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January 21, 20150

Nisman mystery: Hezbollah, Argentine gov’t fingered in death of AMIA prosecutor

By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) – The mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman seems ripped straight out of a crime t

January 20, 20150

Seattle’s oldest synagogue makes way for a youth-full future

By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent After five decades as a synagogue, youth facility, and multi-purpose space, the Yavneh building on Co

January 20, 20150

With new project, JFS leans into Jewish text

Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent At Jewish Family Service, 2015 will be a time to start deepening the 123-year-old organization’s connectio

January 16, 20150

The only kosher butcher shop in Cuba

By Zachary Solomon, Jewniverse/JTA World News Service For the kashrut-observant Cuban, there’s only one place to go for a piece of meat. Situate

January 15, 20150

Cue the lights: ACT to stage JDS student’s play

By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent Watch out, Oscar Wilde. Move aside, George Bernard Shaw. Here comes Danielle Kohorn. A short play writ

January 13, 20150

Charlie Hebdo columnist was killed for being Jewish, cousin says

(JTA) -- A Charlie Hebdo columnist was killed because she was Jewish, the victim's cousin said. Elsa Cayat was the only woman killed in the targete

January 12, 20150

Victims of supermarket attack remembered at Paris synagogue

PARIS (JTA) — Hundreds gathered with the leaders of France and Israel to remember the victims of an attack at a kosher supermarket near Paris. Fr

January 9, 20150

Several hostages killed in police raids on Paris sites

(JTA) — Several hostages were killed as simultaneous police raids on Friday ended the two hostage crises in Paris, one of which was at a kosher superm

January 8, 20150

Op-Ed: HarperCollins must not contribute to delegitimization of Israel

By Daniel S. Mariaschin, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Before the HarperCollins Middle East atlas story is deleted from email inboxes,

January 8, 20151

Exploring the ‘Yiddish Atlantis’

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Underneath the rubble and ashes of Eastern Europe lies a buried civilization, and one of i

January 8, 20150

Spanish citizenship becomes a reality for Sephardic Jews

By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent Today, an estimated 40,000 Jews call Spain their home. But five centuries ago, the nation was home to

January 8, 20150

Discover Jewish Cuba with the Jewish Federation

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Not long after the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle announced it would be leading a de

January 8, 20150

What happened in 2014? Test your knowledge

By Joel Magalnick Editor, The Jewish Sound Now that 2015 has begun, what from the past year are you trying to forget? Fear not, because we’ve got 1

January 8, 20150

How kids can choose their literature, one Jewish book at a time

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Over the past six years, hundreds of families throughout the Puget Sound region have taken advantage of

January 7, 20150

Jewish cartoonist Georges Wolinski among 12 dead in Paris shooting

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA) — An attack on the Paris headquarters of a French satirical magazine has left at least 12 people de

January 7, 20150

Northwest Yeshiva High School: A Jewish Model U.N.

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Northwest Yeshiva High School, a coed Orthodox school for grades 9 through 12, is somewhat of a Jew

January 7, 20150

A trip to remember, for remembrance’s sake

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound They’ve done this trip before, but this summer, the Holocaust Center for Humanity is doing something ne

January 7, 20150

Fleeing Cuba was the third narrow escape for a doctor from Transylvania

By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent For one Bellevue retiree, President Obama’s decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba rekin

January 7, 20151

Derech Emunah: A place for girls to grow into themselves

By Tori Gottlieb, Jewish Sound Correspondent For families who wanted their daughters to have an Orthodox Jewish high school education in a single-g

January 6, 20150

Streit’s closing Lower East Side matzah factory after 90 years

NEW YORK (JTA) -- Streit’s said it will close the company's 90-year-old matzah factory on New York's Lower East Side. Aron Streit, Inc., a family-o

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