By Rabbi Mordechai Farkash, Congregation Beis Menachem - Lubavitch As any good homeowner knows, it's not the little boxes with the flashing lights
Read MoreBy Rabbi David Fine, Union for Reform Judaism The Jewish traditions and rituals surrounding the greatest of our joys — birth, reaching adulthood,
Read MoreBy Ami Eden , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman would have stood on much stronger intellectua
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Read MoreBy Rabbi Anson Laytner, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee, Seattle A number of people have asked me why I was in China so early and it
Read MoreBy Susan Alhadeff, , Seattle Manny Frishberg's reporting on the movie A Mighty Heart ("One of the unlucky ones," July 6) leaves open a question as
Read MoreBy Josh Basson , , Seattle Strengthening weakly Dan Baron's insightful front page column was quite informative ("Uncertainty hampers progress for I
Read MoreBy Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg , Special to JTNews The customs we observe on the day of Tisha B'Av are strikingly similar to those of an avel, a mou
Read MoreBy Sharon Asia Finegold, , Seattle Now that the play about Rachel Corrie has come and gone, the various executive directors of the organizations wh
Read MoreBy Philip R. Scheier, , Seattle I was quite touched by the unhappy plight of so-called Progressive Jews here in the soul-searching news report by y
Read MoreBy Akiva Kenny Segan , , Seattle While it is excellent that Pastor John Hagee is seeking "redemption" from Jews in return for his Christian commun
Read MoreBy Randy Kessler, , Mercer Island Thanks to Janis Siegel and the JTNews for the excellent coverage of the recent Night to Honor Israel event put on
Read MoreBy Rabbi Bernie Fox, Northwest Yeshiva High School Every year I have the honor and pleasure to deliver a charge to the Northwest Yeshiva High Scho
Read MoreBy Gidi Grinstein , JTA News & Features TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Hamas coup in Gaza may seem like a victory for Iran and its followers, who now ha
Read MoreBy Daniel Pipes , Special to JTNews The Hamas victory over Fatah in Gaza on June 14 has great importance for Palestinians, for the Islamist moveme
Read MoreBy Josh Basson, , Seattle Daniel Levisohn's insightful column was quite informative ("Forty years later," June 8). Levisohn points out that revisi
Read MoreBy Murray Meld, , Seattle Thank you for the June 8th issue's balanced account of the planned "Occupation Game" weekend sponsored, among others, by
Read MoreBy Elad Moisseiev, M.D., Captain, "Egoz" unit, Israel My tour with the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces and the ensemble is over, and I am ba
Read MoreBy Dave Kaplan, , Seattle This new group that bring together people who were expelled from Middle Eastern countries ("Seeking redress," May 25) is
Read MoreBy Rabbi Cindy Enger, Congregation Beth Israel, Bellingham Regarding Torah, the Mishna reminds us, "Turn it and turn it again; everything is in it
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