Category: Local News

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews When Rabbis Beth and Jonathan Singer announced they would be leaving their positions as co-senior rabbis of Temp

By Dikla Tuchman, JTNews Correspondent U.S. Senator Patty Murray visited Jewish Family Service Wednesday to tour its Polack Food Bank and speak wit

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Although Yossi Klein Halevi will no doubt discuss his new nonfiction book, "Like Dreamers: The Story of the I

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Don't call it a cure, but children and adults with Type 1 diabetes may soon get a peaceful night's sleep and

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Do you speak Jewish? It sounds like a funny question. How does one speak a religion, a culture, a

By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent "Losing a child is unlike no other pain I can describe," according to Robi Damelin. More difficult still,

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews From where Bret Stephens sits, the Middle East can be all-consuming. "Being as intellectually obsessed as I am

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews On a cool evening in early October, approximately 60 women gathered in the contemporary Winston Wac

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When it comes to Jewish education, teens in search of something more than the typical classroom learning experien

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent It’s hard to imagine any organization having 64 locations inside of Israel, but with its newest office

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Think about the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle’s new rabbinical advisory council as a kind o

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Marcie Natan is Hadassah’s 25th national president, and the first one to visit the Northwest.

By Tori Gottlieb , JTNews Correspondent Erica Nash knows firsthand about the importance of community support. Nash, who suffers from cerebral palsy

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews On a recent Saturday evening, with the late summer sun setting behind them, about 50 adults and chil

By Catherine Carmel , Special to JTNews "For 32 years, my job has been to be a soldier. Now my job is to get up every morning and put one foot in f