The other side of the coin

By Rabbi Seth Goldstein, Temple Beth Hatfiloh Upon receiving change recently I noticed one of the coins I was handed was the bicentennial quarter

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Conversion overlooked

By Akiva Segan, , Seattle It's "interesting" that the JTNews editors would print a front-page article about fundraising by evangelical Christian "

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Don’t end the outreach

By Rabbi Dov Gartenberg, Founder and Director, Panim Hadashot — New Faces of Judaism, Seattle I want to commend JTNews for its Viewpoints page, whi

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Meditations

By Sam Levinson, , Seattle When I read the column written by Rabbi Ted Falcon ("Listening to tradition," Feb. 2) in your current edition, I was re

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God comes down the mountain

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist This column is dedicated to my father, who celebrated his ninetieth birthday this past week of Parshat Y

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Listening to tradition

By Rabbi Ted Falcon, Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue I remember the story that was told when I was in rabbinical school about the two student rabbis

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Didn’t make the cut

By Gail Broder, MHS, Community Education Project Manager, HIV Vaccine Trials Network, Seattle I wanted to point out a significant error that appear

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Survival by language

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I grew up without a Jewish education, but have come to love learning. I have finally, after m

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Persian Jewish history

By Albert Feldmann, , Seattle The JTNews generally maintains a high journalistic standard, so the occasional slip-up must be pointed out. Specifica

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Seeing the light

By Jack D. Israel, , Bellevue The article, "Weathering the "˜Hanukkah Storm,'" (Jan. 5) reminded me of a poem I wrote on the occasion of a previou

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The rabbi’s attorney

By Harvey Grad, , Renton The opinions I express here are my own in response to your story, editorial and letters from the Dec. 15 issue. There are

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Printing hate

By Nancy Gordon, , You should be ashamed of yourself for printing the "responses" to the airport tree issues. Even the secular newspapers such as

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With friends like these…

By Jacqueline Bollen, , Seattle I deliberately did not renew my subscription when it expired, because with friends like the "JT," who needs enemie

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