Palestinian Flag Flies over Camp Solomon Schechter
Campers expressed sadness and anger at Palestinian flag flying over storied Jewish camp.
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VANCOUVER FEDERATION BOOKS DIVISIVE ISRAELI ARTIST FOR YOM HA’ATZMAUT BASH
What should have been a day of unity for Vancouver BC’s Jewish community has become a day of controversy.
AKIM: Providing Pride & Dignity for Israelis with Special Needs.
Barri Rind is used to fighting for a cause when the cause is right. Born in Jerusalem, she has resided in the Seattle area for the past 36 years. A mother of three… Continue reading
Three Generations Uncover Their Jewish Southern Roots. Part 6: New Orleans
The Owen family, three generations traveling together on a Jewish roots tour of the old South were approaching the end of their eight day, 800 miles long trail, that began in the city of Charleston. Today, Ruben… Continue reading
THREE GENERATIONS UNCOVER THEIR JEWISH SOUTHERN ROOTS. PART 5: SELMA
The Owen family, Ruben, his two sons Jacob and Rabbi Benjy and grandson Jeffrey pondered the sacred ground where they stood. On Thursday, March 25th, 1965, some fifty years earlier on that same… Continue reading
Three Generations Uncover Their Jewish Southern Roots. Part 4: Montgomery
The Owen family; Ruben, his sons Rabbi Benjy and Jacob and his grandson Jeffrey set forth on a nine day journey to discover the Sephardic and American history of the deep South. Tuesday morning,… Continue reading
Three Generations Uncover their Jewish Southern Roots. Part 3: Atlanta
Ruben Owen with his two sons, Jacob and Rabbi Benjy Owen along with grandson Jeffrey toured the deep South this past December, uncovering their Jewish Sephardic roots along the way. Part three of a five… Continue reading
Three Generations Uncover their Jewish Roots. Part 2: Savannah
Ruben Owen dreamed of returning to his childhood home of Columbus, Georgia. A descendent of Sephardic immigrants from the Greek Island of Rhodes, Ruben wanted to combine his homecoming with a tour of the Sephardic South.… Continue reading
Guest post: A plea for unity in the Seattle Jewish community
Why, when I look at the list of sponsors of Seattle’s rally for Israel, are there five Orthodox synagogues, five Orthodox schools and student groups, StandWithUs and Hadassah, but no one else? We all… Continue reading
Prayer Vigil in Seattle for Abducted Teens
The horrific kidnapping of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrach has ripped a psychic hole in the fabric of the communal Jewish soul. Parents are hugging their children a little tighter and… Continue reading
We were Palestinians once… and young
JEWISH TRANSCRIPT ARCHIVE REVEALS A TIME WHEN PALESTINIAN MEANT JEWISH Seattle’s JTNews, formerly known as the Jewish Transcript has begun digitizing the newspaper’s archives, making the historic folios available to the public online. Currently… Continue reading
Kerry; Palestinian Capital in Jerusalem and a Mike Report Meme
In the New York Times today Thomas Friedman reported that US Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing for a plan that will wrench portions of Jerusalem from Israel and place the heart of the Jewish capital… Continue reading
Palestinian-Jewish Encounters of the Rigged Kind
Jewish-Palestinian dialogue organizations offer feel good encounters that do not serve the cause of peace. On 2 August 1990 Iraq launched a full scale invasion of Kuwait. Conservative estimates place the number of… Continue reading
Sharing both sides is our Cartoon of the Day
The JTNews recently reported on an event sponsored by Parents Circle, an organization offensive to many terror victim families for politicizing their grief and placing the blame for the conflict squarely on Israel.… Continue reading
The Pew Study and a brand new cartoon
The American Jewish community (or what’s left of it) is abuzz over the recent pew study results. You can review the poll here, but the bottom line is that with the exception of… Continue reading
Seattle professor Nada Elia hates on Israel (USA as well)
Updated 08/27/2013: Nada Elia holds a professorship at Seattle’s Antioch University or as she refers to it on her Facebook page “Whitey U” where she describes her duties as “working for the man”. The racist histrionics… Continue reading
JTNews is our cartoon of the day
Page three of the August 16 edition of Washington state’ only Jewish newspaper, the JTNews featured a letter from Linda Frank, a woman who publicly claims Israel uses snipers to kill children. The… Continue reading
Cartoon of the day
The Times of Israel and other news outlets are reporting that in addition to conservative non profit organizations, the IRS has also been targeting pro-Israel Jewish groups for special attention. Which is the… Continue reading
