older, but — rather — that you are now old. Full stop. Old. I ran into one of those the other day. “Here, sit here,” a man on a bus at the airport said as I got on with The Wife, kindly offering me his seat.

The world’s greatest decoy is before our very eyes, and many in the world are falling for it. Asleep at the wheel. Israel the terrible! Israel the evil! Israel the monster! In reality, real savages butchered civilians en masse, even perversely and proudly filming it. But then, in classic projection when people are actually describing themselves, they flip the narrative. They point the finger at the victim — the villain in the story. And the world falls for it.