Category: Local News

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Margaret Hollinger’s disintegrating photo album contains black paper pages with fading black-a

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Leo Hymas was 18 years old when he and three other American soldiers, members of General Patton̵

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Ken Weinberg, longtime CEO of Jewish Family Service of Greater Seattle, announced on June 20 that he would reti

By Herb Levine, other On Sunday, June 10, Rabbi Zalman Heber greeted some 400 guests to celebrate the opening of the new Chabad Jewish Center — the

By , JTNews Correspondent On June 10, the Jewish youth philanthropy group J.Team announced the recipients of this year’s philanthropic funds.

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews The hardest thing Michael Oren has ever done occurred while he was an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces seven

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent As tensions remain high over the progress of Iran’s nuclear program, an Iranian civil-military relatio

By Charlene Kahn, JTNews Correspondent Teachers, heads of school, rabbinic and lay leaders from the region’s Jewish educational and religious

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Life is bittersweet for kosher consumers in Seattle. On May 9, the kosher certification agency OK an

By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent Why wouldn’t a Jewish cross-country bike ride launch from Seattle? The region ranks number two among

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent In his new book, "Israel and the Bomb," writer, historian, and one of the world’s foremost voices on

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Jack Benaroya was a first-generation American. Having felt that this country had given so much to him, he wanted

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Some call it drive-by Judaism, when parents drop their kids at a synagogue for Hebrew school, take off to sho