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By Rosi Meier Benz , , Harstine Island Today (Jan. 27) is Holocaust Remembrance Day, I heard the TV anchor voice say over the grinding of coffee beans. The thought and visual seeped into my head as I watched the hot water filter through the Melitta paper-lined cone into myContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle Ron Kampeas’s insightful front page column was quite informative (“Clinton, lawmakers pushing for talks,” Jan. 15). The Palestinians are resisting returning to talks without pre-conditions as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for. No such conditions were made in prior negotiations. Israeli PrimeContinue Reading

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By Kate Lesser, , Seattle I just received the Jan. 15 edition of the JTNews. The front-page photo has a picture of a party. I was hoping for a picture of the Israeli emergency medical response team that is now in Haiti. I saw a picture of them hard atContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Moshe Kletenik and Rabbi Barry Freundel ,   Recent allegations of impropriety on the part of the founder and head of Eternal Jewish Family, an organization involved with potential converts to Judaism, have again focused the attention of the Jewish community on the conversion process. Rather than dwellContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, Chai Center of Greater Seattle Your list of wishes and hopes for the coming year are probably exactly the same as mine. No doubt high on that list are the important “big ones:” Peace in Israel and the world at large, financial stability, safety in ourContinue Reading

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By Susan Monas, President, Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle As president of the board of Congregation Beth Shalom, I was dismayed to see the recent heading in the JTNews “Meet the Synagogue” (Special section, Dec. 25). Given the many choices of synagogues in Seattle, I wondered how the synagogues listed wereContinue Reading

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By Richard Silverstein, , Seattle I would like to correct two errors in Leyna Krow’s otherwise excellent report on the Iran-Israel conference I organized at Town Hall on December 16 (“Iran, from the left,” Dec. 25). First, there were over 100 people in attendance, not 40 as Krow reported. Second,Continue Reading

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By Rabbi Bruce Kadden, Temple Beth El, Tacoma Like most rabbis, I often speak to non-Jewish groups who want to learn more about Judaism. One of the most common questions I get is: “What do Jews believe about Jesus?” Although most Christians understand that we do not believe he wasContinue Reading

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By Lawrence Black, , Seattle After reading the Jewish Federation’s response to the Haq guilty verdict, I had the following angry reaction: I saw no condemnation of Islamic extremist ideology/Muslim hatred — the motivation and driving force of Haq’s actions. The Federation is against “hatred” in general — so MuslimContinue Reading

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By Rachelle Baruch, , Cincinnati, Ohio I want to thank Yehuda Reinhartz for his lovely article (“The need to fill the holes,” Nov. 27). I found it inspiring and hopeful.  Thank you for publishing it.  Continue Reading

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By Carole Glickfeld, , Seattle The new movie An Education is about a predator, a man who brings in black people to a neighborhood in order to scare old ladies into moving out so he can acquire the property cheaply. He also preys upon a 16-year-old young woman. This wouldContinue Reading

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By Elliott Magalnick, , Denver, Colo. I read the article, or rather parts of the article “Holiday Stuffing” (Nov. 27), treats and eats for gifts, but being Jewish, I read it backwards as I do with many magazines. I was reading about fish and the naming of some local stores’Continue Reading

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By Dr. Rafael Medoff , Special to JTNews “Just kids being kids.” That’s what one grandparent said after learning that students at a middle school in Naples, Fla. last month staged “Kick a Jew Day.” “Not anti-Semitic behavior at all.” That’s what the principal of a middle school in aContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Josh Hearshen, It seems that only yesterday we were all standing in our synagogues awaiting the final tekiyah of the High Holy Days and looking forward to speeding off to our break-fast meals. It is incredible how quickly our days go by, and how quickly we pass throughContinue Reading

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By Paula Begoun , Special to JTNews Editor’s Note: Seattle businesswoman Paula Begoun, founder of Paula’s Choice skin care products, regularly travels to remote destinations and has often visited Chabad Houses in different countries. Before leaving for a trip to Mumbai, her second, at the end of last month, sheContinue Reading

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By Rabbi Jessica Marshall, Temple Beth Or Lying in bed, the soft dawn light peeking in through my curtains, still in that state between being asleep and awake, I listen to the sound of softly falling rain. My visions of a morning run in the sunlight foiled again. As aContinue Reading

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By Josh Basson, , Seattle Leslie Susser’s insightful front-page column was quite informative (“Implications of Israeli inquiry into Goldstone,” Oct. 30). Susser rightly points out that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces one of the most acute dilemmas since his return to power last March. Also, “the key question ignored byContinue Reading

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By Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller, , Seattle I noticed on the front page of the October 30 JTNews a little note that said, “Celebrate Women! page 12.” I turned to page 12 and what I found was an article about a female singer ejected from the Arts & Entertainment section surrounded byContinue Reading