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By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews It is with great sadness and some anger that Dr. Shmuel Penchas talks about the new specialty at Hadass

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Rabbi Elon Sunshine is a little too happy. He is the father of two sweet little girls, with a third c

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Remember the gym teacher who talked you into jumping off the high dive even though you were afraid? He

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent No one can really say for sure whether or not being a Jewish mother is any different than being any other 

By Eric Schinfeld, other

By Eric Schinfeld, other The Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation of the Greater Seattle is looking forward to a pretty standard year fo

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent One of the things he finds most surprising about the changing situation in the Middle East conflict, said

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Even at the age of two, it was evident that Ari Grashin was a sports enthusiast. He would grab the TV remote

By Hally Jackson, Special to JTNews After two decades as executive director at the JCC, Gary Pollock is pitching for a new team, The Moyer Foundati

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews From Temple B’nai Torah’s beginnings in 1968, conducting services with a small Torah rescued from

By Iantha Sidell and Neil Ross, Special to JTNews

By Iantha Sidell and Neil Ross, Special to JTNews Showing solidarity with the people of Israel during a critical time, we joined more than 100 lay

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Jewish camping in North America. The Foundation for Jewish C

By Joshua Rosenstein, JTNews Correspondent When recent Jewish Day School grad Joshua Niehaus left Seattle for a year in Israel on Hadassah’s

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Dr. Bob Fineman has been to Israel six times. In 1999, he slept in a military barracks and cleaned army ve

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews When Jay Rosenbaum’s dad made a mid-life change from the world of advertising to become a rabbi,

By Joshua Rosenstein, other Twelve and a half years after Tikvah House opened, the Seattle Association for the Jewish Disabled (SAJD) will be closi

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent For Jewish playwright Sharyn Shipley, this year’s Mae West Fest is an opportunity to produce the premi