Category: Letters

By Jason Feirman, Senior Marketing Manager Jewish National Fund, Thank you for your great piece about the importance of planting trees and greening

By Josh Basson , , Seattle There is little doubt that Israel is morally justified in its offensive war against Hamas. No nation can sit by and allo

By H. Eric Schockman, Ph.D. , President, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, For the past seven years, you have joined together as a community to s

By Rabbi Charna Klein , , Seattle Regarding Diana Brement's M.O.T. column ("Journalist is lay leader of Whidbey NAS," Dec. 19, 2008): The story ab

By Rainer Waldman Adkins, Barbara Lahav , Seattle chapter, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Seattle Members of the Seattle chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom (Je

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews, Karen Chachkes, Publisher, JTNews, Seattle As the year draws to a close, all of us at the JTNews and jew-ish.com

By Josh Basson , , Seattle I am outraged by the recent radical Islamic terrorists massacre of innocent civilians that occurred in Mumbai, India. In

By Ken Shiovitz , , Seattle Regarding the political cartoon by Steve Greenberg in which Senator Joe Lieberman heads alone into the wilderness as a

By Albert A. Feldmann , , Seattle Thanks for the excellent article by Noah S. Friedland ("The demise of land for peace," Nov. 28). He has pointed

By Alvin J. Ziontz , , Bellevue Robert Wilkes begins with the strange assertion that "America is British, not French" ("Why Jews Are Democrats, an

By Robert and Gail Stagman , , Mercer Island With all due respect for Rabbi Kletenik, we believe his reasoning on Initiative 1000 ("Life is sacred,

By Midge Levy , , Seattle I applaud Rabbi Laytner's letter on the Death with Dignity Initiative ("Freedom of Choice," Oct. 17) in which he offers

By Philip R. Scheier , , Shoreline There are growing questions surrounding the real sponsorship of the deceptive anti-Israel I-97 petition being pe

By The Board of Rabbis , Va'ad HaRabbanim of Greater Seattle , The Va'ad policies for produce checking were formulated after months of investigatio

By George Guttmann , , Seattle Your recent article about I-97 ("Taking initiative," July 25) classified the opponents of this initiative as "pro I

By Lawernce Black , Maccabi Arms , Reno, Nev. The purpose of our [gun sales] ad appearing in the JTNews at the time of the Haq trial was precisely

By Keith Ljunghammar , , Seattle Your newspaper looks very interesting, but the article from the last publication ("Taking initiatve," July 25) wa

By Allen M. Gown, M.D. , , Seattle So the Va'ad would like to prevent us from accidentally ingesting insects with our food ("The food network," Ju

By Rev. Barry Keatin, Maplewood Presbyterian Church , Edmonds My name is the Rev. Barry Keating and I am the minister of Maplewood Presbyterian Chu

By Benjamin Pollock , , San Francisco, Calif. Jewish progressives like Richard Silverstein need to return to their roots and rediscover who is the