Category: Local News

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Maria Erlitz can sum up her retirement from the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle in two words: "It’

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews On Sunday, June 16, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation witnessed history when Rabbi Jay Rosen

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Around Passover time, Galit Ezekiel is busy. Very busy. "I strive to meet every single person who comes to the l

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent It is somewhat of a triumph that the American Jewish Press Association is having its 2013 annual conference

By Makena Owens, Special to JTNews What do you get when you combine a Wal-Mart lunchbox, a radar reflector, a parachute, and a giant, six-foot ball

By Hillel Kuttler , Special to JTNews Leila Gray Shapiro entered the world last October 23. Because the Sacramento Kings’ NBA season was then

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Two years ago, Chabad of the Central Cascades in Issaquah opened a preschool. Four children enrolle

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent At a community briefing at Seattle’s Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Rep. Adam Smith (D-9th District) used a l

By Arthur Wolak, Special to JTNews VANCOUVER — A grand ceremony to dedicate British Columbia’s first synagogue will be reenacted on June 2, e

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Antioch University, a one-building institution in downtown Seattle serving 900 students, has been ho

By , JTNews Correspondent By finishing at 14-1, the Seattle Hebrew Academy’s girls’ basketball team had its best season in its history.

By Russell Lidman, Special to JTNews Let’s take a look back at a headline in The Olympian, dated April 1938: "Jewish folk in church ceremony.

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews When Urmi Basu was 9 years old and growing up in the genteel suburbs of Kolkata (Calcutta), India, s

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Rabbis Beth and Jonathan Singer know they’re taking a risk. When the co-senior rabbis of Temple Beth Am pa