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

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Waxing nostalgic Diana Brement JTNews Columnist 1 A confluence of events brought Susan Szafir to electronicall

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist 1 It's just happenstance, I promise, but readers will see that our featured M.O.T.s have names that inadvertent

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist No, this isn't a series on the Kezner family. But if I hadn't interviewed Larry Kezner's cousin Llance last iss

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Oftentimes the greatest ideas are discovered by accident. Take Llance Kezner and his wife, Lori Peha Kezner, th

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist With one British and one South African parent, Tamara Gittelson grew up moving frequently from London to Cape T

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist 1 "We started Purple about 10 years ago — 10 years ago exactly," Larry Kurofsky told me a few weeks ago about

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It was a quiet evening at home when Arlene G. Cohen's husband Steve turned to her and said, "Do you want to mov

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A native of our fair state, Sheila (Schain) Stuart, has just completed a term as mayor of Cambridge, England. B

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Remembering the "feeling of fear and isolation" that haunted her as a child in Rochester during her own mother

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Supporters and clients of Jewish Family Service in Seattle are already aware of the construction project that h

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist In 1975 at age 16, and a student at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Rob Rose spent eight months in Calcutta

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist There's a new organization in town — and around the country. Founded by local philanthropist Mark Bloome, TAP-A

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist "I covered the story from the beginning...in early 2007," says "barefoot bandologist" Jackson Holtz. The Hera

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A self-described "small-town kid from Vashon," Gary Johnson feels like he's come a long way to his recent appo

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The challenge of being a dietician, says Lorren Negrin, is how people perceive her profession as a bunch of peo

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Just a few months into her first year at Whitman College, Talia Rudee started a chapter of Challah for Hunger.

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Our region has been in a hubbub over radiation leaks from the earthquake-ravaged Japanese power plants and, it

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Seattle glass artist Roger Nachman in his studio with one of the "raindrops" from his "Joyful Rain" install

By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist It sounds like the start of a bad joke. A Saudi Arabian student comes to Seattle to attend a Catholic high scho