Living a life of prayer

By Rabbi Will Berkovitz , Hillel at the University of Washington Before I moved to Seattle I used to work in Las Vegas. I wasn't a dealer at the B

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Making Purim modern

By Rabbi Zari Weiss , Special to JTNews Many of us are familiar with the story told at Purim. A young maiden, Esther, is taken by the king to be h

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A teachable moment

By Bernard Gray, , Bellevue I am compelled to write to you regarding an article by Bar Mitzvah teacher Ted Roberts (?Confessions of a Bar Mitzvah t

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Prayer, but not there

By Albert Feldmann, , Seattle In her ?What?s your JQ? article, (?Three prayers and an airport,? Feb.17), Mrs. Kletenik replied to an inquiry about

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Philanthropists unite!

By Nancy F. Geiger, Interim Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Seattle Some non-profit reform issues being considered b

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Open the doors

By Shelomo Alfassa, Executive Director, International Sephardic Leadership Council, In recent weeks, Iran has gone against the UN and has motioned

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Offensive justifications

By Josh Basson , , Seattle The informative article by Andrew Silow-Carroll (?Looking for honesty in the Muslim world,? Feb. 17) raises some importa

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Not ready for statehood

By Josh Basson , , Seattle The front page informative article by Ron Kampeas (?Cracks emerge over aid to Palestinians,? Feb. 3) highlights some of

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The importance of unity

By Neil Goldberg, , The Palestinian majority has made their choice. More difficult days are ahead for Israel. Unified Jewish support for Israel is

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We’re going elsewhere

By Larry Jassen, , Seattle Do the Jews of Seattle have as much conviction as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani? Now is our opportunity to decide.

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Growing pains

By Rachelle Baruch , , Kirkland I find Nechemia Meyers? article (?Drug Ring Shatters Dreams?, Jan. 6) personally thought provoking, as I, also, was

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The sins of the brothers

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, We have just finished 12 weeks in the Torah reading service of the book of Bereshit '

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