Category: Local News

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews "No one conceived of the notion there would ever be vibrant Jewish life in the Soviet Union," said

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews You haven’t truly heard The Four Questions until you hear them recited in multiple languages. Most of us a

By Gigi Yellen-Cohn, JTNews Correspondent He was a force to be reckoned with, this large-voiced man, the composer Bonia Shur. When Shur died last

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Have you heard this one? An American Jewish woman travels to the Himalayas in search of a famous gu

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews When he was growing up, Hen Mazzig’s mother would often tell him she hoped she wouldn’t have to send

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent We are "citizens of the globe and cosmopolitans," said Michael Rosenthal, professor and philosophy departme

By Tim Klass , JTNews Correspondent A plan to collect tolls on the Interstate 90 floating bridge is raising a double whammy of concern and uncertai

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews For those of you who still think kosher wine means kosher-aisle, bottom-shelf Kedem Concord Cream R

By Mathias Cohanim , Special to JTNews For the past two years, Northwest Yeshiva High School’s Green Team has run three shoe drives to donate

By , JTNews Correspondent At the international convention for the BBYO youth group last month, several members from the Evergreen Region brought ho

By David J. Litvak , Special to JTNews Despite the incessant rain, Portland, the City of Roses, is one of America’s most charming cities. The

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews It’s hard to believe that Madeleine Albright, who fled Prague with her parents in 1939 and los

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent Israeli professor and counter-terrorism expert Dr. Jonathan Fine used his meeting at a Seattle home this mon

By Tim Klass, JTNews Correspondent For Shalom Simchon, Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, trade missions involve more than drumming up