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By Kayla Weiner, , Seattle I read with interest your article about housing and the Jewish community (“Yes for homes!” Sept. 11). I am glad you mentioned the danger in the Eyman initiative. It is important that people know to vote no on 1033. I would like to emphasize theContinue Reading

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By Eileen Weintraub, , Seattle Your column in defense of kaparot was so upsetting I am just getting the strength to write now (“What’s Your JQ?” Sept. 11). How can inflicting pain on a helpless creature make us better people? Do you know that many people who inflict pain becomeContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle Ron Kampeas’s insightful front page column was quite informative (“Iran policy reveals split between U.S. Jewish and Israeli left,” Sept. 11). It is not surprising that there is this split. U.S. Jews do not live in Israel and have not been the target of violentContinue Reading

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By Janice E. Tufte, Islamic Civic Engagement Coalition, Seattle During this reflective time around your Yom Kippur and just after my Islamic Eid Al Fitr, I would like to send my sympathies and regrets regarding the hate crimes incidences that occurred recently (Sept. 12) in one of our Seattle neighborhoods.Continue Reading

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By Kayla Weiner, Ph.D. , , Seattle I was shocked and offended by the letter to the editor (“Broad Goals,” Aug. 21). To the best of my knowledge the teachings of the Torah, which I take as the primary goals of the Jewish people, do not require procreation. Love, compassionContinue Reading

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By Sasha Parsley, Western Washington University student, Kirkland I am deeply disturbed that the JTNews chose to publish the objectionable and narrow-minded message written by Edith Isaacs Ervin, “Broad Goals,” in response to the article “Gay Israelis Reeling After Shooting Attack.” It is comments such as these that further divideContinue Reading

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By Margaret Lemberg, , Seattle All of the evidence that I know of strongly supports the notion that sexual orientation is not a choice, but inborn. So, gays and lesbians who marry would still be gay and lesbian, but simply attempting to repress their true selves. Do we really haveContinue Reading

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By Susan Benyowitz, , Los Angeles, Calif. In your article “First Stop: Seattle” (Aug. 21) you neglected to mention that Federal Election Commission filings show that J Street has Muslims and Arabs as donors, as well as people connected to Palestinian and Iranian advocacy. Jeremy Ben Ami admits that atContinue Reading

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By Jack Fackerell, , Redmond I would like to remind Edith Isaacs Ervin that the recent murders of gays in Tel Aviv were tragic losses to our entire community (letters, Aug. 21). That they were targeted due to being gay should be shocking and very concerning to every Jew, becauseContinue Reading

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By Jeffrey Weiser , , Redmond It isn’t easy to be a Jewish liberal these days. You agree with all your non-Jewish liberal friends on everything: Government control of health care, turning the world green, the mainstreaming of homosexuality, silencing Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, banishing religion from the publicContinue Reading

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By Edith Isaacs Ervin, , Mercer Island Enough with this gay-schmay stuff (“Gay Israelis reeling after shooting attack,” Aug. 7)! If we are intent on replacing ourselves after the World War II slaughter, practicing homosexuality isn’t the way toward that goal. Didn’t your mommies and daddies have “the talk” withContinue Reading

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By Robert Center, , Seattle As the chair of the advisory board to the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, I was pleased to read and agree with Professor Jaffee’s August 7 column regarding the Stroum Lectures (“A learning experience”). The program is proud of its manyContinue Reading

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By Chaplain Gary Friedman, , Seattle The last issue of the JTNews carried an ad from a pair of restaurants highlighting their “Kosher Deli Meats (Plus Regular Kosher Style Deli Items).” By “kosher deli meats,” are they referring to their non-recommended brands that anybody keeping kosher for religious reasons wouldn’tContinue Reading

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By Edward Alexander, , Seattle A main reason why President Obama nominated Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court is that he believed she would be “the first Hispanic appointment to the high court.” In fact, the first Supreme Court justice of Hispanic background was Benjamin Cardozo, appointed by President HooverContinue Reading

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By Philip R. Scheier, , Shoreline The fact that your lead story in the July 24 issue, headlined, “A prophet for peace or a wedge between peacemakers?” ends with a question mark is not the only question mark on this overlong two-and-a-half-column agonizing on the guest speaker’s true intentions towardContinue Reading

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By Dexter Van Zile, Christian Media Analyst CAMERA, Boston, Mass. Contrary to Naim Ateek’s assertion, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, (CAMERA), does not believe that he is “worse than Hamas” (“A prophet for peace or a wedge between peacemakers?“ July 24). Hamas has killed hundreds;Continue Reading

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By Jenna Sytman , , Mercer Island Mr. Rothschild’s June 26 letter to the editor is a highly flawed argument that uses a concept most hold in contempt to further his personal disapproval of certain local institutions — crying “discrimination!” and suggesting the Federation address their budget deficit by eliminatingContinue Reading

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By Jeremy Alk, , Seattle I think there is an additional reason for Tree of Life being in jeopardy (“Losing its leaves?” July 10): The closing of Leah’s Bakery’s retail business. Stores are a foot-traffic business. People pop in and see what’s new. It’s also seasonal: Jews in the greaterContinue Reading

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By Hilary Bernstein & Richard Fruchter, Director, Pacific Northwest Anti-Defamation League & President & CEO Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, [JTNews editor] Joel Magalnick believes our Jewish community failed (“We failed,” June 26). On the contrary, our community behaved prudently. When Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group from Topeka, Kan.,Continue Reading