By Rachel Goldberg , JTA World News Service There's a lot of noise about health care — wildly false claims, meetings being disrupted, shrill voice
Read MoreBy Larry Greenfield , JTA World News Service Government insurance for health care — the public option — is an inappropriate cure that the American
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Sculptor and glass artist Gabriel Bass, a Mercer Island native now living in Jerusalem, recently completed and
Read MoreBy Edith Isaacs Ervin, , Mercer Island Enough with this gay-schmay stuff ("Gay Israelis reeling after shooting attack," Aug. 7)! If we are intent
Read MoreBy Robert Center, , Seattle As the chair of the advisory board to the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, I was pleased
Read MoreBy Chaplain Gary Friedman, , Seattle The last issue of the JTNews carried an ad from a pair of restaurants highlighting their "Kosher Deli Meats (P
Read MoreBy Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz, West Seattle Torah Learning Center I'm a story junkie. As a child I was always an avid reader and I haven't lost my
Read MoreBy Stephen J. Savitsky , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — I was most privileged on July 13 to be invited along with 16 other Jewish leaders
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I don't know when I started noticing this or maybe once I did notice it, I just started to no
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Harry Rutstein's book, The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World, recently w
Read MoreBy Josh Basson , , Seattle I strongly disagree with Gila Orkin's one-sided column ("
Read MoreBy Philip R. Scheier, , Shoreline The fact that your lead story in the July 24 issue, headlined, "A prophet for peace or a wedge between peacemaker
Read MoreBy Dexter Van Zile, Christian Media Analyst CAMERA, Boston, Mass. Contrary to Naim Ateek's assertion, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Rep
Read MoreBy Rabbi James L. Mirel , Temple B'nai Torah The Book of Jonah (read as the Haftarah on Yom Kippur afternoon) is a constant source of wisdom and
Read MoreBy Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Northwest Yeshiva High School graduate Matthew Feldhammer is now doing graduate research in biochemistry at the
Read MoreBy Gila Orkin , JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — The gains made by far-right parties across Europe in the recent European parliamentary el
Read MoreBy Jenna Sytman , , Mercer Island Mr. Rothschild's June 26 letter to the editor is a highly flawed argument that uses a concept most hold in contem
Read MoreBy Jeremy Alk, , Seattle I think there is an additional reason for Tree of Life being in jeopardy ("Losing its leaves?" July 10): The closing of L
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Helene Israel tells me she was so consumed mourning her late husband, Jerry, that she never put an obituary in
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