No singing the blues

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Recent Oberlin College graduate Laura Kanter has received the Oberlin Hillel Award for Leadership in the Oberli

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UCM Films

SIFF in short

Hamdi & Maria (short) Rating: Outstanding Documentary — Israel — Subtitled This emotional short documentary work examines the efforts of Hamdi, a Pal

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A life spent searching

For most of his life, Jakob has been searching. As a young boy in Poland in 1942, Jakob watched from behind a fake wall as Nazi soldiers shot his pare

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Leyna Krow

Celebrating Lag B’Omer

By , other Joshua Kout, left, Joel Rothschild, center, and Mai Li Pittard jam during a Lag B’Omer celebration at the Ravenna Kibbutz, a Jewis

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Haq trial: Jury deadlocked?

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews A procedural question from the jury in the trial of Naveed Haq on Wednesday suggested that it may be deadlocked.

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News Briefs – May 30

By JTNews Staff, other Political liberalization in the Persian Gulf Joshua Teitelbaum, senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle

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The real catastrophe

By David Shayne , Special to JTNews The last JTNews featured an article about Norman Finkelstein's participation in local "Naqba" observances. Wh

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Ana Rae Elizabeth Miller

Ana celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on May 17, 2008 at Temple Beth Am. Ana is the daughter of Nancy Sapiro and Lincoln Miller of Seattle and the sister of

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Yaeli Egnal

Yaeli will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on June 7, 2008 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation. Yaeli is the daughter of Antony and

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Marc Jacob Moshcatel

Marc will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on May 31, 2008 at Temple B'nai Torah in Bellevue. Marc is the son of Michael and Susu Moshcatel of Seattle and th

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Eli McClintock-Shapiro

Eli celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on May 17, 2008 at Temple Beth Am. Eli is the son of Julie Shapiro and Shelly F. Cohen of Seattle and the brother of Le

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We all were at Sinai

By Rabbi Bruce Kadden, Temple Beth El We are approaching Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, as we continue to count the omer, taking us from the Exodus

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The obvious facts

By Jeffrey Weiser , , Redmond I don't have a problem with Prof. Finkelstein criticizing Israel's policies regarding the occupied territories, the S

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Raising questions

By David Brumer, Executive Committee StandWithUs Northwest, Seattle JTNews' coverage of Norman Finkelstein's May 8 University of Washington lecture

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