By Ilyse Wagner, , Bellevue Growing up Jewish on Mercer Island, I often heard from others that it was a center of Jewish life in the Puget Sound ar
Read MoreBy Simcha Shtull, , Seattle This week President Obama will take the first overseas trip of his second term; it will be the first time since taking
Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist Although Israel isn't among the top 10 countries in the world with a high prevalence of diabetes in its populati
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist As a new member of the Jewish Theological Seminary's administrative team, Aliyah Vinikoor is looking forward to
Read MoreBy Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, Rabbi Emeritus, Sephardic Bikur Holim To my delight, I have noticed an encouraging trend of people who might not be reli
Read MoreBy Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews This past July, a bomb went off in Burgas, Bulgaria, murdering five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus dr
Read MoreBy Ben Cohen , JNS.org WASHINGTON, DC—The razzmatazz at this year's AIPAC policy conference couldn't quite mute the background murmurs about the o
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist "If you have [a] passion, which I do in politics, then it's not a job, it's wonderful," says Sandy Kraus, the
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, On one hand, the good news is that everything turns out okay for us at the end of the Megilla
Read MoreBy Rabbi Mark Glickman , Congregations Kol Ami and Kol Shalom "Nostalgia," Yogi Berra once quipped "isn't what it used to be." His insight proba
Read MoreBy Belinda Timpke"¨, , Tacoma Eitan Isaacson and Wendy Elisheva Somerson's op-ed ("Solidarity with Palestinian non-violent resistance," Feb. 8) is
Read MoreBy Iris Langman, , Mercer Island Hen Mazzig's account ("A sixth broken camera," Feb. 6) of the fracas at the talk by Iyad Burnat on the documentar
Read MoreBy David Shayne, , Seattle The tile of the Jewish Voice for Peace article "Palestinian non-violent resistance" is an oxymoron. The authors want th
Read MoreBy Philip R. Scheier, , Shoreline Re: your half-page, mind-numbing rationale by Eitan Isaacson and Wendy Elisheva Somerson of the Seattle chapter o
Read MoreBy Hen Mazzig , Special to JTNews I had been in Seattle and the U.S. only a few days when I heard that Palestinian Iyad Burnat, brother of the fil
Read MoreBy Eitan Isaacson and Wendy Elisheva Somerson , Special to JTNews On Sun., Jan. 13, the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, with Students U
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By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist When you see "The Music Man" at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theater (starting Feb. 7), keep your eye on 9-year-old J
Read MoreBy Rabbi Harry Zeitlin , Congregation Beth Ha'Ari Judaism has contributed a great deal to world civilization. We introduced the concept of ethical
Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been in a vegetative state since his second stroke and the subsequent brain hemorrh
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By Michael Natkin , JTNews Columnist This is one of my favorite appetizers to serve for a party; they are a cinch to make and will surprise your g
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