Talking points

By Rick Harkavy, Executive Director, Pacific Northwest Region, American Jewish Congress, With the upcoming production in Seattle of the play, My Na

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Check the program

By Nancy F. Geiger, Vice President for Finance & Administration, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, In an article entitled �As Seattle Rep

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Forging Forgiveness

By Rabbi Daniel Weiner , Temple De Hirsch Sinai The season of forgiveness is upon us. But it follows a tough summer for our people. Mel Gibson

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Focus elsewhere

By Tina Novick, , Bellevue I have been a subscriber to the Jewish Transcript/JTNews for over 18 years. Your decision-making regarding two parts of

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Grabbing attention

By Alison Solam, , Shoreline When I picked up the August 18 edition of the JTNews, I was appalled to see the photo of the [alleged] killer of my de

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Truth in advertising

By Rob Spitzer, Andrew Benjamin, , Seattle It was with great disappointment that we read the full page advertisement of the Republican National Com

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Unity through debate

By Rainer Waldman Adkins, Chairperson, Brit Tzedek v?Shalom, Greater Seattle Chapter, Regarding Neil Goldberg?s letter (August 18) of the Israel So

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Alleged rewrites

By Edna Oberman, , Seattle In the same letter in the last JTNews (August 18), Robert Kaufman managed to tar both Rabbi Ted Falcon and Jamal Rahman

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Bitten by the snake

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist I am so deeply disturbed about the events of this summer. It seems like all we Jews have been experienc

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Fate or free will?

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am reading the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. I am enjoying

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Cholent

By Rabbi Shalom D. Farkash , Chabad of the Central Cascades 'God, how long?' (Psalms 90:13) The story is told of a simple, unlettered Jew who k

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Letters – July 7, 2006

By multiple authors, , Not just an Orthodox issue The last JTNews issue article about my having recently dodged bullets in two predatory lawsuits

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The spirit of mishugas

By Rabbi Chaim Levine , LivingJudaism 'I wish some people would grow up.' 'Some people just don't think.' 'Some people are so insensitive.'

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