By Jon Rosenberg and Lee Sherman , JTA World News Service charitable donations. Some 62.8 million volunteers in the United States provided more t
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By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist This past August found Henry Butler turning 90, and this past Purim found him pouring shots of schnapps, whisk
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I easily spotted Carolyn Bernhard's mass of gray curls on the TV monitor at my gym early last month. She and ot
Read MoreBy Zach Carstensen, Director of Government Relations and Public Affairs, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Ron Leibsohn, Chair, Community Relation
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, So much attention is lavished by all of us on the night of the seder; the meticulous prepara
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Recently named one of New York University's 15 most influential students, Chelsea Garbell was nominated primari
Read MoreBy Rainer Waldman Adkins, , Seattle Philip Scheier writes ("An insult," letters, Feb. 29) that J Street "claims it is pro-Israel, a claim rejected
Read MoreBy Paula Libes Chester, , Mercer Island Dear Mr. Wilkes: Did you neglect to wear reading glasses when you perused my letter bemoaning "wasted tomat
Read MoreBy Lori Weinstein and Lee Sherman , JTA World News Service (JTA) — Thirty years ago, a Jewish woman experiencing domestic violence had few places
Read MoreBy Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews If the leaders in Tehran hoped for signs of a U.S.-Israeli policy rift over the Iranian nuclear program, Presid
Read MoreBy Rabbi Cindy Enger , Congregation Beth Israel Several weeks ago, I traveled to New Jersey. I journeyed across the country from Bellingham to Pri
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Read MoreBy Rabbis Martin and Daniel Weiner , Special to JTNews We represent two generations of rabbis, five decades of love for the State of Israel and ad
Read MoreBy Robert B. Godwin, , Lacey In the previous issue of JTNews is a review by Edward Alexander of Michael Weingrad's marvelous work, American Hebrew
Read MoreBy Robert Wilkes, , Bellevue In Paula Chester's letter ("Wasted tomatoes," Feb. 10) she states that my column ("Barghouti's Own Life Reveals BDS D
Read MoreBy Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest, Congregation Shaarei Tefillah-Lubavitch It was the summer of 2008, on a Sh
Read MoreBy Rafael Medoff , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — The news that a Mormon temple in the Dominican Republic recently conducted a posthumo
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