Jews on Whidbey

By Rabbi Charna Klein , , Seattle Regarding Diana Brement's M.O.T. column ("Journalist is lay leader of Whidbey NAS," Dec. 19, 2008): The story ab

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The state of food

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews H. Eric Schockman knows things are bad when the people that used to volunteer or donate to the food banks he work

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Ariel Glassman

Ethics, insanity and the law

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent “He’s crazy!” “Meshugena!” “You must be out of your mind!” People make statements like this all t

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Faye Schulman, courtesy USHMM

A complicated history

By Leyna Krow, Assistant Editor, JTNews Before previews for the film Defiance started popping up in movie theaters around the country, most America

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Joel Magalnick

A man of tradition

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Dr. Aaron Witz might have been satisfied being a general pediatrician, were it not for his friends. As Witz finis

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Courtesy Judith Fein

Hanukkah behind bars

By Judith Fein, Special to JTNews It was winter in northern New Mexico. Christmas lights fringed the adobe walls in downtown Santa Fe, the Salvatio

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David Volk

Finding Jewish Morocco

By David Volk, Special to JTNews The Internet isn’t especially helpful when you want to visit Jewish Morocco. Oh sure, there are quite a few

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Thank you to our clergy

By Rainer Waldman Adkins, Barbara Lahav , Seattle chapter, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Seattle Members of the Seattle chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom (Je

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The abridged version

There are any number of ways, from exploitation to trivialization to stultifying pretension, to bungle a film about the Holocaust and its repercussion

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One step at a time

By Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, Temple B'nai Torah This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, said the Lo

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Letter from the editor

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews, Karen Chachkes, Publisher, JTNews, Seattle As the year draws to a close, all of us at the JTNews and jew-ish.com

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Beating the Hanukkah humdrum

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Every year we do the same thing for Hanukkah — light the candles, make a few latkes. I know t

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Courtesy AJC

If you will it

By Marilyn Meyer, Special to JTNews Having been a high school English teacher for more than 30 years, I’m often struck by the themes pervasiv

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