The ''JTNews'' (formerly ''The Jewish Transcript'') was a

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that served the

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. The biweekly paper, published in

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, was owned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and had a readership of 16,000. Founded by Herman Horowitz, it was first published on March 6, 1924, as the ''Jewish Transcript of the

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''. The paper ceased publication in February 2015. It was replaced by ''Jewish in Seattle'', which first published in August 2015.

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