News Briefs – June 12

By JTNews Staff, other Summer food drive Kids are out of school, summer meal programs are cutting back, and food bank shelves are famously sparse d

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Natalie Sara Frank

Natalie will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on June 13, 2009 at Temple B'nai Torah in Bellevue. Natalie is the daughter of Rona and Alex Frank of Bellevue

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Struggling for balance

By Leyna Krow, Assistant Editor, JTNews The Evergreen College in Olympia has a long-standing track record of sympathy for the plight of the Palesti

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Abbi Evanna Weiss

Abbi will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on June 20, 2009 at Herzl-Ner Tamid on Mercer Island. Abbi is the daughter of Gary and Caryn Weiss of Sammamish a

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Janis Siegel

A house, a home

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent There was no furniture to speak of in the 1960s-style, one-level, two- bedroom house as an electrician wande

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Jews at a crossroads

By Morris Malakoff, JTNews Correspondent When Rabbi Donniel Hartman speaks of “next year in Jerusalem,” he wants to make it clear he says so with m

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Courtesy Ted Falcon

Changing of the guard

By Leyna Krow, Assistant Editor, JTNews When Olivier BenHaim first met Rabbi Ted Falcon, founder and rabbi of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, 11 yea

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Courtesy Rabbi Moshe Kletenik/RCA

Hail to the chief

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews For 50 years, it was almost a given that the president of the Rabbinical Council of America would hail from in or

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Courtesy New City Theater

Letters left unsent

When Elizabeth Kenny first read the one-woman play The Last Letter, she was drawn right away to the World War II-era story of a mother writing a lette

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Minding the store

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent In 1856, Jewish immigrant Jacob Furth, a 16-year-old from Bohemia, came to America to work as a clerk. When h

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News Briefs – May 29

By JTNews Staff, other “The No-Cry Sleep Solution” Parenting educator and author Elizabeth Pantley shares her “No-Cry Sleep Solution,” step-by-step

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News Briefs – May 29

By JTNews Staff, other “The No-Cry Sleep Solution” Parenting educator and author Elizabeth Pantley shares her “No-Cry Sleep Solution,” step-by-step

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