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A personal story from a Bellevue rabbi underscores the gravity of the situation facing our state and the families hurt by the lingering economic downturn.… Posted December 7, 2011
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David Dabscheck
JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — The flurry of commentary about an outbreak of hostilities between Iran and the United States or Israel has overlooked a critical… Posted November 22, 2011
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Wendy Rosen
Special to JTNews
Now, there’s no doubt about it. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states in its chilling new report on Iran that while it has not… Posted November 10, 2011
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Rafael Medoff
JTA World News Service
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Most American Christian leaders strongly condemned the Kristallnacht pogrom that the Nazis carried out against Germany’s Jews 73 years ago this week,… Posted November 9, 2011
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Elie Kaunfer
JTA World News Service
DENVER (JTA) — I want to challenge one of the mainstay assumptions of organized Jewish life: Jewish continuity is the end goal, and everything is… Posted November 9, 2011
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Rabbi Will Berkovitz
Special to JTNews
Hope has feathers, that reason is a plank, that life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye. —Billy Collins… Posted October 26, 2011
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Avi Dichter
JTA World News Service
Ashkelon, Israel (JTA) — Turkey, long one of Israel’s more stable and supportive partners in the region, expelled Israel’s ambassador. In Egypt, a peaceful partner… Posted October 10, 2011
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Rabbi Stuart Light
Special to JTNews
As parents searching for the ideal school environment for our children, we envision our progeny thriving in a school that focuses energy and attention on… Posted September 28, 2011
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Michael J. Weil
JTA World News Service
(JTA) — Israelis and Jews around the world are awaiting the Palestinians’ push at the United Nations for statehood with trepidation. The official response of… Posted September 14, 2011
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Mervyn Danker
J. Weekly of Northern California
SAN FRANCISCO (j.weekly) — To establish its independence, Israel had to win a war against the combined might of the Arab nations in 1948. The… Posted September 14, 2011
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Robert J. Marx
JTA World News Service
Reflecting on the King memorial
Posted September 14, 2011
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ST. LOUIS (JTA)—American Jews are known for the emphasis they place on academic success. Jewish professors populate America’s universities, and, respectively, Jewish doctors, lawyers and… Posted August 30, 2011
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Lillian Faderman
The Advocate
Americans have every reason to envy Israel’s enlightened policies toward their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens. So it puzzles me deeply when I hear… Posted August 17, 2011
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Joel Alperson
JTA World News Service
OMAHA, Neb. (JTA) — A lot of my hometown of Omaha, Neb., was under water in the final days of July. Pumps were set down… Posted August 3, 2011
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Rabbi Eric Yoffie
JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — I have no patience for survival Judaism. Whenever I hear someone talk about what Jews must do in order to “survive,”… Posted August 3, 2011
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Ilana Cone Kennedy
Special to JTNews
I am honored to have recently been selected as a recipient of the Pamela Waechter Jewish Communal Service Award. Having known and admired Pam, this… Posted July 20, 2011
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Robert Wilkes
Special to JTNews
I can only imagine what my grandfather experienced as a Jew in the Ukraine before he immigrated to America in 1905. In my earliest memories… Posted July 6, 2011
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Anav Silverman
Special to JTNews
Will the recognition and creation of a Palestinian state by the United Nations Security Council magically end Mideast unrest? Can the UN fulfill the role… Posted July 6, 2011
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Wendy Rosen
Special to JTNews
The “Arab Spring” that has already toppled autocracies in Tunisia and Egypt and threatens to do likewise to others, raises hope for a transition to… Posted June 3, 2011
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Rabbi Steven Wernick
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
One of Judaism’s most profound ideas is the notion that each year at Shavuot each of us stands at Mount Sinai, poised to receive the… Posted May 27, 2011
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