Category: Local News

By Ruti Cohenca, Special to JTNews As part of the celebration of Purim, Jews in Persia sent gifts of food to their friends — shalach manot. We have

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews In honor of the 90th birthday of The Jewish Transcript/JTNews, we will be hosting a number of initiatives over t

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Tradition will always reign at Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation in Seattle. Its new rabbi, English-born Ben

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews It took six months, $5 million, and a lot of work both in fundraising and construction to reach the moment on Feb

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews The Feb. 7 announcement by Spanish minister of justice Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon of the introduction of

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Two things in life are unavoidable: Death and taxes. And no one wants to talk about either of them.

By Hillel Kuttler , Special to JTNews East Rutherford, N.J. — When Rachel Horvitz took her seat high in the corner of the end zone for Super Bowl X

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Activists from both sides of the issue created a line that stretched around the legislative building on Jan. 28 a

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent Whether they're roasted, honey-covered, chocolate-dipped, spicy, salted, or just raw and out of the shell, p

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews This is a year of milestone birthdays: The University of Washington's Stroum Center for Jewish Stud

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Rather than have us write about them, we thought we'd let our readers tell their stories: | Local educator Beth H

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews When you hear the word "Sephardic," what comes to mind? Bourekas? A distant Mediterranean land? Sw

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent It might sound like one of those familiar jokes — a rabbi, a priest and an imam meet in heaven or are in a si

By Dikla Tuchman, JTNews Correspondent On Sun., Jan. 12, the Eastside Torah Center said goodbye to its small, too-crowded space on 156th Ave. NE in