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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s a name that may be well-suited to a great Italian painter or a powerful star of the Italian opera,
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As Israel continues to lead the way in several biotech industries, a small, independent Herzliya-based video tech firm, Extreme Reality, has stumbled
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Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Washington State Court of Appeals has thrown out a lawsuit filed in Sept. 2011 by five Olympia Food Co
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound It’s almost inevitable when we travel, or have visitors come to town, that they will ask the same quest
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s a college student’s dream scenario: Science class in a bar — with no tests. There’s no telling how
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By Ty Alhadeff, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies It has been 40 years since Dr. Rina Benmayor visited Seattle to record romansas (ballads) among lo
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By Dikla Tuchman, Jewish Sound Correspondent “A good divorce is better sometimes than trying to share the same house,” Stanley Wulf told his audien
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If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Passover this year, many of our local synagogues and organizations across the state will be hosting seders. W
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Tori Gottlieb, Special to The Jewish Sound Thirty-six years ago, Beit Hatfutsot — literally, “House of the Diaspora” — opened in Tel Aviv. The muse
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Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Capping a year-long effort to repair and re-scribe its Torah while celebrating its 10th anniversary, Congr
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Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor This story complements the JTNews’ new podcast, “A Freilechen Seattle,” available here or at the iTunes store. S
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews With seven months and two major events under his belt, Keith Dvorchik is beginning to feel like he's getting his
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Richelle Willner Martin and Gabi Benisti hold the trophy from their victory at the national Jewish Unity Mentorin
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Who is a Jew? This oft-pondered, never sufficiently answered question was the topic of a recent thre
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By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews With another session in Olympia now behind us, JTNews asked the members of Washington State's Jewish caucus to g
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Bernie Glassman is widely known within Zen Buddhist communities as one of its masters. However, he takes facets o
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By , JNS.org We all recognize the taste of poppy seed or jam when we bite into hamantaschen on Purim. But given the right filling, or dough, the tr
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