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We reported Monday that on an Alaska Airlines flight Sunday to Los Angeles from Mexico, crew members issued a security alert after three Mexican Orthodox Jews began praying with tefillin. Alaska Airlines has apologized for the incident and has asked the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle to help the airline "incorporate awareness training of Orthodox […]

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Today in “Ask Amy,” a 7th grade girl wonders how to deal with her best school buddy, a Native American boy who always teases her about being Jewish. For example, today we were goofing around, and a friend of his said, “What’s going on?” and he said, “She was being Jewish.” This really hurt my […]

Most people think that Theodor Herzl’s book The Jewish State (1896) was the first major book about Zionism. However, twenty years earlier, the novel Daniel Deronda appeared, featuring a protagonist rediscovering his lost Jewish heritage and a character named Mordecai with a dream to rally the Jewish people to return to Palestine. Perhaps most remarkably, the novel sprung from […]

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