Maxfield Naoyuki Yamasaki

Max will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on August 25, 2007 at Temple B'nai Torah in Bellevue. Max is the son of Aleen Caplan Yamasaki of Edmonds and Tsugu

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Ari Benjamin Rogers

Ari celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on August 15, 2007 at Gate House in Lafayette, Colo. Ari is the son of Joel and Dr. Ruth Lieberman Rogers of Lafayette

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From recovery to renaissance

By Gail Naron Chalew, JTA News & Features NEW ORLEANS (JTA) — The Jewish community of New Orleans has used the two years since Hurricane Katrina no

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Looking over his shoulder

By Leslie Susser, JTA News & Features JERUSALEM (JTA) — After his overwhelming victory in the Likud’s leadership primary last week, Benjamin

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Joel Magalnick

Jewish Community Festival

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Parts of Bellevue Downtown Park turned into a swamp, and it took a few hours before the rain gave up, but by late

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Joel Magalnick

One year later…

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews On the calendar, it has been a year. But for the survivors of the shooting and the people in their lives closest

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Leon Benson Levy

Leon Benson Levy died on July 4, 2007. He was born on November 19, 1915 to Sadie and Sol G. Levy. Leon grew up in Port Angeles, where he became the f

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Lessons learned

By Rabbi David Fine, Union for Reform Judaism The Jewish traditions and rituals surrounding the greatest of our joys — birth, reaching adulthood,

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The anti-Darwinist

By Daniel Levisohn, Assistant Editor, JTNews Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblum is unequivocal. He says his fight isn’t with science. It’s with “

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Libby Epstein

Libby Epstein, 92, died on March 2, 2007 at the Caroline Kline Galland Home in Seattle. Libby was born and raised in Seattle, where she graduated fro

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The Orthodox paradox

By Ami Eden , JTA News & Features NEW YORK (JTA) — Harvard University law professor Noah Feldman would have stood on much stronger intellectua

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Madeleine Sarah Mark

Maddie celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on June 23, 2007 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle. Rabbi Daniel Weiner officiated.  Maddie is the daughter

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