Category: Local News

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Twelve years ago, Jodilyn Owen was invited by her sister-in-law to her nephew’s birth as a "ps

By Tori Gottlieb, JTNews Correspondent Devorah Kornfeld moved to Seattle in 1974 and almost immediately became involved with Menachem Mendel Seattl

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Torah Day School, the Orthodox pre-K—8th grade Jewish day school in Seattle’s South End, will

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist With its double-overtime, lasting two months beyond its normal conclusion, our state’s recent extended leg

By , JTNews Correspondent State Representative Marcie Maxwell (D-41st) has resigned from her position to join Governor Jay Inslee’s Legislati

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Steve Kasner is banking on his 20 years of community service, including his role as the current chair of the

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent No Israeli businesses or researchers were represented at the 2013 Life Science Innovation Northwest biotech a

By Compiled by Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews The first place art contest winner in the 9th-12th grade category is Alexander King, an 11th grader a

By Tori Gottlieb, Special to JTNews Founded in 1984 by Leslie and Abigail Wexner, the Wexner Foundation has become one of the premier organizations

By Melissa Rivkin, Special to JTNews Today I said farewell to Alex, our latest foreign student who is returning to Latvia and then on to Hungary wh

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews In its brief existence, Israel has made enormous strides. But the popular impression that the state

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Likening the final 2013-2015 state budget deal to a tied score baseball game in the bottom of the ninth innin

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center’s Mercer Island site looks the same until you make your way toward the

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Come next week, when Keith Dvorchik spends his first days in his office at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seat

By Gwen Davis , JTNews Correspondent Rabbi Mordechai Farkash of the Eastside Torah Center is thinking about the full synagogue experience. "When pe

By Charlene Kahn, JTNews Correspondent In a move that continues to cement the historic relationship between Spain and the Iberian Jews, a member of

By Gwen Davis, JTNews Correspondent Yom huledet sameach! Congregation Kol HaNeshamah in West Seattle celebrates its 10th anniversary on June 21. Fo

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews What is the role of the American Orthodox rabbi today? It’s a question with more than one answ