By , If you didn’t know it already, the crossword puzzle that appears in this newspaper also appears in life size on the wall at Capitol Hill’s Eltana bagel café in Seattle. The Eltana version is a weekly moveable sculpture (to match your moveable feast), made of white crossword tilesContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Did you catch the latest “America’s Got Talent?” It’s the one with the adorable kippah-wearing Jewish kid, Edan Pinochot, singing One Republic’s “Good Life.” Is it a moment of pride for the Jewish community when Edan is chosen by the judges, HowardContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist It’s difficult to overestimate the global impact that the new partnership between the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Cornell University, CornellNYC Tech, will have on the future of research and new technology. But last month, on May 22, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Google,Continue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist She was born and raised on the wet side, but Seattle native Josey Fast is now enjoying life on the dry side of the Cascade curtain as the owner of the only commercial art gallery in the Yakima Valley. The Franklin High and WesternContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Brett Alkan found a kidney donor through Facebook and it appears he is on the, ahem, cutting edge of a trend (sorry!). The day after I interviewed the future transplant recipient, NPR aired a story on trends in organ donation. These include adding donation statusContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am so sad for Shavuot. It’s almost over before it gets started! The upcoming festival is so low key, with no big seder, no temporary abode on the deck or backyard. Can’t we come up with something a bit, dareContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist When I asked Hilary Stern how she was inspired to work for Casa Latina, the immigrant aid organization, she offered “the Jewish answer,” explaining, “my grandparents were immigrants and…if they hadn’t made that decision, my life would have been completely different. I’ve really benefitted fromContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist While Israel celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israeli innovations all too often seem to fall “under the radar” of most of the general public today. The country’s contributions include medical research, new technologies, advances in biotechnology,Continue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I don’t know what to think after seeing the Oscar-nominated Israeli movie, “Footnote.” On one hand, it was exhilarating to see the inside world of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University and to have a glimpse of the intricate inner workings of Talmud study. OnContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist The facts about diabetes are startling. Of the 346 million people worldwide who now live with the disease, there are nearly 26 million in the United States, and hundreds of thousands in Israel. Fully 10 percent of adults in that country live with theContinue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist This past August found Henry Butler turning 90, and this past Purim found him pouring shots of schnapps, whiskey and other spirits at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. An active member of the congregation since the late 1950s, he’s handled that particular job forContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I easily spotted Carolyn Bernhard’s mass of gray curls on the TV monitor at my gym early last month. She and other volunteers from Prevention WINS were making an appearance on “New Day,” a Seattle daytime talk show on KING-5 TV. (Conversely, Carolyn wanted toContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, So much attention is lavished by all of us on the night of the seder; the meticulous preparations, the elaborate menu and of course the Seder proceedings themselves. Of course, what with the wide variety of Haggadahs that one can purchaseContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Recently named one of New York University’s 15 most influential students, Chelsea Garbell was nominated primarily for her work with Bridges, a Jewish-Muslim dialogue group sponsored by the Bronfman Center at the school and an official school club (www.bridges.bronfmancenter.org). The Seattle Hebrew Academy and NorthwestContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist Your chances of developing Alzheimer’s Disease double about every five years after the age of 65, according to the Alzheimer’s Association, but after the age of 85, the odds of developing the symptoms are almost 50 percent. As researchers around the world race to findContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist I arrived at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum to interview Frieda Sondland, finding her in the lobby getting the rock-star treatment from a handful of admirers. Frieda has received much notice, including a feature in the Seattle Times, for being a citizen curator of one ofContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Nineteenth and 20th-century Yiddish and Russian literature and drama is her field, but UW Professor Barbara Henry is not Jewish. Yiddish was in the water where she grew up in New Jersey, she explains. She loved klezmer as a child and “wanted to know whatContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik , JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, Have you heard about the latest literary challenge? Six word memoirs! I read about them in the latest O magazine. Here is what it’s all about: Larry Smith threw out a challenge on his online publication, SMITH Magazine. It seems heContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Columnist The search for love and happiness often takes strategy and planning for many women at different stages of their lives, and often runs the gamut, typically from bars to boyfriends to betrothal to babies. And on that road to bliss and fulfillment, a girlContinue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Jamie Peha gets to do what she loves best — work with food and wine. Jamie started Peha Promotions, her food and beverage marketing and PR business, seven years ago. This former hospitality major at WSU managed restaurants for 20 years before becoming marketingContinue Reading
