By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Food, glorious food. We eat it. We take pleasure from it. We love to serve it to others. And with such a food-foc
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Lifelong Seattle resident Saul Rivkin, M.D. received Bank of America's Local Hero award in a ceremony at the Se
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Matthew will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on December 1, 2007 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Matthew is the son of Cindy
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Isaac will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on December 1, 2007 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Isaac is the son of Christa an
Read MoreBy Cynthia Gamel, , Seattle tched our Jewish community undergo many changes. Some that I've agreed with and some that I haven't. One that I became
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By , JTNews Correspondent Programs throughout the Puget Sound region are popping up to provide activities for older adults. One, Endless Opportunit
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By Sheilah Kaufman , Special to JTNews Hanukkah is one of my favorite holidays. To me it is a sign that winter is partly over; and the lighting of
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By , other He could see the pilot’s face. That’s how close Arthur Rolfe was to the Japanese fighter pilot at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Many
Read MoreBy Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent With its expansion into the Pacific Northwest, the seven-year-old Israel advocacy organization StandWithUs
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Not everything that happened as a result of September 11, 2001 was a tragedy. Although 9/11 has taken on a
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By , other For 10 days this past October, Nick Coddington, a history teacher at the private Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma and a retired senior N
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By Dani Hemmat, Special to JTNews d injustice, will you have the courage to speak out?” The question, posed by Holocaust survivor Robbie Waisman, l
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