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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA) — My friend Alain Azria gave me a puzzled look when I told him, with some indignation and disbelief in my voice, that I had just heard talk of killing Jews at an unauthorized anti-Israel demonstration last month in Paris. A youngContinue Reading

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Rabbi Berele Paltiel Chabad of Snohomish County Just over two years ago, my wife Goldie and I with our two little girls moved from New York City to Edmonds, Wash. to run the Chabad of Snohomish County. It has been an exciting two years, meeting many wonderful people while learningContinue Reading

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I find it highly offensive that the Jewish Federation demanded that an NRA lobbyist be fired because he voiced his opinion that Jews should be against restrictive gun laws (“On anniversary of shooting, Jewish Federation tells NRA spokesman to step down”). The idea that the Holocaust could not have beenContinue Reading

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I am writing about my dismay over the fact that recently there were two separate solidarity events for Israel; the first taking place in Pioneer Square and the second at Congregation Beth Shalom. One was co-sponsored by the Orthodox congregations and the other co-sponsored by the Conservative, Reform and otherContinue Reading

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Marvin and Lore celebrated 60 years of marriage on July 11, 2014. They celebrated with a family Shabbat dinner at the home of Ronald and Barbara Coe, followed by services on Sat., July 12 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation with a Kiddush luncheon sponsored by their children, Greg Coe, RobertContinue Reading

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Jessica Epstein and Chaya Lieberman will be married August 10, 2014, at Roswell River Landing in Roswell, Ga. Rabbi H. David Rose will officiate. Jessica is the daughter of Laurence and Valerie Epstein of Mercer Island. She graduated from Northwest Yeshiva High School on Mercer Island and American Jewish UniversityContinue Reading

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By Rivy Kletenik, Jewish Sound Columnist Here I am in June of 1964, about to turn 6, holding my first Matryoshka doll. I am standing next to my twin, who is proudly displaying his cosmonaut. That wooden “little matron,” a gift from my parents’ trip to Russia, kicked off aContinue Reading

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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound One compared Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. Another showed what looked like a Jewish person eating a baby. These signs and others being carried at weekly rallies in Seattle’s Westlake Center protesting the now-ended war in Gaza spurred the localContinue Reading