By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am feeling less than thrilled about the High Holidays this year. First, they are really early — just two days after Labor Day. This only exacerbates my chronic challenge in connecting with the themes of repentance. It is hard for meContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to note that Rose Yu is included among the Jewish riders. JTNews regrets the error. Along with 10,000 other bike riders and, I’m sure, a few dozen or more folks from our Jewish community, a group of ridersContinue Reading
By Adrienne Weller, , Seattle I am glad to see coverage of the Olympia Co-op’s decision to boycott Israeli products. (“Olympia co-op votes to boycott Israeli products,” July 23). It is a principled and courageous action and naturally they are taking heat for it. Many Jews like myself are notContinue Reading
By Josh Basson, , Seattle Thank you, Erez Ben-Ari, for a very moving column (“Not just for anyone,” July 9) making a very important point about how organ donation saves lives. Albert Behar and his family are very close friends of mine. I have nothing but admiration and respect forContinue Reading
By Rabbi Bernie Fox, Northwest Yeshiva High School My wife Shirley and I spent this past Shabbat in Pittsburgh visiting my mother. In the morning, I arrived at synagogue and took my usual seat next to where my father, of blessed memory, sat for many decades. Two rows in frontContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews There’s going to come a time in the not-so-distant future that the news of a food cooperative or some company deciding to boycott Israel isn’t going to make the front page of the JTNews. And if the past year is any indication, these eventsContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Northwest Yeshiva graduate Yishai Mizrachi-Varon (2005) has been in Israel this summer as a fellowship recipient of the PresenTense Global Institute. A Baruch College student in New York, Yishai has been working in an unpaid internship at Shemspeed, a Jewish world-music recording label and promotionContinue Reading
By Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, Temple B’nai Torah I was born in 1972. This was the year that the Ms. Foundation for Women released its ever-popular recording of feminist songs and stories for children. It was also the year that Sally Priesand, the first female rabbi, was ordained at the HebrewContinue Reading
By Kimberly Wolf, , Sammamish I just read the article on the Federation’s fundraising efforts (”As projected, Federation campaign ends down,” July 9). This article shows why Federation leaves me cold and has me not donating. I have a disability and in the past have looked to Federation for help,Continue Reading
By Nevet Basker, , Bellevue Philip Gerson (“A compassionate search for reality,” July 8) repeats a number of common but erroneous myths about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He describes the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo as being built on “Palestinian land annexed to Jerusalem in 1967.” In fact, as I am sureContinue Reading
By Philip R. Scheier, , Shoreline Conflicting viewpoints on the Mideast’s eternal problems are the stuff of honest reporting and always welcome. However, the July 9 issue of the JTNews, with its two slanted, lengthy articles targeting Israel as the culprit for daring to defend itself against non-stop Arab attacksContinue Reading
By Robert Wilkes , Special to JTNews This is the second in a series of columns by Robert Wilkes, who has taken upon himself the nearly hopeless task of convincing Jews it is in their best interest to vote Republican. I describe my wife Nancy as kinetic. She must alwaysContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Have you noticed the amount of cooking shows on TV? What is this? Have we as a society become obsessed with food? Frankly, how many ways can there be to prepare our victuals? Enough already! The hedonism is getting beyond any basicContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist 1 “Mr. Grosskopf is going to Hungary!” At least that’s the way it was reported in the halls of Seattle’s Roosevelt High School this spring as word spread of the Language Arts teacher’s upcoming year abroad. An article in the school paper informed me thatContinue Reading
By Dr. Marc Kramer, Executive Director, RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network, New York, NY I am delighted to join in congratulating Beth Huppin of the Seattle Jewish Community School on being chosen as one of three outstanding Jewish educators to receive the nationally acclaimed 2010 Covenant Award. Beth’sContinue Reading
By Peter Mark, , Seattle In Rabbi’s Turn on June 25 (“Just a bit too interesting“), Rabbi Jonathan Singer referred to “Israel’s attack on the “˜peace’ activists” and wrote that “Israel treated the approaching Gaza flotilla convoy as giants.” To characterize what happened at sea as an “Israeli attack” isContinue Reading
By Josh Basson, , Seattle The insightful column by Robert Kaufman (“The tragic indoctrination of Rachel Corrie,” June 25) should concern us all. It is disconcerting to know that Evergreen State College in Olympia, a state-funded institution, has turned into a private playground by radical anti-Israel faculty. Jewish students shouldContinue Reading
By Philip Gerson , Special to JTNews From May 25—June 5, I joined in a Compassionate Listening Project delegation to Israel-Palestine, where I spent seven days in Israel and East Jerusalem and four days in the West Bank. Our group consisted of 24 people from North America that included Christians,Continue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist “Why Rwanda…?” is probably what most people think when they find out Shelly Anne Rosen is making a second home in that African country, even if they’re too polite to say it. The Seattle native — whose family has lived here since about 1912 —Continue Reading
By Rabbi Jacob Elisha Fine, Hillel at the University of Washington One of the occupational hazards of being a rabbi is that self-identified atheists seem to have a habit of making sure you know that they don’t believe in God. Never mind theorizing the impetuses for such self-disclosures, I haveContinue Reading
