Category: M.O.T.: Member of the Tribe

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It's a purple garden in a purple house. The purple house is real. It's Ruz Gulko's home in Bellevue and a local

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I recently received an e-mail from Amy Gray. She told me my closets were dusty. How did she know, I wondered? S

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Northwest Yeshiva High School grad Gilah Kletenik spent eight weeks this summer on an Orthodox Union-sponsored

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist On a quiet dead-end street in Seattle's Madrona neighborhood, Zachary Self and Aaron Walker-Loud have set up sh

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Many readers may remember the Bar and Bat Mitzvah twinning program of the 1980s, which paired Soviet Jews denie

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Although Rabbi Anson Laytner has served in a variety of professional positions in Seattle over the years, and i

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Lysa Adams is determined to raise money to fight the auto-immune disease lupus and set a record at the same tim

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Jewish Day School faculty member Nance Adler has been awarded a Legacy Heritage Jewish Communal Scholarship for

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Miriam Bensky and I have something unusual in common. When I asked her recently where she grew up, she answered

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist If you watch the National Geographic channel's "Is It Real?" series, you may have seen Steven Blum in the segm

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Seattle Jewish community activists Alice and Art Siegel were honored last Friday for their long-standing involv

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist North Seattle resident Jill Cohen got to use a few of her 15 minutes of fame when she was quoted in the April 9

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Freelance writer Michelle Goodman has been sharing her experience and advice with other self-employed writers f

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist For Sol Sylvan, it all started with a party. A family reunion, that is. In the process of preparing for the 199