Category: Local News

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent As mayor of the Gush Etzion region of Israel, Shaul Goldstein is not only a leader, he’s also a busines

By Rita Weinstein, JTNews Correspondent On November 20, Muslims across the world ended Ramadan, their 29-day fast of observance. At the University

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent When Barry Sohn took the reins at the Stroum Jewish Community Center half a year ago, his task was similar

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Seattle Hebrew Academy has just gotten a much-needed boost in its quest to raise funds to rebuild its home. The C

By Robert Shay, Special to JTNews This month, I am pleased to announce to the community that I have decided to expand the selection of media our co

By Davida Navarre (and daughter Ruth), Special to JTNews Twentieth-century history is rife with examples of inhumanity. The Holocaust stands as one

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent You should be able to find these discs with the information given, but if you’re frustrated in a se

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews David and Debbie Grashin are trying to get back to normal after the passing of their son Ari. Grashin, who had be

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Not long ago, a positive HIV test meant an imminent death sentence. That is no longer the case. Today, inste

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent From Shakespeare’s Shylock to Arthur Miller’s Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman, the stereotype

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Temple Beth Am’s Rabbi Jonathan Singer still seems a bit shy about the award he and his wife, Rabbi

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews Over the past 50 years, thousands in Seattle’s young adult Jewish community have walked through the door

By Carol Oseran Starin, Special to JTNews Morah Dorothy reaches into the large paper bag and out comes “Ari,” a beautiful lion puppet that seems to

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Those attending KlezFest on Nov. 10 at Temple Beth Am in Seattle can expect a lively mix of Jewish music thi

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent When Mercer Island artist Madelaine Georgette paints these days, she focuses on what she calls ubuntu — com

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Excitement about the impending collaboration with Microsoft Corporation highlighted the American Technion Soc

By Hally Jackson, JTNews Correspondent

By Hally Jackson, JTNews Correspondent Karen Gamoran, Herzl-Ner Tamid and Temple De Hirsch member, blushes when her peers call her a philanthropist

By Rabbi Michael A. Latz, other I grew up in Minnesota. Shabbat dinners at my grandparents’ home in St. Paul frame my childhood memories of l