Category: Letters

By David Rosenblum, , Seattle February is the anniversary of my partner's passing. For the last six years I asked the rabbi of a large temple to sa

By Mordecai Goldstein, , Everett I read what Rivy Poupko Kletenik wrote about how "our tradition urges us to innovate in prayer and create a blessi

By Rosi Meier Benz , , Harstine Island Today (Jan. 27) is Holocaust Remembrance Day, I heard the TV anchor voice say over the grinding of coffee be

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Ron Kampeas's insightful front page column was quite informative ("Clinton, lawmakers pushing for talks," Jan. 15). The

By Kate Lesser, , Seattle I just received the Jan. 15 edition of the JTNews. The front-page photo has a picture of a party. I was hoping for a pict

By Susan Monas, President, Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle As president of the board of Congregation Beth Shalom, I was dismayed to see the recen

By Richard Silverstein, , Seattle I would like to correct two errors in Leyna Krow's otherwise excellent report on the Iran-Israel conference I org

By Lawrence Black, , Seattle After reading the Jewish Federation's response to the Haq guilty verdict, I had the following angry reaction: I saw no

By Susan (Liebman) Benyowitz, , Los Angeles, Calif. Professor Ed Alexander's review of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower was extremely enlightenin

By Rachelle Baruch, , Cincinnati, Ohio I want to thank Yehuda Reinhartz for his lovely article ("The need to fill the holes," Nov. 27). I found it

By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle The new movie An Education is about a predator, a man who brings in black people to a neighborhood in order to scare

By Elliott Magalnick, , Denver, Colo. I read the article, or rather parts of the article "Holiday Stuffing" (Nov. 27), treats and eats for gifts,

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Leslie Susser's insightful front-page column was quite informative ("Implications of Israeli inquiry into Goldstone," Oc

By Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller, , Seattle I noticed on the front page of the October 30 JTNews a little note that said, "Celebrate Women! page 12." I t

By Marcia Rubenstein, , Silverdale Just wanted to say a great big thank you to everyone at JTNews who helped solve the problem of the missing ingre

By Suzette Cohen, , Steilacoom You are absolutely incorrect in your portrayal of Referendum 71. Everyone has the ability to make out a power of att

By Lisa E. Schuchman, , Seattle Thank you for your support of Referendum 71 (Editorial, Oct. 16). I agree that it is absurd to put people's happine

By William Arenstein, , Ramat Gan, Israel I was dismally shocked and horrified to see JTNews run an Op-Ed by Edwin Black a few weeks back that used

By Dr. Michael Spektor, , Bellevue The Islamic Republic of Iran is a despotic fundamentalist military dictatorship whose goal is hegemony in the Mi

By Dr. Richard Curtis, , Seattle I was puzzled by the story, "Answering questions on Iran" (Oct., 16) about the meeting at De Hirsch on "the Iran