Category: Letters

By Jack Fackerell, , Redmond I want to respond to the article written by Tzippy Wiens titled "Killing Animals" (Jew-ish Magazine, Dec. 23). I real

By Alan L. Barer, , Kirkland Thank you for your article in the November 25 edition by Diana Brement about Sharon Kaufman-Osborn of Whitman College

By Betsy R. Schneier, Past President, Washington State Jewish Historical Society, Seattle On behalf of executive board of the Washington State Jewi

By Eric Leibman, , Portland Re: The article Jewish agencies will support marriage equality (Nov. 25). Wow. Another good reason not to give a dime t

By Lisa Schuchman, , Seattle Thank you for the Books, Movies, Music and Food section from November 18! While reading it I moved to my computer to r

By Robert G. Kaufman, , Seattle Here are some observations on the Olympia Food Co-op boycott controversy described in the Nov. 11 issue of JTNews (

By Kate Lesser, , Seattle The "Books," etc. edition of the JTNews (Nov. 18) has just arrived. I would prefer not to see a picture of a swastika, a

By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Joel Magalnick for his perceptive column "Seattleites win education prize" (Nov. 11) as very informative. Glad

By Nevet Basker, , Bellevue I congratulate Rabbi Kinberg on her insightful column ("We need to let the world know how we really feel about Israel,"

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Your front page article by Uriel Heilman ("Shalit deal was best Israel was going to get," Oct. 14) was quite informative

By Rabbi Anson Laytner, , Seattle Does the Israeli government — or ours for that matter — see the sad irony in opposing votes at the UN regarding t

By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Mervyn Danker for his perceptive op-ed column ("A Palestinian state should be the result of negotiations," Sep

By Cynthia Wroclawski, Manager, The Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In response to Eric Nusbaum's article of Sept. 13,

By Mordecai Goldstein, , Everett I agree with the letter writer ("Taking up too much space," Sept. 16) who said we must not permit agents of our e

By Bob Kaufman, , Seattle In his stirring speech to the Sept. 18 StandWithUs gathering, Rabbi Daniel Gordis criticized American Jewish leaders for

By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle If it weren't an Orwell-worthy twist of language interpretation, re: letter writer N. Goldberg's claim that I am "n

By N. Goldberg, , Bellevue Mr. Segan's letter ("A free and open press," Sept. 2) evades the issue, and begs for a reply. He is not about free spee

By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle As an occasional-to-frequent pro-Israel advocate in the JTNews letters section — my first letter on Israel and the

By Goldie Gendler Silverman, , Seattle In a letter on August 19 ("No more criticism"), Michael Behar asked, "Would it be too much to expect that W

By Jerry Shulkin, , Mercer Island I most recently attended an elaborate and impressive Bat Mitzvah. That prompted my daughter to ask about my Bar M