Category: Local News

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color” (working title), a new four-part ser

By Karen Treiger, Special to JTNews As we wound our way up through the mountains in the desert landscape, we could almost imagine that we were asce

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Pound for pound, Jeremy Benezra may be the strongest teenager in Washington State. The graduating senior f

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When Eastsiders Cooksie and Lionel Kramer arrived from South Africa nine years ago, they discovered a shorta

By Joshua Rosenstein, other Simone Edwards, a 6’4"center for the Seattle Storm WNBA team does not look like your average Israeli. When she sp

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent It’s 6 o’clock in the morning and Peter Alexander is more cheerful than anyone has a right to

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Leaders from Jewish organizations and interfaith groups who spoke at Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s recent co

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The reminiscences were sometimes tearful, often humorous and always heartfelt as members of Temple Beth Hat

By , Special to JTNews The Seattle Hebrew Academy announces the (re)opening of its Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) at its north Capitol Hi

By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle was recently awarded a 2002 Communications Award for “maintaini

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Families happen in all sorts of ways. People marry and have babies as they always have; “blended fa

By Max Huer, other NEW YORK, June 5 (JTA) — As Robin Wehl listens to an Austrian radio station streamed over the Internet, she understands bits an

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews It took the wisdom of King Solomon — and more than 50 hours of meetings — for two Jewish Federation co

By , Special to JTNews Over 770 children will be joining the Camp Solomon Schechter family for its 48th summer, having doubled in size over the pa

By Allison Covey, Special to JTNews After only four short days of being in the state of Israel — a land of war and religion, ancient culture and m

By Stephen Adler, Special to JTNews Would you knowingly deal with a company that owes you or your parents money? Would you knowingly deal with a c

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews When the Sisterhood of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue decided to beautify the walls of the social hall,

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Manli Ho, daughter of Holocaust rescuer Dr. Feng Shan Ho, addressed an audience of some 60 appreciative li