By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Northwest Yeshiva High School grad Gilah Kletenik spent eight weeks this summer on an Orthodox Union-sponsored
Read MoreBy Jeremy D. Sher, , Seattle I'd like to appreciate Rob Jacobs's impact as head of our regional ADL. As a Zionist peacenik, I experienced first-han
Read MoreBy Barbara Lahav, , Mercer Island It was with great surprise and a heavy heart that I read of the unplanned departure of Rob Jacobs as the local Ex
Read MoreBy Rainer Waldman Adkins, Chairperson, Greater Seattle Chapter Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Seattle As Rob Jacobs departs the position of Director for the
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist On a quiet dead-end street in Seattle's Madrona neighborhood, Zachary Self and Aaron Walker-Loud have set up sh
Read MoreBy Phillip Klitzner, Owner, Nosh Away, Seattle Over the past few days, I understand that there has been a lot of negative feedback regarding the Je
Read MoreBy Rabbi Mordechai Farkash, Congregation Beis Menachem - Lubavitch As any good homeowner knows, it's not the little boxes with the flashing lights
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we prepare to dip that apple in honey and to get into gear for major honey cake baking, I
Read MoreBy Rabbi David Fine, Union for Reform Judaism The Jewish traditions and rituals surrounding the greatest of our joys — birth, reaching adulthood,
Read MoreBy Ami Eden , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman would have stood on much stronger intellectua
Read MoreBy Rabbi Shmuley Boteach , JTA News & Features Noah Feldman was a brilliant, Orthodox Jewish Rhodes scholar who arrived in Oxford in 1992 in m
Read MoreBy Rabbi Anson Laytner, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee, Seattle A number of people have asked me why I was in China so early and it
Read MoreBy Susan Alhadeff, , Seattle Manny Frishberg's reporting on the movie A Mighty Heart ("One of the unlucky ones," July 6) leaves open a question as
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Many readers may remember the Bar and Bat Mitzvah twinning program of the 1980s, which paired Soviet Jews denie
Read MoreBy Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, My father recently passed away and I find myself saying the Kaddish prayer on a daily basis.
Read MoreBy Josh Basson , , Seattle Strengthening weakly Dan Baron's insightful front page column was quite informative ("Uncertainty hampers progress for I
Read More
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Although Rabbi Anson Laytner has served in a variety of professional positions in Seattle over the years, and i
Read MoreBy Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg , Special to JTNews The customs we observe on the day of Tisha B'Av are strikingly similar to those of an avel, a mou
Read MoreBy Sharon Asia Finegold, , Seattle Now that the play about Rachel Corrie has come and gone, the various executive directors of the organizations wh
Read MoreBy Philip R. Scheier, , Seattle I was quite touched by the unhappy plight of so-called Progressive Jews here in the soul-searching news report by y
Read More