By Keith Dvorchik, Special to the Jewish Sound I read with horror this week about the attack in a synagogue in Israel that left five dead, many inj
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By Ed Harris A Jewish friend of mine once described Thanksgiving as his favorite holiday. He said Thanksgiving is the only celebration of the seaso
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By Tziporah Heller Dear friends, Yesterday at about 7 a.m. my daughter Miri called. "Mordechai just came home from shul. He said that Arabs cam
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By Avi Weiss and Marc Angel NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Israeli government recently moved to decentralize the conversion system by allowing local courts
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist Spaghetti alla carbonara is one of those great Italian dishes that comes with multiple-choice apocryphal
Read MoreBy Rabbi Bernie Fox, Northwest Yeshiva High School Jewish education should no longer be marketed as the foundation of Jewish continuity. I have bee
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now epidemic, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologis
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Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I’m very disturbed by the “mikvah peeper” scandal in D.C. First of all, what is going to the m
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Every morning, Seattle mayor Ed Murray wakes up, walks his dog, then gets a report on what happened ove
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By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist There are a lot of reasons why Michele and Stan Rosen were named the 2014 outstanding philanthropic family
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist The evidence that our sleep time and quality is a significant factor in our health continues to mount. I
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By Ed Harris, Jewish Sound Columnist Whew! The cycle of major Jewish holidays has finally come to an end. The succession of celebrations and observ
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Read MoreBy Eugene Lipitz, Special to The Jewish Sound When my daughter Sophie went to Israel, one moment for her seemed a profoundly transformational expe
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By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist Steve Schwartz initially emailed me to say he’s “a Member of the Tribe who has found himself living and wo
Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent As Jews worldwide welcome the New Year with prayers to be entered in the “eternal” Book of Life, Israel
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By Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, Congregation Kol Ami For my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people. — Isaiah 56:7 For the past 15 year
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