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Lori and Haluk Ceyhun of Seattle welcomed Levi Demir and Jace Eren January 6, 2015, at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue. Levi weighed 6 lbs., 1 oz. and measured 19 1/2 in. Jace weighed 5 lbs., 6 oz. and measured 18 1/4 in. Levi and Demir’s grandparents are Ayse Esin andContinue Reading

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Tova and Chris Miller of Snohomish welcomed the first Jewish baby of 2015. Zachary Alex Miller was born January 4 at 12:46 p.m. at Providence Everett Hospital. He weighed in at 7 lbs., 6 oz. and measured 20 in. Not only does Zachary have the honor of being this year’sContinue Reading

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By Leah Falk, Jewniverse via JTA Looking for some relative peace and quiet in the Middle East? Look no farther than Akhzivland, a micronation on Israel’s northern coast, near Nahariya. Officially a mere 10,000 square meters, this tiny independent state is presided over by Eli Avivi, an Iranian expat who settled there in 1952. (After theContinue Reading

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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound See the winners of our Best of Everything survey here! Every year in our Best of Everything survey, we ask who your local heroes are. We’ve got a lot of heroes in this town, so we decided to give you the reasons behind aContinue Reading

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By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Till now, when discussing the horrors of our history — persecutions, pogroms, and of course, the Holocaust — with our children it has generally been a conversation about the past; the way things once were, far away times, the way people usedContinue Reading

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October 10, 1925 – January 20, 2015 Ruth Simon, 89, was born to Ralph and Jennie Kettleman and preceded in death by her husband Harry. She was the youngest of four siblings who all grew up in Seattle and attended Garfield High School. Ruth was a Seattle native through andContinue Reading

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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Four years into his job as Greenstein Family Executive Director of Hillel at the University of Washington, Rabbi Oren Hayon announced his resignation last week. Hayon, a Reform-ordained rabbi who spent many years in Texas before moving to Seattle, will be returning toContinue Reading

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By Kenneth Jacobson, JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA) — The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with theContinue Reading