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By Josh Basson, , Seattle News reports indicate that the Obama administration would like Israel to cede most of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to the Palestinians to achieve a peace agreement. Palestinian leaders have made no secret they will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and continueContinue Reading

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By Fred Scherlinder Dobb and Terry Gips , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — With a tradition thousands of years old, Judaism informs us on taking the long view — the Divine view, as it were, since God is concerned even to the thousandth generation in the future (ExodusContinue Reading

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By Rabbi David Fine , Union for Reform Judaism Questions. We love questions, and we love asking questions of our rabbis. How many letters are in the Torah? (304,805, assembled into 79,847 words). How deep is the Dead Sea? Is it the saltiest body of water in the world? (It’sContinue Reading

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By Fredric Tobis, , Mercer Island I write to respond to a blatant distortion of Senator Patty Murray’s support for the State of Israel published in an ad paid for by the Republican Jewish Coalition (Oct. 15). I have been an activist supporting the U.S.-Israel relationship for 25 years. IContinue Reading

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By David S. Frockt, , Seattle Recently, the National Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) sponsored a full-page advertisement in the JTNews (Oct. 15) charging that Senator Patty Murray was not a friend and supporter of the State of Israel. The RJC’s charge is false. Patty Murray has been and remains aContinue Reading

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By Miriam Schwartz Stuart and family, , Redmond Thank you for your article about our congregation (“Woodinville congregation holds its own through hard times,” Oct. 15). Let me encourage all those in search of a Jewish “home” in the area to stop by. My family and I moved here severalContinue Reading

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By Akiva K. Segan, , Seattle In response to Mr. Basson’s claim that I “do not realize that both Hamas and Fatah’s charters call for the destruction of Israel in its text,” (Letters, Oct. 15) I wonder why Mr. Basson wrote such a claim as to what I know andContinue Reading

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By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Now that the season has ended sadly, I believe the time has come for some words of wisdom for our “Mad Men” provocateurs. As I, like many a viewer, have voyeuristically tuned in to witness the various foibles of our favorite diabolicalContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Ben Aaronson , Capitol Hill Minyan Richard Feynman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, worked as a young graduate on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb during World War II. The greatest physicists of the day would regularly visit to consult on the project. NielsContinue Reading

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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist One of the many recent revolutions in publishing is the readily available, relatively inexpensive ability to produce books through Internet publishing companies. I could argue both for and against this trend. In this case I err on the side of good because now family eldersContinue Reading

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By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews This is the third in a series of articles by Robert Wilkes, who hopes to convince Seattle-area Jews that it is in the best interest of the Jewish people to consider voting for Republicans, or Democrats with more conservative viewpoints. We all haveContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin, Regional Director, Chabad of Washington State and Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch As a prerequisite for atonement, in preparation for Yom Kippur, halachah (Jewish law) mandates that we ask for forgiveness — michala — if we have offended, hurt, maligned or otherwise done harm to our fellowContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle Re: “Partner or not, we need to talk“ (Letters, Oct.1), Akiva K. Segan writes, urging Israel to just keep talking whether they have a credible “partner for peace” or not. What Segan and others fail to realize is that both Hamas and Fatah’s charters callContinue Reading

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By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews I have been paying close attention to the recent news about gay and lesbian teens who could no longer take the incessant bullying they received at the hands of their high school peers — and ended their lives. An initiative by local sex-advice columnistContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Cindy Enger, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham Shortly before Rosh Hashanah, the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue community enjoyed the fortunate opportunity to welcome Sam Amiel and Michael Novick, who both work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, to Bellingham. They shared with us a number of current projectsContinue Reading

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By Leonard Kashner, , Seattle Zach Duitch, left, Andor Schvarcz and Congressman Dave Reichert The following will sound like a candidate endorsement but it is not. I do not live in the 8th Congressional district and I do not favor either candidate. Since retiring from the Seattle Public Schools, IContinue Reading

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By Maurice Friedlander-Shaw, , Seattle ADL responded appropriately (Sept. 17) to Mr. John Rothschild’s letter (“Blatant discrimination,” Sept. 3), which advocated disruption of its organization. Rothschild’s approach is certainly not a way to “win friends and influence people.” Needless to say, Mr. Rothschild is unaware of the potential religious conflictsContinue Reading