Category: Letters

By Jeremy Miller, , Seattle John Rothschild offers a provocative perspective on the financial issues faced by the Jewish Federation (Letters, June

By Rabbi Bernie Fox, Head of School Northwest Yeshiva High School, In a recent letter to the JTNews titled "Double standards" (June 26), the write

By Steve Krafchick, , Seattle If what John Rothschild reports is truly the admissions policy of the [day schools], then I want to weigh in and supp

By Rabbi David Twersky, , Seattle John Rothschild's "brilliant" suggestion (Letters, June 26) as to how to partially solve the Jewish Federation's

By Pinchas Zohav , , Bellevue Israel is probably more safe from nuclear attack than most any location on the planet. The obvious fact is that if Ir

By Murray A. Marcus, , Seattle In your issue of June 12, 2009, you wrote "Please stay away." I think that was the wrong message. They stayed away

By Alice Woldt, Transitional Executive Director, Washington Association of Churches The member denominations and institutions of the Washington Ass

By Tammy Kaiser, , Seattle resident of a nearby barracks. There are not sufficient words to describe the feeling of singing "Hatikvah" overlooking

By John Rothschild, , Seattle In the last issue of JTNews, there was an article on the funding crisis for the Jewish Federation ("Federation offici

By Rabbi Vicki Hollander, Congregation Shaareth Israel, Lubbock, TX In my 14 years in the rabbinate in the Pacific Northwest I had the pleasure to

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Leslie Susser's insightful front page column was quite informative ("Is Hamas reassessing its strategy?" May 29). Hamas

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Michael J. Jordan's insightful front page column was quite informative ("Was Durban II a success or failure?" May 1.) It

By Ginamarie Emanuel, , Seattle I was delighted that Jerusalem Camp at the Rainbow Gathering was featured in Leyna Krow's excellent article "Ten Je

By Gail Broder, , Seattle Thanks so much for the article about where to find good falafel and other Middle Eastern food in Seattle ("Piece of the M

By Salaam Bhatti, , Central Islip, NY I read the article "Questions about Judaism" (April 3) by Janis Siegel that was about the interfaith day at

By Josh Basson, , Seattle In 2005, Israel gave up all of Gaza with hopes for peace. Indeed, Israel evacuated 9,000 Israeli civilians from Gaza. Wha

By Laurie Warshal Cohen, Ed.D, Co-Executive Director, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, Seattle The story of hidden children i

By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle The puff piece on McKenna (March 6)failed to ask him some pertinent questions. For example, what is he actually doin

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Your glowing obituary on Eileen Mintz, of blessed memory ("Everybody's best friend," Feb. 6), was an accurate portrayal

By Jan Lewinsohn, , Seattle With regard to special mention of Eileen Mintz's "Best Rugelach" recipe ("Your choice: The Best of Everything," Feb 6