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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Honoring Tom O’Keefe, founder of Seattle-based Tully’s Coffee, with its 2002 Torch of Liberty Aw

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As the once vibrant economy in Argentina collapses, members of Washington’s Jewish community are expl

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Approximately 1,500 people gathered in downtown Seattle last week for the community Israel rally with

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews For 30 minutes on Tuesday, April 30, a large cross-section of the greater Seattle Jewish community — f

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Pledges to the 2002 Jewish Federation Community Campaign totaled a little over $10 million, fund-raisi

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Memories, anecdotes and oral histories of lifetimes lived by Jewish seniors in Seattle and the greater Puget

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent You are cordially invited to a wedding at The Evergreen State College in Olympia…. What’s mo

By Lauren Segal, Special to JTNews The Seattle Chapter of Hadassah will honor life member and long-time philanthropist Althea Stroum at the Gala f

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent On March 12, about 360 students, teachers and facilitators attended the Reducing Adolescent Prejudice (RAP

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent With so many glowing memories of Julie Mirel singing from the bimah, Tacoma’s Temple Beth El is prep

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Anyone entering Kane Hall to hear Dr. William Quandt’s lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at

By Sharon Altaras, Special to JTNews “It’s a source of extreme frustration to me that we tend to learn from murders,” Daniel Pip

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent While the grown-ups in our community scramble to support Israel with rallies, solidarity missions, lette

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent For the third time in a month, the Jewish community will gather en masse next week for a rally in support o

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews There will be three new faces in community leadership this summer, when the new director of the Stroum

By , Special to JTNews Scheduled for April 12-14 at Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, the 12th Annual Jewish Single Parent Family Retreat promise

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By , Special to JTNews The video, “The Sephardim and the Pike Place Market” is a visual and oral record of Sephardic vendors who have

By , Special to JTNews Professor Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, will deliver the three