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By Deborah Seldner, other She’s already made her mark on the nation’s Jewish environmental landscape, but after a week kayaking in Ala

By , Special to JTNews From Arab-Jewish relations to rabbis who surf, medieval history to Yentl’s revenge, the Talmud to God-optional Judais

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews During the past two legislative sessions, financial pressures caused by statewide ballot initiatives,

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews In the past 10 years, the greater Seattle Jewish community has grown by 27 percent — twice as fast as

By , Special to JTNews Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood, invites the community to join

By , Special to JTNews Jewish Family Service offers a wide variety of culturally sensitive workshops and groups designed to strengthen individuals

By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center (JCC) holds its 44th Annual Meeting at 7 p.m. on Oct. 18 at the Mercer Island Facility (

By , Special to JTNews Fifteen kindergarten students at Seattle Hebrew Academy wanted to help those who had been injured by the terrorists in New

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent On the evening of that bleak Tuesday, Sept. 11, nearly 150 Jews gathered at a local synagogue to hear Jerusa

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent At the American Jewish Committee annual meeting on the evening of Sept. 10, the AJC’s expert on anti-S

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews What is the message for the Jewish community after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11? Reuven Kimelman,

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Adam Benjamin Feinstein is one lucky boy. In Jewish tradition, the number 18 is an auspicious number

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The members of Tacoma’s Temple Beth El yet again chose worship over worry by concentrating on Yom Ki

By , Special to JTNews Seventeen Seattle-area athletes competed admirably, socialized heartily, swam in the ocean safely and represented the Pacif

By Joanna Kadish, other Elie Seidel, a stocky woman in her late 30s with a face that looks like it belongs on a teenager, lifted up her shirt to d

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent About 150 volunteers met in the auditorium of the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island on Sept.

By , Special to JTNews Congregation Beth Shalom, a Conservative synagogue in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood, invites the public to its comm

By , Special to JTNews Seattle community and congregational groups are responding to the current crisis in Israel through an Israel Advocacy Conso

By , Special to JTNews The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle announced Wednesday night, Sept. 12, that they solidarity rally scheduled for Sund

By Ken Schlegel, Special to JTNews Sunday, Sept. 9, marked the end of one era and the beginning of another for Temple De Hirsch Sinai. Early on tha