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By Rabbi Will Berkovitz, Hillel at the University of Washington My grandmother escaped from Russia hiding under a pile of hay in a horse- drawn wagon. At the border, men with pitchforks stabbed into it, attempting to thwart any stowaways. At least this once they didn’t succeed, and she andContinue Reading

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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist After a five-year tenure as executive director of National Council of Jewish Women, Seattle section, Lauren Simonds was both sad and excited to inform the community that she had taken a new job as executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Washington. Lauren announced her job changeContinue Reading

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By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Though Pesach is still a few weeks away, plans are already underway in our home for seder night. Here’s our family’s question. Different segments of our relatives have different practices when it comes to the afikomen. I say that the adults hideContinue Reading

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By Laurie Warshal Cohen, Ed.D, Co-Executive Director, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, Seattle The story of hidden children in Holland who did survive the Holocaust is a fascinating one (“The saved children,” March 6). While Wolf points to many cases where the child’s identity remained hidden after the warContinue Reading

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By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle The puff piece on McKenna (March 6)failed to ask him some pertinent questions. For example, what is he actually doing to make the Internet safe, since he claims that he’s “really concerned” about it? The AG also mentioned elder abuse as one of his priorities.Continue Reading

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By Edward Alexander , Special to JTNews The enemies of Israel neither slumber nor sleep. Right now they are engaged in “Israel Apartheid Week,” spewing fire and vitriol at the Jewish State and calling for its elimination from the family of nations; as the Nazis sought to make Europe JudenreinContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Bernard Fox, Northwest Yeshiva High School I have stopped watching television news. I carefully select the articles I read on the Web. As I drive to school, I constantly change from one radio news channel to another. I barely read the newspaper. I am overwhelmed and fatigued fromContinue Reading

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By Richard Silverstein , Special to JTNews Gerald Steinberg is the director of the right-wing Israel group, NGO Monitor. His mission is to “expose” the “perfidy” of supposed liberal or dovish Israeli, European and Palestinian NGOs which claim to advance Middle East peace but which really, in his opinion, advanceContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Cindy Enger, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham As the Jewish holiday of Purim approaches, we may find ourselves musing about who we will be this year on our annual day of costumes, carnivals, spoofs and silliness. In our synagogues, we will read from Megillat Esther or tell its storyContinue Reading

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By Dan Kosky , Special to JTNews Israel’s achievements in the face of acute challenges over the past 60 years are unparalleled. Yet the sobering reality also exists that the Zionist project is a work in progress — we see a society still striving to “uphold the full social andContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle Your glowing obituary on Eileen Mintz, of blessed memory (“Everybody’s best friend,” Feb. 6), was an accurate portrayal of the family’s and the community’s great loss. Those of us who have known Eileen over the years have valued her friendship in high esteem. She wasContinue Reading

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By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I visited my grown children over winter break and saw to my horror that at bedtime they turn on a CD player and allow it to “sing” the children to sleep. I was horrified. Bedtime is for snuggling! Lullabies were meant toContinue Reading

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By Jan Lewinsohn, , Seattle With regard to special mention of Eileen Mintz’s “Best Rugelach” recipe (“Your choice: The Best of Everything,” Feb 6), I want to assure all that many of use have that recipe because of the Jewish Transcript. I am referring to the January 26, 2001 “NorthwestContinue Reading

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By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews On a tragic night a little over two and a half years ago, when Seattle’s Jewish community was in shock following the murder of one woman and the wounding of five others, we also learned that we had a friend, and an important oneContinue Reading

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By Jason Feirman, Senior Marketing Manager Jewish National Fund, Thank you for your great piece about the importance of planting trees and greening our planet (“Celebrating the New Year for the trees,” Feb. 6). You mention that Jewish National Fund should be valuing our tree planting initiatives in terms ofContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Mordechai Farkash, Director, Eastside Torah Center I am one of 17 children (Thank God) and most of us, except for perhaps one or two, have only one name. Once I asked my mother, “Mama, why did you only give us one name? Most of my friends have atContinue Reading