By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Jewish representatives on the Church Council of Greater Seattle, a coalition of about 450 churches in King a

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Leaders of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle allocated a total of $5.9 million to Jewish causes

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent More than 200 attended a Torah dedication at Sephardic Bikur Holim and Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath on Jul

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent After 34 years at Northwest Harvest, Executive Director Ruth Velozo is retiring at the end of this month. S

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington has set its sights on two areas of research that

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent The Seattle Jewish Chapel has its first permanent home in more than two years, following the dedication at

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Talk to the people who knew and loved Herb Rosen and you may begin to form the mistaken impression tha

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews When Rabbi Earl Starr sat down to reminisce recently about his 30 years at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, one

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews During a year when many saw the impacts of an economic downturn, the Jewish community dug deep to pled

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Gary Pollock says his 17th year as director of the Stroum Jewish Community Center will be his last. He

By , Special to JTNews Over the past six years, many JDS students in grades 5—8 have chosen to spend a wintery Sunday morning taking either the PL

By , Special to JTNews Eight JDS students in grades 2—5 will join hundreds of other students in a three-week summer program sponsored by the Belle

By Abigail Brown, Special to JTNews Ninety students and twenty-somethings from Seattle or Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the Universi

By , Special to JTNews Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ordained Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl, a native of Tacoma, and Rabbis La

By , Special to JTNews NEW YORK — Late last month, the Mandel Foundation convened the third assembly of a new tier of senior professionals in Jewi

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The prophet Isaiah exhorted: “All of your children shall be taught of the Lord.” Some rabbinic s

By Lorraine Sidell, Special to JTNews There were more than a few misty eyes among those gathered to escort the newly acquired Torah into The Summi

By , Special to JTNews The American Jewish Press Association presented The Jewish Transcript with a first-place honor in its Simon Rockower Awards

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Washington state residents who survived the Holocaust are tired of waiting. Despite well-publicized an

By , Special to JTNews On May 20, the Jewish Club of Washington held its annual election meeting and at the same time celebrated Klaus Stern’