A spiritual security alarm

By Rabbi Mordechai Farkash, Congregation Beis Menachem - Lubavitch As any good homeowner knows, it's not the little boxes with the flashing lights

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On the list

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews A vote on May 30 by Britain’s University and College Union, the country’s largest teachers union, wou

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Relationship building

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Early August brought together the Seattle Chamber of Commerce with local Jewish community members. They were

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The added ingredient

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we prepare to dip that apple in honey and to get into gear for major honey cake baking, I

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A time of rebirth

By Paul Steinberg, JTA News & Features DALLAS (JTA) — Rosh Hashanah is a time of rebirth. However, this fall holiday brings a different sort of reb

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Daniel Levisohn

A monster unleashed

"I haven’t seen people in Seattle this excited about anything," says my date to the new Mel Brooks Broadway musical Young Frankenstein, which h

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Courtesy Hillel

Defined by September 11

By Thea Chard, other As a child growing up in a traditional, East Coast family, Rabbi Jacob Fine never thought he would one day become a theologian

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Achieving our potential

Life is a Test, the latest book from Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, opens with a quotation: "All that befalls us in this world, the good as well as the b

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Finding out “how”

Helen Weber wanted to know how — "how Germany and the other countries did what they did" in the Jewish extermination campaign, Operation Reinhard and

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First responders

By Barbara Fraser, JTA News & Features LIMA, Peru (JTA) — A small storage area off the courtyard of Leon Pinelo School is piled high with boxes and

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In no one’s interest

By Ron Kampeas, JTA News & Features Ron Kampeas JTA News & Features WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rudolph Giuliani’s foreign policy is neither a bluepr

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Kara Rose Glass

Kara will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 25, 2007 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue. Kara is the daughter of Sandy and Ken Glass of Mercer I

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Sophia Cohanim

Sophia celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on August 18, 2007 at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth in Seattle. Sophia is the daughter of Bobby and Beth Cohanim of M

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Makena Flory Owens

Makena celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on August 11, 2007 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue. Makena is the daughter of Craig Owens and Tammy Abravanel

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Rachel Maren Kahn

Rachel will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on September 1, 2007 at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle. Rachel is the daughter of Mindy Cohen and Barry Kah

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