Category: Local News

By Charlene Kahn, JTNews Correspondent Thinking about the Holocaust often comes from a Central and Eastern European focus, with recognition of the

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews For the first time in almost three decades, Jewish Family Service of Greater Seattle is set to bring on a new lea

By , JTNews Correspondent Joel Magalnick, who has been editor of JTNews since 2003, was named publisher this week by the JTNews board. He served as

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Grab a Frisbee and a few friends and you’ve got yourself a game of Ultimate. But get serious about it, and

By Ron Kampeas, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA)—He had them until abortion. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) was addressing the Reform

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Erica Nash got her finish line after all. When the Nash family arrived at their Bellevue home just after midnigh

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent Enrollment in greater Seattle area Jewish day schools has been something of a roller coaster over the last d

By Gwen Davis , JTNews Correspondent In early spring, the AP physics class at the Northwest Yeshiva High School was one of only 100 teams around th

By Edmon J. Rodman , JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Sit back by the bonfire and pop open a brewski, it’s Lag b’Omer. Since

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Editor’s Note: This is part two in a series about the turnover in the Seattle Jewish community’s lead

By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent In 2000, a Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle demographic study showed Seattle’s northeast quadrant

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent As a college English major, I learned the prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s 14th-century

By Charlene Kahn , JTNews Correspondent During the first weekend in April, guests from California to Connecticut converged on Seattle in honor of R

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about the large turnover in leadership within metrop

By Charlene Kahn, JTNews Correspondent The front page headline in the March 27 issue of Salom Gazetesi, the weekly newspaper of the Istanbul Jewish

By Gwen Davis , JTNews Correspondent When some discover their life goals cannot be achieved, they shrug their shoulders and move on. Others, howeve

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Daniel Offer remembers the day in December 1947 when he and his schoolmates were excused from class

By Charlene Kahn, JTNews Correspondent A rabbi who served as plaintiff in a precedent-setting case for religious freedom in Israel visited the Seat