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By Jack Fackerell, , Redmond I want to respond to the article written by Tzippy Wiens titled “Killing Animals” (Jew-ish Magazine, Dec. 23). I realize that most people do eat animals and I praise the article for being very open and upfront about what happens to animals and how theyContinue Reading

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By Alan L. Barer, , Kirkland Thank you for your article in the November 25 edition by Diana Brement about Sharon Kaufman-Osborn of Whitman College in Walla Walla (“Advising Jewish students at Whitman College“). By her willpower and effort she revived a Jewish community dating back to the 1860s thatContinue Reading

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By Betsy R. Schneier, Past President, Washington State Jewish Historical Society, Seattle On behalf of executive board of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society, thanks so much for the wonderful article about our recent program, Heroes Making History (“Stories of the front,” Dec. 9). The speakers truly represent the bestContinue Reading

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By Lisa Schuchman, , Seattle Thank you for the Books, Movies, Music and Food section from November 18! While reading it I moved to my computer to reserve four of the books from the library (luckily they have them). So many good ideas — I appreciate it!  Continue Reading

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By Robert G. Kaufman, , Seattle Here are some observations on the Olympia Food Co-op boycott controversy described in the Nov. 11 issue of JTNews (“Israel critics use courts to protect their speech“). I attended the public meeting in Olympia before the board vote and along with others was givenContinue Reading

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By Kate Lesser, , Seattle The “Books,” etc. edition of the JTNews (Nov. 18) has just arrived. I would prefer not to see a picture of a swastika, and a man holding a gun on the front cover. There must be a better way to go.  Continue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Joel Magalnick for his perceptive column “Seattleites win education prize“ (Nov. 11) as very informative. Glad to hear that Robert Beiser, the campus/Jconnect director was recognized nationally by the Covenant Foundation and awarded a prize of $15,000 over the next three years toContinue Reading

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By Nevet Basker, , Bellevue I congratulate Rabbi Kinberg on her insightful column (“We need to let the world know how we really feel about Israel,” Oct. 28). She is correct to observe that a millennia-long connection to the land of Israel, and contemporary caring about the future of theContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle Your front page article by Uriel Heilman (“Shalit deal was best Israel was going to get,” Oct. 14) was quite informative. The illegal kidnapping and hostage taking by Hamas terrorists of Shalit in a June 2006 raid along the Israel-Gaza border aroused enormous concern andContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Anson Laytner, , Seattle Does the Israeli government — or ours for that matter — see the sad irony in opposing votes at the UN regarding the recognition of a Palestinian state? Where would Israel be today were it not for the votes taken in 1947? Yet hereContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Mervyn Danker for his perceptive op-ed column (“A Palestinian state should be the result of negotiations,” Sept. 16) as right on the mark. Abbas needs to negotiate directly with Netanyahu without pre-conditions and accept Israel as a Jewish state. Also, the creation ofContinue Reading

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By Cynthia Wroclawski, Manager, The Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In response to Eric Nusbaum’s article of Sept. 13, 2011 titled “The Family Reunion,” the article neglects to mention that the reunion was made possible thanks to a Page of Testimony submitted by Wolf Hall to YadContinue Reading

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By Mordecai Goldstein, , Everett I agree with the letter writer (“Taking up too much space,” Sept. 16) who said we must not permit agents of our enemies to use our limited resources (i.e., print space in JTNews). And we should not forget that we do have enemies, and notContinue Reading

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By Bob Kaufman, , Seattle In his stirring speech to the Sept. 18 StandWithUs gathering, Rabbi Daniel Gordis criticized American Jewish leaders for their silence on the coming UN vote on Palestinian statehood. The op-eds by Michael Weil and Mervyn Danker in the Sept. 16 JTNews provide ample evidence toContinue Reading

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By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle If it weren’t an Orwell-worthy twist of language interpretation, re: letter writer N. Goldberg’s claim that I am “not about free speech” after I’ve written in defense of JTNews editors for publishing letters with diverse opinions regarding Israel and the Palestinians, it would beContinue Reading

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By N. Goldberg, , Bellevue Mr. Segan’s letter (“A free and open press,” Sept. 2) evades the issue, and begs for a reply. He is not about free speech. He wants the JTNews to be some sort of guardian of anti-Israel commentary and positions, even if those positions are identicalContinue Reading

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By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle As an occasional-to-frequent pro-Israel advocate in the JTNews letters section — my first letter on Israel and the conflict was in 1999, the year I made my first teaching trip to Israel; my most recent followed my seventh teaching Israel teaching trip this MayContinue Reading

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By Goldie Gendler Silverman, , Seattle In a letter on August 19 (“No more criticism“), Michael Behar asked, “Would it be too much to expect that Washington’s sole Jewish newspaper serve as an unapologetic advocate of the Jewish State?” The answer to that question is, Yes, it is far tooContinue Reading

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By Jerry Shulkin, , Mercer Island I most recently attended an elaborate and impressive Bat Mitzvah. That prompted my daughter to ask about my Bar Mitzvah almost 70 years ago in Minot, North Dakota. At its height during the early ’40s the congregation numbered about 40 families. This year aContinue Reading