Category: Local News

By , Special to JTNews Fielding a new interscholastic sports team at any school usually means starting out with a loser. But that’s not how

By , Special to JTNews Dina Elikan, MSW/ACSW, the new director of Senior Services at Jewish Family Service, says her 97-year-old grandmother, who

By Annette Peizer, Special to JTNews What parents don’t want their child to be the one teachers all find a delight to have in their classes,

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent A documentary illustrating the painstaking renovation of an historic synagogue in Eastern Europe a

By Joanna Kadish, other The autumn wind blows circles around the stalwart evergreens and thin birches bordering Interlaken Boulevard on Capitol Hi

By Josefin Kanin, Special to JTNews Volunteer leadership of the Stroum Jewish Community Center bid farewell to the leaders of the center staff at

By Bruce Clement, Special to JTNews Nearly 40 past leaders of Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation will be on hand for a gala dinner Nov. 11 to help

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews About 325 people could have saved a lot of money and not missed a Mariners playoff game if they had ch

By , Special to JTNews “Voices of Reason,” a concert of Christian, Jewish and Islamic music based on the three religions’ common

By , Special to JTNews Seattle Chapter Hadassah kicked off a celebration of Hadassah’s 90th anniversary on Sept. 13, at the Stroum Jewish Co

By , Special to JTNews Parents with children in the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s (JCC) preschool program breathed a sigh of satisfaction

By , Special to JTNews Gloria Berner, an incoming freshman at the University of Washington, is commuting to school and wondered if she would miss

By , Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva High School kicked off its participation in the Milken Family Foundation Festival for Youth with a multig

By Gerda Lawrence, Special to JTNews Jewish seniors who live on Seattle’s north end have literally stepped outside of the box to solve the p

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Those who knew him 10 years ago, may not recognize the once quiet and introverted Jon Sternoff today. Ste

By Eileen Mintz, Special to JTNews Two local families and a local chef gave Jewish cooking maven Joan Nathan a taste of eating Jewish in Seattle a

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Although the series of Music of Remembrance concerts are presented as a tribute to those who died and

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Correspondent There must be something more, he thought to himself. Something more than this same old routine of ge

By Holly M. Redell, Special to JTNews When organizers were planning the visit to Seattle of Israeli social workers last month, they had no idea ho

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Although four adults have been questioned in connection with last summer’s vandalism on Bainbridge I