By Ed Harris Households across America this month celebrated Father’s Day. June, with its “Dads and Grads,” is probably a great month for Hallmark,
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Associated Students of Western Washington University’s board of directors, in an unprecedented move
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(JTA) -- Jewish groups predicted a rupture with Presbyterians in the wake of a close vote favoring divestment from three companies that deal with Isra
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News TEL AVIV (JTA) -- At 3:30 Shavuot morning, more than 100 people are seated on folding chairs singing in Yiddish as
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By Sean Savage, JNS.org For most Westerners, Iraq is a foreboding and dangerous place that is filled with extremists and daily violence. Yet as lit
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist As part of his U. S. brain initiative in 2014, President Obama visited Israel and learned about groundbreak
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By Boris Kurbanov, Special to the Jewish Sound Members of Seattle’s Jewish community gathered Wednesday, June 18 at the Stroum Jewish Community Cen
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By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist Green garlic is one of those wonderful farmer’s market ingredients. You don’t often see it at grocery store
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TORONTO (JTA) -- Canadians were evenly split in their support for Israel and the Palestinians, according to a new poll. The survey by the Toronto-b
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By Ben Sales, JTA World NewsTEL AVIV (JTA) -- Since the three teenagers were abducted last week, Israel's goals have been simple: Find them and punish
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Arab-Israeli Knesset member said the kidnappers of three Israeli teenagers are not terrorists."They are people that cannot see a
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By JNS.org As the days pass following the abduction of three Jewish teenagers near Hebron, the boys’ families are refusing to succumb to despair de
Read MoreBy Nurit Asnash, Special to the Jewish Sound I had never heard about BDS (the boycott, divest and sanctions movement against Israel) until about a
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As the World Cup begins its first week of intense competition, a group of Argentinian Jews are not just focusing on the soccer fields of Brazil, but
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By Ben Sales, JTA World News TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Blocks away from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the headquarters of two major banks, in the cor
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Henry Friedman had a message for the nearly 100 school-aged kids and their parents who sat in the shell
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I was immensely moved by both the story of triumph and loss in Rabbi Hayon’s recent piece on boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS), and his courage
Read MoreThank you Rabbi Hayon for an honest assessment of the risk of limiting our response to boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) and all criticism of I
Read MoreIt’s wonderful that UW students working together, with the support of Rabbi Oren Hayon, StandWithUs Northwest, and others, helped defeat the anti-Isra
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