To our readers and our community, By the time you read this, I’ll be a few days from my title being changed from Publisher and Editor to Last Man S
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By Shelley Adatto-Baumgarten, Jewish Sound Columnist Growing up Jewish-Turkish in Seattle, the eight-day festival of Passover was quite meaningful
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By David Chivo, Special to The Jewish Sound Our “mirror, mirror on the wall” moment has arrived. The Jewish Federation’s 2014 Greater Seattle Commu
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By Ed Harris, Jewish Sound Columnist Life is all about changes — including this column — as it will be my last one. It turns out I may have played
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By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist This latest research study from Tel Aviv University is pioneering because it’s one of a handful of studies
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Read MoreBy Edward Alexander, Special to the Jewish Sound “In the modern world, the Jew has perpetually been on trial; still today the Jew is on trial, in t
Read MoreBy Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist These green beans are perfect for a potluck; the beans themselves are blanched and shocked and then they
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