Category: Opinion

By Dr. Rafael Medoff , Special to JTNews "What is there to give thanks for, anyway?" That was the provocative question posed by the featured spea

By Daniel S. Mariaschin , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — How's this for a philosophical question: Can you hold a conference dedicated t

By Fred Scherlinder Dobb and Terry Gips , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — With a tradition thousands of years old, Judaism informs us o

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews This is the third in a series of articles by Robert Wilkes, who hopes to convince Seattle-area Jews that it i

By Julie Pham , New America Media SEATTLE—If every vote counts, why are political candidates doing so little to reach out to Washington state's si

By Ruth Messinger , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, many of us are haunted by the ubiquitous liturgical r

By Rose Yu , Special to JTNews Editor's note: This article was written by Rose Yu in response to the Aug. 20 issue's M.O.T.: Member of the Tribe c

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews There's going to come a time in the not-so-distant future that the news of a food cooperative or some company d

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews This is the second in a series of columns by Robert Wilkes, who has taken upon himself the nearly hopeless ta

By Philip Gerson , Special to JTNews From May 25—June 5, I joined in a Compassionate Listening Project delegation to Israel-Palestine, where I spe

By Robert Kaufman , Special to JTNews Events in the Middle East have a Northwest element to them. The Corrie family of Olympia, whose daughter Rac

By Yariv Oppenheimer , Special to JTNews Nearly two weeks ago, Israel marked a new low point in the way it chose to contend with its domestic and

By Michael Oren , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (Jewish Exponent) — Israel's interception of the flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockad

By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews Let's get it out and get it over with. I am a Jewish Republican. When my relatives found out, they sat shiva

By Robert Beiser , Special to JTNews Our event a few weeks back starts off sounding a bit like a joke: A sheikh, a rabbi, and a Christian professo

By Rainer Waldman Adkins and Teri Citterman , Special to JTNews I looked up, and I saw a man holding a measuring line. "Where are you going?" I a

By David Harris , JTA World News Service carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and dozens of other officials crashed in the Katyn Fo

By Leyna Krow , Assistant Editor, JTNews I'm about to make a controversial statement. It's a personal matter, but I think it still might ruffle a

By Ilana Cone Kennedy , Special to JTNews I work at a Holocaust Center. My daily language consists of the most obscene of numbers, concentration c

By Nevet Basker , Special to JTNews Much has been written in recent weeks about the announcement of new construction permits in Jerusalem. The tim