By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Rabbi Zevi Goldberg of Chabad of North Seattle drills cartilage from a ram’s horn at the organization’
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Israel, even more than the United States, is a nation of immigrants. Fewer than half the world’s Jew
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Northwest Yeshiva High School grad Gilah Kletenik spent eight weeks this summer on an Orthodox Union-sponsored
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Funny, I took the CD New Shabbos Waltz, David Grisman and Andy Statman’s sequel to their Songs of Our Fathers, for a "Jewish" album, but the di
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After Amy Levy’s suicide in 1888, Oscar Wilde wrote the following about her novel, Reuben Sachs: "Its directness, its uncompromising truth, its
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