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By David Chivo, Special to The Jewish Sound Our “mirror, mirror on the wall” moment has arrived. The Jewish Federation’s 2014 Greater Seattle Commu
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By Mayim Bialik, Kveller/JTA World News Service I grew up in a public school that had enough Jewish kids that I felt represented. I went to Hebrew
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By Maital Friedman NEW YORK (JTA) -- The events of the last few weeks have shaken me to the core. Beyond the devastation I felt over the deaths of
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By Daniel S. Mariaschin, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Before the HarperCollins Middle East atlas story is deleted from email inboxes,
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By Rabbi Marc D. Angel, Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals The Shabbat of Hanukkah was observed among Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire as “Shabba
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By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Special to the Jewish Sound “Bringing down Israel will really benefit everyone in the world and everyone in society, p
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By Rabbi Seth Goldstein, Special to JTNews One of my challenges as a rabbi is to make Judaism relevant across demographics. Part of the cha
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