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Neal Schindler

A native of Detroit, Neal Schindler has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 2002. He has held staff positions at Seattle Weekly and The Seattle Times and was a freelance writer for Jew-ish.com from 2007 to 2011. Schindler was raised in a Reconstructionist Jewish congregation and is now a member of Spokane's Reform congregation, Emanu-El. He is the director of Spokane Area Jewish Family Services. His interests include movies, Scrabble, and indie rock. He lives with his wife, son, and two cats in West Central Spokane.

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The devastating prophecies of “Black Mirror”

The unsettling British TV show “Black Mirror” — whose arch dystopias can make your soul crawl under the bed and go fetal, while your mind races with questions and ideas — gets more creepily prescient as the years go by.

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Ask A Jew: Are the Jewish people of today the true Jews from Israel?

“The Genome-wide Structure of the Jewish People,” a 2010 article from the journal Nature, suggests that Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews have a shared Middle Eastern ancestry

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Ask a Jew: Do you think ritual circumcision should be practiced today?

Neal Schindler says, "I would never make a blanket statement about what Jews should or should not do in relation to brit milah."

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Ask a Jew: Is the term “Jewess” ever appropriate?

Without doing any research, I knew “Jewess” is outdated at best and offensive at worst, though I wasn’t sure precisely why.

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A FāVS exclusive: early draft of President Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement

In a tremendous coup -- no pun intended -- SpokaneFāVS has acquired an early draft of the statement issued by the Trump administration to mark the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The finished product, though considerably more polished than this draft version, still failed to mention the Jewish people as the primary target of the Nazis’ genocidal efforts.

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From the Eastern Wash. Legislative Conference: Understanding Poverty

I mentioned at the conference that a common stereotype about Jews is that we’re all wealthy to some degree; the complementary myth, of course, is that there are no poor Jews.

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What’s worth fighting for in turbulent times

The Trump administration announced its directive on refugees and immigrants on Friday, Jan. 27, which was International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Exploring the Intersection of Ethics and Community Service

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Letting go of ‘I’ to find true fulfillment in the New Year

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