Category: Letters

By Kayla Weiner, , Seattle I read with interest your article about housing and the Jewish community ("Yes for homes!" Sept. 11). I am glad you men

By Eileen Weintraub, , Seattle Your column in defense of kaparot was so upsetting I am just getting the strength to write now ("What's Your JQ?" S

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Ron Kampeas's insightful front page column was quite informative ("Iran policy reveals split between U.S. Jewish and Isra

By Janice E. Tufte, Islamic Civic Engagement Coalition, Seattle During this reflective time around your Yom Kippur and just after my Islamic Eid Al

By Kayla Weiner, Ph.D. , , Seattle I was shocked and offended by the letter to the editor ("Broad Goals," Aug. 21). To the best of my knowledge th

By Sasha Parsley, Western Washington University student, Kirkland I am deeply disturbed that the JTNews chose to publish the objectionable and narr

By Margaret Lemberg, , Seattle All of the evidence that I know of strongly supports the notion that sexual orientation is not a choice, but inborn.

By Susan Benyowitz, , Los Angeles, Calif. In your article "First Stop: Seattle" (Aug. 21) you neglected to mention that Federal Election Commissio

By Jack Fackerell, , Redmond I would like to remind Edith Isaacs Ervin that the recent murders of gays in Tel Aviv were tragic losses to our entire

By Jeffrey Weiser , , Redmond It isn't easy to be a Jewish liberal these days. You agree with all your non-Jewish liberal friends on everything: Go

By Edith Isaacs Ervin, , Mercer Island Enough with this gay-schmay stuff ("Gay Israelis reeling after shooting attack," Aug. 7)! If we are intent

By Robert Center, , Seattle As the chair of the advisory board to the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, I was pleased

By Chaplain Gary Friedman, , Seattle The last issue of the JTNews carried an ad from a pair of restaurants highlighting their "Kosher Deli Meats (P

By Edward Alexander, , Seattle A main reason why President Obama nominated Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is that he believed she would be "

By Josh Basson , , Seattle I strongly disagree with Gila Orkin's one-sided column ("

By 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

By Dexter Van Zile, Christian Media Analyst CAMERA, Boston, Mass. Contrary to Naim Ateek's assertion, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Rep

By 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

By 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

By Hilary Bernstein & Richard Fruchter, Director, Pacific Northwest Anti-Defamation League & President & CEO Jewish Federation of Greater