By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, A friend of mine is getting married this fall and came to me with some questions about the we
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It was a quiet evening at home when Arlene G. Cohen's husband Steve turned to her and said, "Do you want to mov
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A native of our fair state, Sheila (Schain) Stuart, has just completed a term as mayor of Cambridge, England. B
Read MoreBy Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist They're out there at their keyboards, typing out their thoughts for you. Writing daily, weekly, or when they ha
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I confess: I became drawn in and addicted to the Casey Anthony trial. There is something capt
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Remembering the "feeling of fear and isolation" that haunted her as a child in Rochester during her own mother
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Supporters and clients of Jewish Family Service in Seattle are already aware of the construction project that h
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am being urged by just about everyone I know to get on Facebook. My friends are threatening
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist In 1975 at age 16, and a student at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Rob Rose spent eight months in Calcutta
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, We are getting newly involved in Judaism, thanks to our little one being enrolled in a Jewish
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist There's a new organization in town — and around the country. Founded by local philanthropist Mark Bloome, TAP-A
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist "I covered the story from the beginning...in early 2007," says "barefoot bandologist" Jackson Holtz. The Hera
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A self-described "small-town kid from Vashon," Gary Johnson feels like he's come a long way to his recent appo
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, It's as if I'm paralyzed when I think about this year's Pesach. I am unable to plan or to get
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The challenge of being a dietician, says Lorren Negrin, is how people perceive her profession as a bunch of peo
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Just a few months into her first year at Whitman College, Talia Rudee started a chapter of Challah for Hunger.
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we deliberate over summer plans for our family, the idea of sending the kids to a Jewish c
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Our region has been in a hubbub over radiation leaks from the earthquake-ravaged Japanese power plants and, it
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Seattle glass artist Roger Nachman in his studio with one of the "raindrops" from his "Joyful Rain" install
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It sounds like the start of a bad joke. A Saudi Arabian student comes to Seattle to attend a Catholic high scho
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