By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Local civil, human and religious rights groups clashed with the city of Bellevue over its decision to allow

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Dr. Feng Shan Ho, Chinese consul general in Vienna on the eve of the Second World War, is credited with pr

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent OLYMPIA — Anti-Defamation League—inspired bills targeting hate groups and others that commit violent civil

By , Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva High School’s Annual Dinner will take place Feb. 17 at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel in Seattle.

By , Special to JTNews For the past 13 years, the Seattle Jewish Coalition for the Homeless has been holding a winter toy and book drive. Although

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent For the past 10 years, the Seattle Kollel, or universal community, has been offering Jewish learning for eve

By Amy Shafron, Special to JTNews The JDS Annual Dinner and Auction on Sunday, March 10, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel will pay tribute to the mem

By , Special to JTNews B’nai B’rith International has given Dina Siegel Vann, Latin American affairs director in its Center for Public

By Rebecca Lackman, Special to JTNews The Seattle Jewish Film Festival returns for its seventh year this spring, but during a different week. The

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent Volunteer social service programs are set up to provide assistance to those in need — but as so of

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As part of an annual program to promote tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe, the Seattle chapter of the

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Jewish power in America and the role of women now and in the past was the focus of the Jan. 14 Connections

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Albert Joseph Maimon needs to grow some big shoulders pretty fast. That’s the only way this litt

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The Bainbridge Island Police Dept. is confident that the person responsible for three anti-Semitic mailing

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Tax reform — read: raising taxes — may be the only way out of the state’s perpetual budget strug

By , Special to JTNews The American Society for Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (ATS) announces the appointment of Wendy Rosen, as its new

By , Special to JTNews The stage at the Stroum Jewish Community Center will light up this January with a play performed by kids in the JCC’s

By Amy Wasser-Simpson, other On the last Sunday in December 2001, a small group of dedicated volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Not all heroes are exciting. Not everyone can be a firefighter rushing into a collapsing tower. For some,

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent As the baby-boom generation has aged, we’ve discovered death whether by facing up to our own mortal