Category: Letters

By Randy Kessler, , Mercer Island The debate between Joel Alperson (Judaism is more than tikkun olam," Aug. 5) and Eric Yoffie ("Judaism is always

By Michael Behar, , Seattle Week after week, month after month, in articles, op-eds and letters, the very legitimacy of the State of Israel is batt

By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Anav Silverman for her perceptive op-ed column ("No yellow brick road for Palestinian UN bid," July 8) as righ

By Tani Zarelli, , Vancouver, Wash. In response to Simcha Shtull's comments on Israel controlling the lives of 2.5 million Palestinians ("Israel mu

By Jeff Morton, , Gig Harbor As a black American who keeps a watchful eye on Middle East anything, the person from Seattle who writes: "Israel curr

By Simcha Shtull, , Seattle Israel currently controls the lives of 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank. I therefore find it difficult to unde

By Joseph Schvimmer, , Pikesville, Md. As an infrequent visitor to the area I was interested in the JTNews and the opinions expressed in the letter

By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle Just back from my seventh Israel teaching trip and read my favorite JTNews section: Letters. Re: Mr. Israel Kochin'

By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle Mr. Wilkes' response to my recent letter begins with an oleaginous politeness, thanking me for my "thoughtful letter

By Robert Kaufman, , Seattle On May 11 I was escorted out of Temple De Hirsch Sinai, where I had signed up to attend a lecture by Prof. John Esposi

By Dr. Jerry Barrish, , Seattle I have followed the series of letters on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict going back and forth over the last severa

By Robert Wilkes, , Bellevue My thanks to Carole Glickfeld for her thoughtful letter ("World view," May 13) about my column, ("American Jews are T

By Larry Broder, Executive Director, Temple De Hirsch Sinai Temple De Hirsch Sinai has a 112-year tradition of leadership in social action, civil r

By Josh Basson, , Seattle I am disappointed by Obama's speech calling for Israel to return to its pre-1967 lines as the basis for a two-state solut

By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle I was amused and also a bit dismayed by Robert Wilkes's chauvinistic piece on why Americans (not to mention Jews) ar

By Israel Kochin, , New York, N.Y. The editors of JTNews recently published a letter ("Taking Sides," Letters, April 29) attacking my mother, Roch

By Judy Blinder, , Seattle I applaud Rabbi Mirel's effort to encourage nonaffiliated Jews in the greater Seattle area to join a Jewish community in

By Rocky Silverman, , Rocky Silverman Dr. Baskin believes a fair peace between Palestinian Arabs and Israel is best achieved by arguing equality an

By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle Re: Rochelle Kochin's letter, ("A Moral Compass," April 15): Thanks. If Ms. Kochin cannot see any moral wrong in t

By Josh Basson, , Seattle I was appalled to read Fred Ferate's distorted letter ("The constant struggle," April 15). He erroneously states that I