By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, The earthquake in Haiti really got me thinking. I donated to relief work — that was a given.
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I've wanted to interview Seattle Times food writer Nancy Leson for a long time, so I was very excited when we f
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By Diana Brement, Tahoma National Cemetery's chief bugler, Bernie Moskowitz. (Courtesy Bernie Moskowitz) It wasn't too hard to track down Bernie M
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A guilty secret: I'm hooked on "Hoarders," the new hit TV show on A&E. So it was great to find out it was conc
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Al Ziontz photo by Marianne McCoy "People urged me to write the book — specifically my wife," says Bellevu
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist With H1N1 so much in the news these days, I wanted to talk to someone on the front lines of fighting this new v
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Don Shifrin, M.D. was a tad nonchalant when I spoke to him about winning the American Academy of Pediatrics Hol
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A UW graduate is rubbing shoulders and leashes with some of Hollywood's most popular stars and their pets. Jaco
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Seven Washington residents are among hundreds of volunteers nationwide nominated for the first United Jewish Co
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Ilana Long is a funny person; and if you saw her perform stand-up comedy in the days before she had kids, you k
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, A non-Jewish person I work with came in this week with a very harsh criticism of a Jewish pra
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Sculptor and glass artist Gabriel Bass, a Mercer Island native now living in Jerusalem, recently completed and
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Harry Rutstein's book, The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World, recently w
Read MoreBy Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Northwest Yeshiva High School graduate Matthew Feldhammer is now doing graduate research in biochemistry at the
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Helene Israel tells me she was so consumed mourning her late husband, Jerry, that she never put an obituary in
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