Category: Local News

By , Special to JTNews Seattle activist Mark Schuster was recently appointed to the national board of directors for Mazon, a national nonprofit or

By , Special to JTNews Bonnie Lipton, national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, and Dr. Shmuel Penchas, f

By , Special to JTNews The Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder recently named Shae Morry, M.S., as associate principal. Morry has an extensive backgrou

By , Special to JTNews A new Jewish youth club in West Seattle will meet on Wednesday afternoons between 3:45-5:30 p.m. from Oct. 9, 2002, to June

By , Special to JTNews The Washington State Jewish Historical Society (WSJHS) invites the public to join in honoring Meta Buttnick, founder of the

By , Special to JTNews Dr. David Tapper, surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, and professor and vice-chairma

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Despite Washington state’s 5 percent cut to the Caroline Kline Galland Home’s budget, the Jewish

By , Special to JTNews As Camp Solomon Schechter enters its 48th year of Jewish camping in the Northwest, a plan has been approved to dramatically

By , Special to JTNews In a show of solidarity with the California Department of Insurance, the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner ha

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent What brings a prayer up off the printed page and into the heart? The voice of an inspired singer. “

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent A local artist of Israeli origin is currently presenting a small but vibrant show on the effects o

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Herod the Great, who ruled as King of Judea beginning about a century after Judah the Maccabee made his t

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent “There’s a double-ness in what you hear people say about Jews and what you see written about J

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The wandering school has settled down again. The Seattle Jewish Community School, which has occupied f

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent “This is a new passage, perhaps a turning point,” said Eran Lerman, the new director of the Am

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The Legislature won’t be pulling any financial miracles out of a hat this year, according to Jew

By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle is the winner of a 2002 communications award for “maintaining s

By , Special to JTNews Eight students from Garfield High School are currently participating in “Project: Gambia,” a collaboration of R

By , Special to JTNews The theme for this year’s Pacific Northwest Mini-CAJE on Feb. 17 and 18, is “The Jewish Bookshelf” reflec

By , Special to JTNews It is estimated that 10 to 20 percent of the Seattle area Jewish population lives in poverty. Between Purim and Passover th