By Ilyse Wagner, , Bellevue Growing up Jewish on Mercer Island, I often heard from others that it was a center of Jewish life in the Puget Sound ar
Read MoreBy Simcha Shtull, , Seattle This week President Obama will take the first overseas trip of his second term; it will be the first time since taking
Read MoreBy Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, Rabbi Emeritus, Sephardic Bikur Holim To my delight, I have noticed an encouraging trend of people who might not be reli
Read MoreBy Wendy Rosen , Special to JTNews This past July, a bomb went off in Burgas, Bulgaria, murdering five Israeli tourists and their Bulgarian bus dr
Read MoreBy Ben Cohen , JNS.org WASHINGTON, DC—The razzmatazz at this year's AIPAC policy conference couldn't quite mute the background murmurs about the o
Read MoreBy Rabbi Mark Glickman , Congregations Kol Ami and Kol Shalom "Nostalgia," Yogi Berra once quipped "isn't what it used to be." His insight proba
Read MoreBy Belinda Timpke"¨, , Tacoma Eitan Isaacson and Wendy Elisheva Somerson's op-ed ("Solidarity with Palestinian non-violent resistance," Feb. 8) is
Read MoreBy Iris Langman, , Mercer Island Hen Mazzig's account ("A sixth broken camera," Feb. 6) of the fracas at the talk by Iyad Burnat on the documentar
Read MoreBy David Shayne, , Seattle The tile of the Jewish Voice for Peace article "Palestinian non-violent resistance" is an oxymoron. The authors want th
Read MoreBy Philip R. Scheier, , Shoreline Re: your half-page, mind-numbing rationale by Eitan Isaacson and Wendy Elisheva Somerson of the Seattle chapter o
Read MoreBy Hen Mazzig , Special to JTNews I had been in Seattle and the U.S. only a few days when I heard that Palestinian Iyad Burnat, brother of the fil
Read MoreBy Eitan Isaacson and Wendy Elisheva Somerson , Special to JTNews On Sun., Jan. 13, the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, with Students U
Read MoreBy Rabbi Harry Zeitlin , Congregation Beth Ha'Ari Judaism has contributed a great deal to world civilization. We introduced the concept of ethical
Read MoreBy Rabbi Beth Singer, Temple Beth Am The Pacific Northwest was greatly honored this past month by a visit from the new president of the Union for
Read MoreBy Jorge Velez, , Seattle I pick up JTNews at Einstein's Bagel shop on Queen Anne Blvd. and enjoy the editorials. Regarding Rabbi Jaron Matlow's ed
Read MoreBy Abraham H. Foxman , Special to JTNews It is fitting that the United Nations, as part of the international commemoration of the Holocaust on Ja
Read MoreBy Kenneth Jacobson , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — For those of us who closely follow the progress in America in the battles against r
Read MoreBy Rabbi Jaron Matlow , Special to JTNews Many cultures observe a festival of lights in the darkest days of winter. For us it is Hanukkah, for oth
Read MoreBy David Plotnik, , Shoreline Seventeen years after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, we find ourselves debating the settlement of "E1." Rabin,
Read MoreBy Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, The Friendship Circle, Bronnie Ware, a registered nurse in Australia, did a fascinating study a couple of years ago. Sh
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