IJN Cast

S4 E16 ~ 5/14/26

Thu, 14 May 2026 19:00:00 -0600

‘It’s the end of an era . . . He was a compassionate and passionate guy,’ reflects Barry Curtiss-Lusher on the passing of Abe Foxman, former ADL chief.

Penny Nisson on the origin of her life as an artist, and Dr. David Bryfman of the Jewish Education Project.

S4 E15 ~ 5/7/26

Thu, 07 May 2026 19:00:00 -0600

Audio testimony from the Boulder courthouse today, where the man who attacked Run For Their Lives last year in Boulder plead guilty and was sentenced in court. Prior to sentencing, District Court Chief Judge Nancy Salomone said: “I conclude that the most serious sentences available under the law are the appropriate ones.”

Plus, what happened when a Torah was mistakenly dropped at the HEA during services on May 2; and Mitch Siegler of THINC joins the IJN Cast to discuss a legal complaint lodged against the national teachers’ union.

S4 E14 ~ 4/30/26

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:00:00 -0600

‘Education is the number one way forward . . . I believe that the average person does not really understand the lived experience of Jewish students, even the average administrator,’ says Hillel International’s Jon Falk, whose op-ed appears on page 4 of this week’s IJN this week.

Plus, My Two Shekels!

S4 E13 ~ 4/24/26

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:00:00 -0600

‘I would love to have a chance to win another national championship,’ says junior Sam Harris, the DU Pioneer who just won his second Frozen Four NCAA championship.

Plus Larry Hankin on Shelly Shem Tov’s recent appearance in Denver, speaking about her experience as a mother of a hostage.

S4 E12 ~ 4/16/26

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:00:00 -0600

Agi Day, child Holocaust survivor:

“We were four when we went into hiding . . . I remember quite a bit. Children of war experience things differently . . . Hiding in the cellars, being told that I had to have a different name . . . ”

The guest speaker at the April 15 ADL Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance Program joins the IJN Cast.

S4 E11 ~ 3/26/26

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:00:00 -0600

‘It’s hard to prepare yourself to bear witness to something that is in your own community’ — Emily Elconin, who photographed Temple Israel in West Bloomfield a week after it was firebombed in an anti-Semitic attack.

Plus My Two Shekels, where IJN staff share thoughts on everything from the war in Iran, freed hostages, the senses of Passover and TSA.

S4 E10 ~ 3/12/26

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:00:00 -0600

‘We are on the precipice… if you‘re able to change Iran of creating a new Middle East order, a la post WW II‘ says Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, executive director, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, who breaks down the US-Israel Iran War.

Plus Adele Goldberg of Friends of Yad Sarah on providing medical support during military conflict.

S4 E9 ~ 3/6/26

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:00:00 -0700

‘I guess what goes around comes around,‘ says Denverite Dr. Robert Salehrabi, who fled Iran 40 years ago. ‘Cyrus the Great freed the Jews from the bondage of Babylonia, and now the Jewish people of Israel are returning the favor to help their Persian friends.‘

Plus Elena Neuman, producer of ‘Looking Up‘ about Eitan Armon who climbed El Capitan, despite his Retinitis Pigmentosa.