By Michael Natkin, JTNews Columnist This refreshing celery and fennel salad is a riff on one that I had at Bastille in Ballard. Their celery salad had tiny pumpernickel croutons and baby artichokes. The one I’ve got for you today has fennel instead of the artichokes, and shaved frozen blueContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist “I’m completely non-practicing and in fact a (polite) atheist with a very dim view of religion in general,” jazz radio host Dick Stein averred in an email when I contacted him for an interview. I assured him I couldn’t care less. What I wanted toContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist It’s only a tiny percentage point of difference, but new diabetes research from Tel Aviv University shows that a seemingly insignificant difference in blood sugar readings could buy you a lot of valuable time — and maybe even save your life. In January 2014, researchersContinue Reading
America is a mobile society, and a lot of people have moved away from the hometowns where their sports loyalties initially formed.Continue Reading
Rabbi Berry Farkash, Chabad of the Central Cascades It was a spring evening in the mid-’60s; a group of young students from NYU came for a private audience with the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. The group was mostly young boys and girls from secular homes who wantedContinue Reading
There’s something magnetic about the Beatles and so much that is still so universal about their music.Continue Reading
In response to “Ariel Sharon: A depreciation,” Jan. 24. According to Alden Oreck on Jewish Virtual Library: The Israeli attack on Qibya, Jordan, came against the backdrop of repeated cross-border attacks by Jordanians on Israeli civilians in the years after Israel’s War of Independence. After the June 1949 cease-fire betweenContinue Reading
Joel Magalnick’s interview with Andy Stern, former president of Service Employees International Union (“Where the next jobs won’t come from,” Jan. 24), was illuminating. Mr. Stern is accurate, I think, about the challenges he sees for American workers, but admits to being clueless about where we are headed. Mr. SternContinue Reading
The opinions expressed by Rabbi Anson Laytner in JTNews (“Ariel Sharon: A depreciation,” Jan. 24) are very wrong. The actions of Ariel Sharon on behalf of the state of Israel should be applauded, not criticized. As a 14-year-old, he joined the Haganah to protect his country. As head of UnitContinue Reading
I read that the Jews were pushing gun control (“Injured Congresswoman, Jewish leaders speak on behalf of gun control initiative”). Please remind them what Hitler and Stalin did to their population. They first restricted gun ownership, then confiscated the guns. We all know what happened afterward and if you believeContinue Reading
By Rabbi Janine Schloss , Temple Beth Am After having lived most of my life in California, New York, and New Jersey, I took a job in 1993 in St. Louis, Missouri. I had never lived in the Midwest, and St. Louis has a touch of the Southern in itsContinue Reading
By Mark Bloome , Special to JTNews Jews who love language, read this! Jews who love their families, read this! It is simple: Throughout the world Jew-hatred is spreading and those who hate us are winning the war of words, and in such a war, words count. We are saddledContinue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Joshua Friedes says he’ll be able to use a lot of what he learned championing marriage equality in this state in his new job as director of regional operations and strategy at J Street. The pro-Israel organization supports a two-state solution for Israel andContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist It’s called “microencapsulation” and by the year 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, World Hunger, and other international food programs plan to combat world hunger and malnutrition by fortifying some of the most widely used condiments and seasonings with micronutrients and vitamins. The WHO’sContinue Reading
By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist Hopefully we are at a point now where it is no longer considered a faux pas to actually cook a vegetable. I know there was a time when all vegetables were indiscriminately boiled to death. Then came the rebellion, and all vegetables had toContinue Reading
By Ed Harris, JTNews Columnist What if I never moved from New Jersey to Seattle with my wife and then-infant daughter over 20 years ago? How might life have been different if we remained in the New York area? This thought occurred over winter break on a trip to BocaContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Once in a while, even a reporter likes to be interviewed confesses KIRO radio human interest reporter Rachel Belle, whose “Ring My Belle with Rachel Belle” airs weekdays during the Ron and Don Show — for which she is also an on-air personality — andContinue Reading
By Dan Schueftan , JTA World News Service (JTA) — Ariel Sharon turned into a statesman late in his political career. Two developments made this possible: First, Sharon learned the hard way what he needed to do to become an effective leader of the Jewish state, and second, Israeli politicalContinue Reading
By Rabbi Anson Laytner , Special to JTNews It has been said in many recent articles that the late Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, who died Jan. 11 after being in a coma for many years, was either loved or loathed. I, however, am clear in my feelings: I comeContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I have had enough. Even if I’m the only person in Seattle who was hoping we didn’t get into the Super Bowl, so be it. I refuse to get swept up by this base, pagan, vile, vacuous and raucous endeavor. ItContinue Reading
