A center

By Rabbi Jonathan Singer, Temple Beth Am, Seattle I am thankful for the coverage of our fabulous new K'hilah center. It is a beautiful addition to

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A response

By Hilary G. Bernstein, Interim Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Region, Anti-Defamation League, I was dismayed to read the letter from Faith T

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A danger

By Dr. Noah Friedland, , Seattle Not all change is for the better. The Seattle Kollel and its acolytes represent a foothold in our city for a dange

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Joel Magalnick

A hands-on education

By Leah Finn, Special to JTNews A year ago, University of Washington International Studies major Talya Gillman was looking forward to spending her

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Torah, Torah, Torah

By Daniel Levisohn, Assistant Editor, JTNews For Jewish learners, a Torahthon is a bit like Lollapalooza. Rather than packing dozens of tattooed m

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Judy Balint

Dog days

By Judy Lash Balint, Special to JTNews Less than two years ago, Martin Pittman sat across the table from me at a Tully’s café in Seward Park

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All about education

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It's a purple garden in a purple house. The purple house is real. It's Ruz Gulko's home in Bellevue and a local

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An open book

David Williams, a second-generation Seattle author writes about the natural world outside his own front door. Jane Isenberg solves murders in and arou

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Love’s bites

The central dynamic of mixed-faith romantic comedies, as every Woody Allen fan knows, is a wild and crazy Jewish character acting as a liberating cata

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Mark Stern

Mark Stern died on July 28, 2007 in Mountain View, Calif., surrounded by his family. He was born on May 28, 1974 in Seattle. Mark grew up on Mercer I

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Maya Leah Federman

Maya celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on September 1, 2007 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Maya is the daughter of Tammy and

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Samuel Z. Epstein

Sam will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on October 20, 2007 at Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation in Seattle. Sam is the son of Karen and Dr. Stuart Epstei

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Chaos theory

Editor’s note: Since this piece was published, director and playwright Charles Waxberg, who had joined the company as artistic director, has sin

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