Category: Letters

By Rabbi James Mirel, Co-chair, Seattle MAZON benefit, Seattle Thank you to the JTNews for co-sponsoring the annual MAZON Hanukkah benefit. Your be

By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle As a regular visitor to Israel to guest teach (six trips since 1999 — my next is this April) and as an American Jew

By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Joel Magalnick for his insighful article ("Provocative bus ads go to highest levels of county government," Dec

By Emily Weisberg, , Olympia Since a resolution in favor of divesting from the Israeli occupation of Palestine passed at Evergreen last year, tensi

By Hilda Maggie Weisberg, , Bellingham I am the grandmother of Emily Weisberg, whom you recently dubbed the "enemy," ("Letter to the enemy," Dec.

By Richard Fruchter, President, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Ron Leibsohn, Board Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, As we all kn

By Edward Alexander, , Seattle The most pertinent comment on the slanderous accusation approved by Metro for display on some of its buses was made

By Carolyn Hathaway, Co-Chair, StandWithUs Northwest, Bellevue Your article on "The hard conversation" at Evergreen State College is important ("E

By Robert Kaufman, , Seattle I am glad to see the JTNews giving the Evergreen issue the coverage it deserves ("Evergreen: The hard conversation not

By Sheryl Kipnis, , Seattle "Jewelry is something which can make even an ugly one beautiful." Seriously? I must be missing something here. Is this

By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle While Robert Wilkes is entitled to his opinion, it is incumbent upon JTNews to correct the misinformation and falseh

By Josh Basson, , Seattle News reports indicate that the Obama administration would like Israel to cede most of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to

By Fredric Tobis, , Mercer Island I write to respond to a blatant distortion of Senator Patty Murray's support for the State of Israel published in

By David S. Frockt, , Seattle Recently, the National Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) sponsored a full-page advertisement in the JTNews (Oct. 15)

By Miriam Schwartz Stuart and family, , Redmond Thank you for your article about our congregation ("Woodinville congregation holds its own through

By Akiva K. Segan, , Seattle In response to Mr. Basson's claim that I "do not realize that both Hamas and Fatah's charters call for the destruction

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Re: "Partner or not, we need to talk" (Letters, Oct.1), Akiva K. Segan writes, urging Israel to just keep talking whethe

By Leonard Kashner, , Seattle Zach Duitch, left, Andor Schvarcz and Congressman Dave Reichert The following will sound like a candidate endorseme

By Maurice Friedlander-Shaw, , Seattle ADL responded appropriately (Sept. 17) to Mr. John Rothschild's letter ("Blatant discrimination," Sept. 3),

By Jack Greenberg, , Seattle I personally, together with help from others in our own community and the Port Townsend Jewish community and an Edmond