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By Rabbi Berry Farkash, Chabad of the Central Cascades I encountered the following story on several Web sites: A number of years ago at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard dash. At the gun, they all startedContinue Reading

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By Richard Fruchter, President, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Ron Leibsohn, Board Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Seattle Over the last two years, the economy has taken its toll on our Jewish community and many of its vital organizations that provide important services. We are not alone in seeingContinue Reading

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By Richard Silverstein , Special to JTNews Robert Wilkes, in the last issue of JTNews, wrote this about me: …Many American [Jews]…support pro-Palestinian groups and the BDS movement…and seek to delegitimize Israel. They employ tropes such as “apartheid” and “Israeli-Nazi war machine” to create a smokescreen of twisted facts andContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Jill Borodin, Congregation Beth Shalom “Luchot v’shivre luchot menuchim ba’aron” — “The whole tablets and the broken tablets rested inside the Ark of the Covenant” (Babah Batra 14b). The whole and the broken rest together in our sacred covenant. This past week we read in our Torah portionContinue Reading

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By Robert Wilkes, , Bellevue David Shayne’s otherwise excellent column defending the IDF against the truly scurrilous charge of war crimes has a statement that I strongly object to (“Dishonest message could have promoted hate crimes,” Jan. 14). He writes, “If the IDF deserves to be singled out, it isContinue Reading

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By David Shayne, , Seattle Re: Mr. Wilkes’ letter (whom, for sake of full disclosure, I consider a dear friend) in which he took understandable umbrage at my remarks about My Lai and Haditha, I am truly sorry my words were understood the way he did. He states, “I amContinue Reading

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By Ron Cohen, , Netanya, Israel Did it occur to you that boycotting Israel means that you are wishing for your family to starve (“Standing with her grandchild,” Letters, Jan. 14)? If you read the “not-so-fine print” of the platform of Evergreen radicals you will see that the “two-state solution”Continue Reading

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By Eric Leibman, , Portland, Ore. Are any of you, and by that I mean Jews and other members of the pro-Israel community, bothered by the fact your tax dollars are being extracted from you to help fund Evergreen State College’s virulently anti-Israel and personally threatening academic environment (“Evergreen: TheContinue Reading

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By Rabbi James Mirel, Co-chair, Seattle MAZON benefit, Seattle Thank you to the JTNews for co-sponsoring the annual MAZON Hanukkah benefit. Your beautiful ad and promotional material enabled us to fill the room to capacity and to raise over $14,000 for MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. Thanks also toContinue Reading

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By Akiva Kenny Segan, , Seattle As a regular visitor to Israel to guest teach (six trips since 1999 — my next is this April) and as an American Jewish artist and educator whose educational artworks on the Holocaust have been exhibited around the region, editor Joel Magalnick’s article (“ProvocativeContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle I commend Joel Magalnick for his insighful article (“Provocative bus ads go to highest levels of county government,” Dec. 24). Edward Mast’s bus ads are misleading and factually in error. Refusing hate speech is not censorship but a matter of common decency. This means theContinue Reading

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By Emily Weisberg, , Olympia Since a resolution in favor of divesting from the Israeli occupation of Palestine passed at Evergreen last year, tensions have run high. I understand it may be difficult for those who disagree to speak up. I have been in many positions where my opinion isContinue Reading

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By Hilda Maggie Weisberg, , Bellingham I am the grandmother of Emily Weisberg, whom you recently dubbed the “enemy,” (“Letter to the enemy,” Dec. 24) I am appalled you believe that someone who protests Israeli policy must be anti-Israel, brainwashed or an “apostate.” Since when is critical thinking and compassionContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Avremi Yarmush, Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County As a child growing up, my father would always repeat an epithet of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (the author of the Tanya), that “One must live with the times.” He meant that when one learns the weekly Torah portion,Continue Reading

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By Richard Fruchter, President, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Ron Leibsohn, Board Chair, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, As we all know, the economy is taking its toll on every segment of our community. We all hear or read daily about the needs of Jewish people locally, in Israel andContinue Reading

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By Edward Alexander, , Seattle The most pertinent comment on the slanderous accusation approved by Metro for display on some of its buses was made by Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, in his testimony earlier this year before the UN Human Rights Council investigating IsraeliContinue Reading