By Boris Kurbanov, Special to The Jewish Sound Last October, America’s favorite travel guru Rick Steves left for Israel with one goal: To “show bot
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist From May through October, we have a farmer’s market just a couple of blocks from my house. Our regular ri
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By Uriel Heilman JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — President Obama devoted the bulk of his U.N. speech to the fight against violent Islamic e
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Unites States needs to play hardball. When it engages in talks with Iran over its uranium enrichmen
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist Since 2002, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev virologist Dr. Leslie Lobel has been traveling to Africa mor
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By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service ANALYSIS NEW YORK (JTA) — The circus is coming to town. No, there won’t be marching elephants, lion
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By Ami Eden, JTA World News Service ANALYSIS NEW YORK (JTA) — President Obama did not mention Israel or the Palestinians during his address to t
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With 2014 marking our 90th anniversary, we decided to take a look back at our history to help you create your High Holiday menu. What you will find he
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By Anthony Weiss, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) -- For a few days this year, they clogged up our Facebook feeds and then, perhaps, our subcon
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Despite having to leave its building in Seattle’s Maple Leaf neighborhood after a six-year, post-recess
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Read MoreBy David Chivo, Special to The Jewish Sound The media is awash these days with coverage about the rise of anti-Semitism around the world. If we are
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound For those of us that live in or grew up in Seattle, “The Boys in the Boat” (Viking Penguin, paper) is e
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service ARLINGTON, Va. (JTA) -- The scene at Arlington National Cemetery last Friday was not quite routine, but
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