Flour bouquets

By Natalie Gerson, , Bellevue I received the JTNews on Friday, January 11, and quickly turned to the Best of Everything. I was particularly interes

Read More

A workout

By Aviram Sela, Commander, Keren Artillery Battalion, Israel I would like to thank [Seattle Friends of the Israel Defense Forces] for your generosi

Read More

Rehabilitation

By Mark Schreiber, , Seattle Congratulations to JTNews on their well-designed attempt to rehabilitate Rabbi Schwartz's image. The first article pai

Read More

Safe travels

By Keith Gormezano , , Seattle As a Jew and a safe driver, I was pleased that the jury convicted Ephraim Schwartz for "assault — injury by vehicle,

Read More

The impossible, now possible

By Tree McCurdy, , Seattle Oy! When all is said and done, it looks like the Democratic Party Chair is more in tune with Passover than our local Jew

Read More

Beyond the narrative

By Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, The Kavana Cooperative We've experienced a dramatic shift in the content of our Torah reading over the past couple of we

Read More

Thanking the cadre

By Robert Jacobs, Northwest Regional Director Stand With Us, Seattle rats bow to pressure, change Passover plans," the JTNews didn't credit Jeremy

Read More

No realistic expectations

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Ron Kampeas's insightful column was quite informative ("Bush goes to Israel," Jan. 11). Bush wants illegal settlement ou

Read More

Tree hostility

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Dear Rivy, Is it my imagination or has Tu B'Shevat taken on a significance beyond its original intent? When I was growing

Read More

A hollow victory

By   ,   Is it a religious imperative or a matter of convenience? Though Jewish Democratic activists are claiming victory in t

Read More

Hometown honors

By Micol (Rubin) Bayer, , Cleveland, OH I am truly honored to be voted best ketubah artist this year. I grew up in Seattle (a graduate of SHA and N

Read More

A complexity of emotions

By Rabbi Richard Toban , Seattle Kollel In this past week's Torah portion, the Talmud (Megillah 10b) tells us that during the miracles at the Spli

Read More

A return to Sinai

By Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz, West Seattle Torah Learning Center It was about four years ago, at around this time of year, when many from our local J

Read More

A hole in our theory

By Boaz Hoffman, L.Ac, , Thank you for including me in the Best of 2007 list (Jan. 11). I have an important correction: I'm not a naturopathic doct

Read More

Solidarity advocacy

By Rabbi Marc D. Angel, , New York, NY I have been saddened to learn of the dissension within the Seattle Jewish community in regard to the Kollel'

Read More

Flying rodent advocacy

By Eric Soll, , Edmonds I have always maintained that the Jewish concept of "tikkun olam" has been altered by the "progressive" Jewish community,

Read More

Hunger Advocacy

By Rabbi James L. Mirel, Temple B'nai Torah, Bellevue On behalf of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, I want to thank all the good people at JTNew

Read More

Homeless advocacy

By Carolyn Cohen and Sally Kinney , Puget Sound Jewish Coalition on Homelessness steering committee, Seattle The steering committee of the Puget So

Read More