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Distant replay
March 26, 20150

Jewish sports heroes will take center stage during Jewish Historical Society road show

The personalities and stories of Jewish sports heroes from across Washington State featured in the book “Distant Replay” will all be part of an intera

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Chiprut in car
March 12, 20150

One family’s thousand-year history, from Spain to Seattle and back again

By Barbara Winkelman, Special to The Jewish Sound Vivian Blum has a story to tell. It starts in Spain in the 900s, moves to Turkey in 1492, when th

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12th mensch
January 8, 20150

What happened in 2014? Test your knowledge

By Joel Magalnick Editor, The Jewish Sound Now that 2015 has begun, what from the past year are you trying to forget? Fear not, because we’ve got 1

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letters to the editor
December 8, 20140

In the actors’ studio (and behind the scenes) with the Jewish Transcript

By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Correspondent “It’s an interesting lens of the 20th century, but through the eyes of one world,” says Laura Ferri, d

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birmuelos
December 3, 20140

The little fried donut with a sweet history

By Shelley Adatto Baumgarten, Special to the Jewish Sound “What makes a fried donut a birmuelo?” I recall my then 9-year-old daughter asking me at

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Schoenfeld, Esfeld and Block
October 16, 20140

A look back at what Kline Galland was, and now is

The Kline Galland at 100 By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound When the Caroline Kline Galland home first opened on the shores of Lake Washi

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August 11, 20140

Exodus to Egypt: 100 years since the Turkish expulsion of the Jews

By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org This year marks the 100th anniversary of the expulsion of thousands of Jews from Turkish-ruled Palestine to Egypt, in a d

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August 6, 20140

On display at MOHAI: Jewish merchants’ impact on Washington State

 By Boris Kurbanov, Special to The Jewish Sound The history and tales of Jewish immigration to Washington is documented in an exhibit now on displa

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July 3, 20140

A mix of cultures in children’s books

By Rita Berman Frischer, Special to The Jewish Sound As the grandmother of cross-cultural Jewish children, I’m especially interested in how this ph

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June 12, 20140

Books in Brief: Our little-known history

By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist Cookbooks One might assume that “Eating the Bible” by Rena Rossner (Skyhorse, cloth, $24.95) would give you

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May 8, 20140

Each May, Jewish history and American history collide

By Robert Gluck, JNS.org    Dr. Gary P. Zola sees an inextricable connection between American Jewish history, American history, and global

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Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler
March 24, 20140

A master scholar will help make Torah more ‘user-friendly’

Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Capping a year-long effort to repair and re-scribe its Torah while celebrating its 10th anniversary, Congr

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Courtesy Seattle Jewish Film Festival
February 13, 20140

Who was Joe Papp? One life, five acts

Michael Fox, Special to JTNews The vitality and unpredictability of the streets infuses every minute of "Joe Papp in Five Acts," Tracie Holder and

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