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Barack on Israel

By Ron Kampeas, JTA News & Features WASHINGTON (JTA) - An Obama administration would cultivate close relations with Israel, but would also hear out

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Telling our story

By Rabbi Elana Zaiman, Special to JTNews When I was around 12 years old, I wrote a letter to my grandfather, my father’s father, a rabbi, and

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In search of symbolism

By Linda Morel, JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Like skilled novelists, Jewish cooks miss no opportunity for symbolism. Think of Hanukkah latk

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The Pesach pledge

By Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky and Liz Marcovitz, JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Whether in prayer or conversation, the words we use are not taken

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All together now

By Leyna Krow, Assistant Editor, JTNews For the past seven years, Rabbi Ted Falcon of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, Reverend Don Mackenzie of the

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Welcoming the stranger

By Gideon Aronoff, JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Immigration restrictionists frequently charge that American Jewish attitudes about immigrat

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Emory Klein & Matthew Rubin

Emory and Matthew are engaged to be married in October 2008 in Seattle. Emory's aunt, Rabbi Elka Abrahamson of Columbus, Ohio, will officiate the cere

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Alexander Levi Klarman

Robyn and Barry Klarman announce the birth of their son Alexander Levi on February 29, 2008 at Providence Everett Medical Center. Alexander weighed 6

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Ansara Miller

Ansara will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on May 24, 2008 at Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue. Ansara is the daughter of Chuck and Debbie Miller of Whidbey I

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A Passover thought:

By Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, Chai Center of Seattle As I prepare to sit down to the seder again with family and guests, I think about a question on

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For future generations

By Delila Simon, Co-Executive Director Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, For our Board of Directors, our staff, our supporters

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The demanding dash

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy: I love Pesach — once I'm sitting at the seder, that is. Until that point, the rush and the pa

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New faces of leadership

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Sam Perlin, a sports guy by his own admission, has leapt into a new position as director of Camp Solomon Schech

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Facing addiction head-on

By Morris Malakoff, JTNews Correspondent [Editor’s note: The date for the first AA meeting has been changed from June 26 to June 24.] The pai

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News Briefs – April 18

By JTNews Staff, other Mission to Israel The Pacific Northwest Region of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism is hosting a biennial mission

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