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By Jason Feirman, Senior Marketing Manager Jewish National Fund, Thank you for your great piece about the importance of planting trees and greening our planet (“Celebrating the New Year for the trees,” Feb. 6). You mention that Jewish National Fund should be valuing our tree planting initiatives in terms ofContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson , , Seattle There is little doubt that Israel is morally justified in its offensive war against Hamas. No nation can sit by and allow its territory to be rocketed with impunity. Not if it wants to remain a nation for long. Israel’s response to seven yearsContinue Reading

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By H. Eric Schockman, Ph.D. , President, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, For the past seven years, you have joined together as a community to support MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger’s work to end hunger at an annual Hanukkah party. The continued success of this event is dueContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Charna Klein , , Seattle Regarding Diana Brement’s M.O.T. column (“Journalist is lay leader of Whidbey NAS,” Dec. 19, 2008): The story about Allison Buckholtz’s leadership at NAS Whidbey Island is certainly inspirational and she is to be praised for her contribution. However, the article states that sheContinue Reading

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By Rainer Waldman Adkins, Barbara Lahav , Seattle chapter, Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, Seattle Members of the Seattle chapter of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace) would like to thank the significant number of our local clergy who signed on to the national Brit Tzedek v’Shalom rabbinic letterContinue Reading

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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews, Karen Chachkes, Publisher, JTNews, Seattle As the year draws to a close, all of us at the JTNews and jew-ish.com would like to you wish you a happy Hanukkah. While we traditionally think of this time of year as a time to celebrate, for someContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson , , Seattle I am outraged by the recent radical Islamic terrorists massacre of innocent civilians that occurred in Mumbai, India. In particular, the savage murder of Chabad House’s Rabbi Gavriel Noah Holtzberg and his wife indicates senseless and baseless blind religious hatred that has left theirContinue Reading

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By Ken Shiovitz , , Seattle Regarding the political cartoon by Steve Greenberg in which Senator Joe Lieberman heads alone into the wilderness as a pariah between two stone idols representing the dominant U.S. political parties (Nov. 28): Do you hear that Joe? Look behind you and see the tensContinue Reading

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By Albert A. Feldmann , , Seattle Thanks for the excellent article by Noah S. Friedland (“The demise of land for peace,” Nov. 28). He has pointed out what others, whose descriptions are often colored by wishful thinking, generally omit. Turning over the entire Sinai to Egypt, which actually hadContinue Reading

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By Alvin J. Ziontz , , Bellevue Robert Wilkes begins with the strange assertion that “America is British, not French” (“Why Jews Are Democrats, and Why I Am Not,” Oct. 31), praising the glories of British government and denouncing French political philosophers. Sorry, Mr. Wilkes, our form of government owesContinue Reading

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By Robert and Gail Stagman , , Mercer Island With all due respect for Rabbi Kletenik, we believe his reasoning on Initiative 1000 (“Life is sacred,” Oct. 17) is misguided. Clergy do not have the moral authority to dictate to others how they will make a personal life decision affectingContinue Reading

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By Midge Levy , , Seattle I applaud Rabbi Laytner’s letter on the Death with Dignity Initiative (“Freedom of Choice,” Oct. 17) in which he offers alternative views to Rabbi Kletenik’s perspective. Rabbi Laytner addresses the dilemma where prolonging life sometimes prolongs the dying process, which is “unacceptable” to JewishContinue Reading

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By Philip R. Scheier , , Shoreline There are growing questions surrounding the real sponsorship of the deceptive anti-Israel I-97 petition being peddled by for-hire signature gatherers merely as an “anti-war petition.” For many, there seems to be the stench of oil money permeating this so-called petition. Basically, what thisContinue Reading

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By The Board of Rabbis , Va’ad HaRabbanim of Greater Seattle , The Va’ad policies for produce checking were formulated after months of investigation and collecting data concerning locally available produce. Our mashgichim, who were specially trained to check produce, checked the produce on a daily basis and kept recordsContinue Reading

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By George Guttmann , , Seattle Your recent article about I-97 (“Taking initiative,” July 25) classified the opponents of this initiative as “pro Israel,” suggesting that all those who support I-97 are anti-Israel. While I don’t like I-97 for a number of reasons, I also find your characterization of itsContinue Reading

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By Lawernce Black , Maccabi Arms , Reno, Nev. The purpose of our [gun sales] ad appearing in the JTNews at the time of the Haq trial was precisely to offer your readers the option of defending themselves against evil people and criminals who have guns (duh!). This right, ofContinue Reading

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By Keith Ljunghammar , , Seattle Your newspaper looks very interesting, but the article from the last publication (“Taking initiatve,” July 25) was disheartening. I do not see why any true American can say “no” to supporting Israel. I-97 and the City of Seattle pension fund not including Israel companyContinue Reading

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By Allen M. Gown, M.D. , , Seattle So the Va’ad would like to prevent us from accidentally ingesting insects with our food (“The food network,” July 11)? Perhaps the rabbis of the Va’ad might not be happy to learn that in all likelihood all the food they consume, includingContinue Reading

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By Rev. Barry Keatin, Maplewood Presbyterian Church , Edmonds My name is the Rev. Barry Keating and I am the minister of Maplewood Presbyterian Church in Edmonds, Wash. I am also one of the board members of the Washington State Holocaust Education and Resource Center. You published recently a wonderfulContinue Reading

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By Benjamin Pollock , , San Francisco, Calif. Jewish progressives like Richard Silverstein need to return to their roots and rediscover who is the true underdog in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is not Israel that needs the harsh prod of a boycott, excuse me, a divestment campaign to be pushedContinue Reading