By Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist Doctors will tell you that it is far better to prevent cancer, if at all possible, but if a cancer does begin to grow, the next best defense against its fast-growing tendencies is to diagnose it early and fight it with as many tools asContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Earlier this year, Kurtis Carsch, 18, became a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS), which seeks out and recognizes pre-college contributions to science by students and their schools. Initially he was one of 300 competitors selected from 1,839, and went on toContinue Reading
By Rabbi Jill Borodin, Congregation Beth Shalom One of my goals for this summer has been to expose my 6-year-old twin daughters to hiking. Over the past couple of weeks, we have gone out hiking twice. The first time, I picked an easy walk. This easy trail started out fine,Continue Reading
By Edmon J. Rodman , JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — This year, Tisha b’Av marks not only the destruction of both Temples, but with the opening ceremony of the London Olympics just a night earlier, the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre. On this day of mourningContinue Reading
By Edward Alexander, , Seattle When we pass the “biblical” age of three score and ten, we begin to feel — as Saul Bellow said when he passed that milestone — that old friends are “dropping all around as on a battlefield.” Yet nothing could have prepared us for theContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, My dilemma is around the Holocaust and how to relate to it. On one hand, I think I know plenty about it. But on the other hand, it really is not something I want to think about. I see the notices aboutContinue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist “I enjoy connecting people to one another,” says Lynn Chapman, explaining one reason she became a local coordinator for the Council on International Education Exchange’s (CIEE) high school program, matching Seattle-area host families with overseas students. “The reason [these programs] exist is for diplomacy,”Continue Reading
By Marcie Natan , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — Pride and chagrin: It’s rare that the two emotions are experienced simultaneously. But that is how we are feeling at Hadassah. We feel pride because women now hold three of our top professional positions: Janice Weinman is ourContinue Reading
By Mordecai Goldstein, , Everett I just want to say that I am very pleased with the performance of this journal. Here is an example of why I feel that way: Recently, the paper informed that a visiting professor at the University of Washington was none other than world-class IsraeliContinue Reading
By Gil Troy , Shalom Hartman Institute The Middle East is combustible enough without adding one-sided, incendiary historical accounts to the mix. And yet, again and again, we see what we could call haute couture history — history custom-fitted to the trendy, distorted narrative that confuses cause and consequence, reducesContinue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist After 26 years in Seattle, Leslie Fried has moved to Anchorage to be curator of the Alaska Jewish Museum. Founded in 2004, the museum is just now becoming a physical reality. An inaugural exhibit opens this November in a small building in a largerContinue Reading
By Rabbi Alan Cook , Temple De Hirsch Sinai I have been blessed to be involved in a number of opportunities for interfaith dialogue over the past several months. In a variety of settings, laypeople and clergy from a number of different religious traditions have discussed matters ranging from marriageContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist Does your doctor keep you on a heart-healthy lifestyle by monitoring your cholesterol, red meat intake, fat calories, or by harping on you to quit smoking? Well, maybe it’s time to focus on something obvious, something researchers in Israel have found could increase yourContinue Reading
By Rabbi Avremi Yarmush, Chabad of Whatcom County In this week’s Torah portion, Korach instigates a mutiny against Moshe Rabbeinu. Throughout history, Korach has been vilified as someone who was corrupt and had no fear of God. However, if we look at his argument, it doesn’t seem all that bad.Continue Reading
By Rafael Medoff , JointMedia News Service Seventy years ago this month, America learned, for the first time, about the systematic mass murder of Europe’s Jews — but Allied officials and some leading newspapers downplayed the news. In late 1941 and early 1942, Western diplomats and journalists received scattered informationContinue Reading
By , If you didn’t know it already, the crossword puzzle that appears in this newspaper also appears in life size on the wall at Capitol Hill’s Eltana bagel café in Seattle. The Eltana version is a weekly moveable sculpture (to match your moveable feast), made of white crossword tilesContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Did you catch the latest “America’s Got Talent?” It’s the one with the adorable kippah-wearing Jewish kid, Edan Pinochot, singing One Republic’s “Good Life.” Is it a moment of pride for the Jewish community when Edan is chosen by the judges, HowardContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist It’s difficult to overestimate the global impact that the new partnership between the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell University, CornellNYC Tech, will have on the future of research and new technology. But last month, on May 22, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Google,Continue Reading
By Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum , Herzl—Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation When I was in my early 20s, I went through a period of several years when I set Judaism aside. I had been raised with the best Jewish upbringing you can imagine: My father was a Conservative rabbi; our family wasContinue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist She was born and raised on the wet side, but Seattle native Josey Fast is now enjoying life on the dry side of the Cascade curtain as the owner of the only commercial art gallery in the Yakima Valley. The Franklin High and WesternContinue Reading
