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.

‘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.

‘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.

‘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. 

Interviews with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz on the Jewish legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, and film producer Jeanine Thomas on telling the story of Holocaust survivor Herbert Heller in the film, ‘The Optimist.’

Plus ‘My Two Shekels’, when IJN staff share what’s on their mind, including Larry Hankin’s dive into his story on Gabe Zeller, and Hillel Goldberg looks ahead to baseball season.

42% of Jewish students in college say they have experienced anti-Semitism according to a new American Jewish Committee report. The AJC's Laura Shaw Frank dives into the study & shares tips.

Plus on this day...US Olympic Gold & the Sounds of Silence.

The Love Rabbi, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath, joins the IJN Cast this week, ahead of an event in Boulder. 

And staying with Boulder, ADL Mountain States Director Susan Rona reflects on June 1, 2025, expanding on her interview in this week’s IJN.

Ilana Kaufman, CEO of Jews of Color Initiative, talks with the IJN Cast during the Denver stop on her nationwide listening tour. 

Plus — on this day, the city of Phoenix was incorporated — in 1881.

‘I am spreading the value of being proud of being Jewish and living by our Jewish values . . . What did we learn from the Holocaust? What did we learn about being decent? Respectful?’ — Holocaust survivor Barbara Steinmetz, who was injured last June in the firebombing of Run For Their Lives Boulder. And audio from survivor Osi Sladek, who also spoke at the Capitol on Jan. 27 in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Plus ‘My Two Shekels’, when IJN staff share what’s on their mind.

Lukas Klement, who just finished a 621-mile ride from Auschwitz and back as a tribute to the people who were murdered there, joins the IJN Cast.

Plus:

‘It doesn’t seem like it’s about making a better reality for Palestinians; it feels like it’s about hating Israel’ — Shana Goldberg on the IJN editorial on whether there is a difference between pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel