Letters (Page 14)

By Rabbi Bernie Fox, Head of School Northwest Yeshiva High School, In a recent letter to the JTNews titled “Double standards” (June 26), the writer suggested that Federation should limit its allocations for those organizations that serve and welcome the entire community. This criterion would exclude Orthodox schools from fundingContinue Reading

By Steve Krafchick, , Seattle If what John Rothschild reports is truly the admissions policy of the [day schools], then I want to weigh in and support John’s call for the Federation cutting funding to these schools. The schools subject to those admission policies can only serve a very smallContinue Reading

By Rabbi David Twersky, , Seattle John Rothschild’s “brilliant” suggestion (Letters, June 26) as to how to partially solve the Jewish Federation’s financial crisis — namely by elimination of funding for Orthodox day schools — represents the classic case of someone who is so open minded that his brains fallContinue Reading

By Pinchas Zohav , , Bellevue Israel is probably more safe from nuclear attack than most any location on the planet. The obvious fact is that if Iran or any other source would detonate a nuclear device anywhere in Israel’s territory, it would instantly take out the third most holyContinue Reading

By Murray A. Marcus, , Seattle In your issue of June 12, 2009, you wrote “Please stay away.” I think that was the wrong message. They stayed away when Hitler started and 6 million Jews died. The only way to defeat these people is to confront them and to letContinue Reading

By Alice Woldt, Transitional Executive Director, Washington Association of Churches The member denominations and institutions of the Washington Association of Churches deplore the message being brought to Seattle by Fred Phelps and his band of hate-mongers from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. We stand in support of you, ourContinue Reading

By Tammy Kaiser, , Seattle resident of a nearby barracks. There are not sufficient words to describe the feeling of singing “Hatikvah” overlooking the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, or the feeling of laughing in Auschwitz, suddenly overwhelmed with joy because we survived to tell the story. EverywhereContinue Reading

By John Rothschild, , Seattle In the last issue of JTNews, there was an article on the funding crisis for the Jewish Federation (“Federation officials brace for sharp campaign drop,” June 12). As I was reading this article, the amazing spontaneous events in Iran were happening. I began thinking ofContinue Reading

By Rabbi Vicki Hollander, Congregation Shaareth Israel, Lubbock, TX In my 14 years in the rabbinate in the Pacific Northwest I had the pleasure to serve Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Temple Beth Or in Everett, the Jewish Community Center in Bremerton, Herzl-Ner Tamid on Mercer Island, Or Shalom in Vancouver,Continue Reading

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Leslie Susser’s insightful front page column was quite informative (“Is Hamas reassessing its strategy?” May 29). Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal’s offer to Israel of a 10-year truce with clearly unacceptable conditions to both Israel and Western governments is a futile attempt to improve its internationalContinue Reading

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Michael J. Jordan’s insightful front page column was quite informative (“Was Durban II a success or failure?” May 1.) It is apparent by the boycotts, walkouts and the hateful attacks on Israel by Iran’s president, Durban II must be remembered by Jews and non-Jews alikeContinue Reading

By Ginamarie Emanuel, , Seattle I was delighted that Jerusalem Camp at the Rainbow Gathering was featured in Leyna Krow’s excellent article “Ten Jewish Places to See Before You Die (not counting Israel)” (Jew-ish.com insert, April 17). Nineteen years ago in Colorado, I organized a Bat Mitzvah. One had toContinue Reading

By Gail Broder, , Seattle Thanks so much for the article about where to find good falafel and other Middle Eastern food in Seattle (“Piece of the Middle East,” April 17), I wanted to point out an error in the caption on the photo that appeared on page 9. MeditteraneanContinue Reading

By Salaam Bhatti, , Central Islip, NY I read the article “Questions about Judaism” (April 3) by Janis Siegel that was about the interfaith day at the Ahmadi Muslim Mosque. It is good to see faiths coming together to learn about each other’s faith, as we were so close toContinue Reading

By Josh Basson, , Seattle In 2005, Israel gave up all of Gaza with hopes for peace. Indeed, Israel evacuated 9,000 Israeli civilians from Gaza. What has Israel gotten in return? More than 8,000 rockets shot toward Israel — rockets that are aimed at innocent Israeli civilians — and areContinue Reading

By Laurie Warshal Cohen, Ed.D, Co-Executive Director, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, Seattle The story of hidden children in Holland who did survive the Holocaust is a fascinating one (“The saved children,” March 6). While Wolf points to many cases where the child’s identity remained hidden after the warContinue Reading

By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle The puff piece on McKenna (March 6)failed to ask him some pertinent questions. For example, what is he actually doing to make the Internet safe, since he claims that he’s “really concerned” about it? The AG also mentioned elder abuse as one of his priorities.Continue Reading

By Josh Basson, , Seattle Your glowing obituary on Eileen Mintz, of blessed memory (“Everybody’s best friend,” Feb. 6), was an accurate portrayal of the family’s and the community’s great loss. Those of us who have known Eileen over the years have valued her friendship in high esteem. She wasContinue Reading

By Jan Lewinsohn, , Seattle With regard to special mention of Eileen Mintz’s “Best Rugelach” recipe (“Your choice: The Best of Everything,” Feb 6), I want to assure all that many of use have that recipe because of the Jewish Transcript. I am referring to the January 26, 2001 “NorthwestContinue Reading