Matthew Isaiah Stern will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on December 15, 2007 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue. Matthew is the son of Bruce and Mauree
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By Leyna Krow, Assistant Editor, JTNews Itamar Marcus, director of Palestinian Media Watch, has spent the last 11 years scrutinizing Palestinian TV
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Zachary Miles Williams celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on September 1, 2007 at Temple Beth Shalom in Spokane, WA. Zachary is the son of Vickie and David W
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist What gives us inspiration? Moonlight on water? Flowers in bloom? In Carol Schiller's case, it would be the copi
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Pomegranates have a special place in Jewish culture and history: they are reputed to have 613 seeds, which symbolizes the 613 mitzvot in the Torah. Th
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA News & Features emerge from the Palestinian-Israeli talks this week came from neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, but fr
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By Leyna Krow, Assistant Editor, JTNews With any luck, by this time next year many observant Jews living in Seattle’s North end will have the
Read MoreBy Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The whole world, it seems, wants to bring light into the night during the dark winter months. But a weekend o
Read MoreBy Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent As national president of the American Jewish Committee, Richard Sideman has met with several world leaders
Read MoreBy JTNews Staff, other Ten steps to the inner you The Chabad Jewish Center of Snohomish County will host an 11-week course on the mystical view of
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By Andrew Muchin, Special to JTNews You could excuse the Jews of this seaside peninsula community for feeling a little haunted by the local Jewish
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By Dani Hemmat, Special to JTNews Every Thanksgiving, David Rabin serves turkey dinner to over 100 homeless people in Pioneer Square’s Occide
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Why does classical music matter? As the Seattle Opera announces the appointment of the Israeli conductor Asher Fisch to its newly created Principal Gu
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The reading and translation of each week’s Torah portion is the longest-running example of continuous performance in human history. Having been
Read MoreBy Ozzie Nogg, Special to JTNews You can read the Torah from beginning to end and not find a word about Hanukkah. There are paragraphs devoted to R
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By Leyna Krow, Assistant Editor, JTNews For most parents, children’s videos seem mind-numbing at best. But for Ron Wolf of Mercer Island, the
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By Mark Mietkiewicz, JTNews Columnist Hanukkah is less than a week away, but you can still shop for the best that Israel has to offer while helping
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