By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist At the book launch party for "Horatio's One Wish," held at Seattle's Mockingbird Books, newly min
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist Panna cotta is a classic Italian dessert, traditionally made from cream and milk set with gelatin, which isn'
Read MoreBy Marc Schneier , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is correct to describe a new proposal by the Arab L
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By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist In Boston on April 15, as in Israel, when an improvised explosive device detonated onto a crowd of innocent civ
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist 1 I suspected Seattle-area traffic reporter Sprince Arbogast was Jewish because I assumed "Sprince" was a vari
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, The Boston Marathon bombing is just devastating and shocking, one more tragic life-changing m
Read MoreBy Rabbi Daniel A. Septimus, Temple De Hirsch Sinai I have a confession to make. It has been several months since I consistently visited Seward Pa
Read MoreBy Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle While Jews for Judaism ("Missionary Impossible," March 22) staff present themselves in such a straight manner as t
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The words "Jewish" and "homeschooling" are not frequently seen together, especially outside of the Orthodox c
Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist In 2010, Rabbi Rafael Shmuelevitz, head of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and a three-decade career educator, coul
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By Michael Natkin, JTNews Columnist Sabich was a popular Shabbat food for Iraqi Jews, and when they immigrated to Israel and set up a community in
Read MoreBy Edith Shaked , Special to JTNews The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), should amend the "Proclamation of the Days of Remembranc
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By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist When I called Spokane resident Julie Morris just before Passover, she was hands deep in matzoh ball batter and
Read MoreBy Rabbi Bernie Fox , Northwest Yeshiva High School One of most beloved elements of the Passover Haggadah is the discussion of the four sons. The
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Year after year at the seder all is going well, then — there it is — the paragraph that unset
Read MoreBy Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg , Temple B'nai Torah "May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is
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By Michael Natkin, JTNews Columnist Braising is something of a lost art, which is a shame because it isn't at all difficult to do. Learn a couple
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By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist A friend with cancer says her doctor is "the singing oncologist." Recently, he sang the Misheberach (prayer f
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