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

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist All Bar and Bat Mitzvah kids are special, but Andrew and Esther Schorr of Mercer Island can be allowed a little

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Bellevue residents Nathan Hemphill and Jonathan Newman, both age 16, put together a team this year to compete i

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The 11 Washington State youth who participated in Nesiya's six-week summer program in Israel are busy finishing

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Rabbi Harry Zeitlin is one of those multi-faceted, multi-talented people — photographer, musician, composer, pl

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Matt Lemchen, BBYO program director for the Evergreen region of Washington, Oregon and Northwest Canada, was re

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I've wanted to interview Seattle Times food writer Nancy Leson for a long time, so I was very excited when we f

By Diana Brement, Tahoma National Cemetery's chief bugler, Bernie Moskowitz. (Courtesy Bernie Moskowitz) It wasn't too hard to track down Bernie M

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A guilty secret: I'm hooked on "Hoarders," the new hit TV show on A&E. So it was great to find out it was conc

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Al Ziontz photo by Marianne McCoy "People urged me to write the book — specifically my wife," says Bellevu

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist With H1N1 so much in the news these days, I wanted to talk to someone on the front lines of fighting this new v

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Don Shifrin, M.D. was a tad nonchalant when I spoke to him about winning the American Academy of Pediatrics Hol

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A UW graduate is rubbing shoulders and leashes with some of Hollywood's most popular stars and their pets. Jaco

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Seven Washington residents are among hundreds of volunteers nationwide nominated for the first United Jewish Co

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Ilana Long is a funny person; and if you saw her perform stand-up comedy in the days before she had kids, you k

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Sculptor and glass artist Gabriel Bass, a Mercer Island native now living in Jerusalem, recently completed and

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Harry Rutstein's book, The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World, recently w