Category: Local News

By , Special to JTNews The Northwest Jewish Environmental Project (NWJEP) commemorated Earth Day by implementing environmental education and aware

By , Special to JTNews Tickets for the 63rd annual Seattle—King County First Citizen Awards banquet are now available. Seattle native Herbert (

By Lorraine Sidell, JTNews Correspondent Undaunted by rain and blustery winds, an estimated 800—900 people crowded into The Summit at First Hill on

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Seattle Symphony opened the doors of its music discovery center, Soundbridge, on April 17 to “inspire

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Among the sea of statistics and personal stories, the message at a recent conference in Seattle on interfait

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Administrators at the Kline Galland Home can stop holding their breath and get ready for a sigh of rel

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Celebrated Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, in Seattle to speak at Hadassah’s Gala for Giving

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent If Earl Starr had been just a little bit better at baseball, he might have made his appearance at Safeco

By , Special to JTNews Temple Beth Am, a Reform congregation in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood, is bringing Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Floyd Cochran used to thrive on hate. “As a child at the age of 8,” he said in a recent teleph

By Abby Brown, Special to JTNews Following the sale of their fraternity house, the alumni of the former Sigma Alpha Mu at the University of Washin

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Beginning with the first large waves of immigration from Eastern Europe in the late 19th century, the Jew

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Community members joined together a number of times this past week to remember the Holocaust. Government

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Although prayer is meant to calm the spirit and unite people, it has caused divisiveness and contention betw

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced at a press conference April 17 that his office

By Janis Siegel, Special to JTNews The newest addition to the rabbinical community of the Northwest will be a spiritual leader who used to be a la

By , Special to JTNews This past January, a group of Kline Galland residents began a journey to revive their Jewish spirit by learning to read Heb

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The sixth Music of Remembrance concert, on April 23 at Benaroya Hall, will use movement and dance to h

By , Special to JTNews Join ex-camper alumni and friends of Camp Solomon Schechter, May 18—20, for a Shabbat weekend. See the updates and changes

By , Special to JTNews Seattle Chapter Hadassah presents Dr. Deborah Lipstadt as the keynote speaker at its May 3 Gala for Giving honoring Lucy Pr