Category: Local News

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Not all heroes are exciting. Not everyone can be a firefighter rushing into a collapsing tower. For some,

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent As the baby-boom generation has aged, we’ve discovered death whether by facing up to our own mortal

By , Special to JTNews Following the departure of executive director Gary Pollock this month, the Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattl

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews More than two years after leaving her job as the Jewish Federation’s first professional lobbyist

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews After Sept. 11, we all searched for concrete ways to help people in New York and Washington heal. Whil

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews King County Executive Ron Sims’ November memo reminding his workforce to remember religious dive

By , Special to JTNews Jewish Day School defeats Seattle Hebrew Academy in boys’ basketball The Jewish Day School narrowly defeated the Sea

By Amirav Davy, Special to JTNews For decades Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath Synagogue members Gustav and Ruth Samter have hosted students at their

By , Special to JTNews Entrepreneur and philanthropist Alex Shulman, who bought and sold many businesses during his career, has died at age 89.

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Less than a year after opening, The Summit at First Hill, the first independent and assisted living complex

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews JCC President Paul Etsekson says he has been amazed at the community response to a series of financial

By , Special to JTNews Jewish Family Service will once again conduct its popular Hanukkah Tzedakah drive. Through the generosity of the community,

By , Special to JTNews Like many others in the greater Seattle area, Yechezkel Rapoport and his wife Ora make their living as computer professiona

By Josefin Kanin, Special to JTNews In 1999, the JCC Association began an ambitious project to establish Young Judaea groups as endorsed programs

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent About 60 students gave the enthusiastic Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin of Chabad-Lubavitch their full attention a

By Sarah Shay, Special to JTNews All men have hobbies. Some fish, some garden, some collect antiques. My father, Robert Shay, runs the largest Jew

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Congregation Kol Shalom, a growing Reform congregation on Bainbridge Island, has welcomed a new, part-time r

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “In light of recent national events and as the youngest Holocaust survivors generation approaches, th

By , Special to JTNews Nearly 350 people gave back-to-back standing ovations at a American Jewish Committee salute to John Rindlaub, president of

By , Special to JTNews After serving seven years as executive director of the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, David Grashin will be leav