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By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews It’s a drizzly Sunday night, and the social hall of the Church of Hope in Columbia City is bu

By , JTNews Correspondent The class trip to Northwest Harvest was part of JDS’ Mitzvah Days, which included the student council and middle sc

By Chavie Lieber , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — After graduating from a Modern Orthodox high school in New York, Yoseph Needelman moved

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Given that only nine countries voted outright against the Palestinian bid for observer status at the United Nati

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent Soon after the former Palestinian "entity" was upgraded to non-member observer state status in the recent U

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Who says our Christian friends have to have all the fun on December 25th? Sure, they get the tree, the new toys

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Assimilation, growing anti-Semitism, terrorism, a nuclear threat, war in Israel — news around the w

By Gwen Davis , Special to JTNews Life is about work, school, friends, hobbies and at least one cup of coffee every morning for basic survival. But

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent "You know Josh’s story? I’d love to have more Mr. Gortlers!" said Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, d

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent More than a decade after they last appeared in Seattle, Melton School courses have returned. As of next mont

By Eileen Goltz , Special to JTNews First and foremost, the Twinkie has never been kosher, so missing it isn’t really an issue for me. Howeve

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews It’s November, time for the completely subjective, overly opinionated, highly unprofessional a

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Everyone, as Andy Warhol put it, gets their 15 minutes of fame. But what’s more enriching, and without the