Category: Letters

By Margie Coles, , Seattle Thank you for your coverage of author Gershom Gorenberg (”Unraveled from the jaws of victory," April 27) who spok

By David Shayne, , Seattle Last week, I attended a talk given by Gershom Gorenberg, who authored the nuanced and well-written "Accidental Empire,"

By Donna and John Mollan, , Anderson Island We read the article on the Titanic survivors ("

By Wendy Elisheva Somerson, , Seattle The article "A chronology of the cancelled invitations to gay and lesbian Israelis" (March 30) left out impo

By Mark Bloome, , Seattle We suffered a great public opinion defeat with the City of Seattle LGBT commission's egregiously bad decision not to meet

By Zach Carstensen, Director of Government Relations and Public Affairs, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Ron Leibsohn, Chair, Community Relation

By Rainer Waldman Adkins, , Seattle Philip Scheier writes ("An insult," letters, Feb. 29) that J Street "claims it is pro-Israel, a claim rejected

By Paula Libes Chester, , Mercer Island Dear Mr. Wilkes: Did you neglect to wear reading glasses when you perused my letter bemoaning "wasted tomat

By Philip R. Scheier, , Shoreline Your Feb. 10 article by Emily K. Alhadeff, "Moving beyond the one-trick pony," where the University of Washingto

By Robert B. Godwin, , Lacey In the previous issue of JTNews is a review by Edward Alexander of Michael Weingrad's marvelous work, American Hebrew

By Robert Wilkes, , Bellevue In Paula Chester's letter ("Wasted tomatoes," Feb. 10) she states that my column ("Barghouti's Own Life Reveals BDS D

By Mark D. Blitzer, , Seattle I applaud the opening of a Jewish delicatessen in Olympia ("Olympia deli tickles mind, soul and stomach," Feb. 10).

By Rabbi Oren J. Hayon, Greenstein Family Executive Director, Hillel UW I was grateful to see the editorial by Wayne L. Firestone, Hillel's preside

By Paula Libes Chester, , Mercer Island I am frankly puzzled by Robert Wilkes's extensive dissection of Omar Barghouti's January 5 talk at our loca

By Barbara Cooper, , Anacortes I am very disappointed in your response to Martin Jaffee's article about Myron Cohon ("To the family of Myron Cohon

By Perry Weinberg, , Seattle I was saddened and disappointed to read that Professor Martin Jaffee will no longer be writing his column for this pap

By Paul Baenen, , Seattle Undoubtedly Jaffee made errors (To the family of Myron Cohon and our community). Nothing excuses William Cohon's "he occu

By Sidney Stock, , Bellevue Martin Jaffee blew it. Jaffee used an individual's life and death to illustrate a continuing concern of the Jewish comm

By Hillary Lipe, , Seattle Thank you for the letter addressed to Myron Cohon, his family, and the community, published in JTNews on Fri., Dec. 23,

By Keith Cohon, , Seattle I'm sorry, but while I appreciate your apologies (To the family of Myron Cohon and our community), you have still missed