Category: M.O.T.: Member of the Tribe

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist You might say Janet Varon has stayed the course as she navigated her career. The founder and director of NoHLA,

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist 1 As you read this, Ariel Vardy is on his way to a seriously big adventure. The recent Skyline High School gra

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Earlier this year, Kurtis Carsch, 18, became a finalist in the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS), which s

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist "I enjoy connecting people to one another," says Lynn Chapman, explaining one reason she became a local coord

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist After 26 years in Seattle, Leslie Fried has moved to Anchorage to be curator of the Alaska Jewish Museum. Fo

By , If you didn't know it already, the crossword puzzle that appears in this newspaper also appears in life size on the wall at Capitol Hill's Elt

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist She was born and raised on the wet side, but Seattle native Josey Fast is now enjoying life on the dry side of

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Brett Alkan found a kidney donor through Facebook and it appears he is on the, ahem, cutting edge of a trend (s

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist When I asked Hilary Stern how she was inspired to work for Casa Latina, the immigrant aid organization, she off

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist This past August found Henry Butler turning 90, and this past Purim found him pouring shots of schnapps, whisk

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I easily spotted Carolyn Bernhard's mass of gray curls on the TV monitor at my gym early last month. She and ot

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Recently named one of New York University's 15 most influential students, Chelsea Garbell was nominated primari

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I arrived at Seattle's Frye Art Museum to interview Frieda Sondland, finding her in the lobby getting the rock-

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Nineteenth and 20th-century Yiddish and Russian literature and drama is her field, but UW Professor Barbara Hen

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Jamie Peha gets to do what she loves best — work with food and wine. Jamie started Peha Promotions, her food a

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Even though her performance career in ballet didn't last very long, Marjorie Thompson still feels the influenc

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist It's always great when families get along, and more so when blended families do. Stepbrothers Raphi Schuster a

By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Kenny and Marleen Alhadeff are always happy to be honored, as they were Nov. 18, receiving the Outstanding Fam

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Columbus, Ohio native Brenda Luper ("go Buckeyes!") was a relatively new arrival in the Seattle area in 2007 w

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist About two months ago my family and I visited Whitman College in Walla Walla. We arrived Friday afternoon and he