By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, A friend of mine is getting married this fall and came to me with some questions about the wedding ceremony. She and her fiancé are pretty secular, but she is still oriented toward tradition. She needs some help understanding one of theContinue Reading
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 move to the South Pacific?” Steve was a tax attorney in private practice and had seen an ad for a job in Saipan,Continue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist A native of our fair state, Sheila (Schain) Stuart, has just completed a term as mayor of Cambridge, England. Born in Seattle, Sheila moved with her parents, Sid and Vicki Schain, to Yakima and then the Tri-Cities for a time, before the family settled inContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist They’re out there at their keyboards, typing out their thoughts for you. Writing daily, weekly, or when they have something to say, these bloggers are hard at work on our home shores. (By complete coincidence, the three Jewish bloggers sampled here came originally from NewContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I confess: I became drawn in and addicted to the Casey Anthony trial. There is something captivating about this mystery — I cannot get enough. I cannot believe that she is going to allowed to go free; a mother who did notContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Remembering the “feeling of fear and isolation” that haunted her as a child in Rochester during her own mother’s battle with breast cancer, Anna Gottlieb became a fan and donor of the cancer support organization Gilda’s Club from its earliest days in New York. VisitingContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Supporters and clients of Jewish Family Service in Seattle are already aware of the construction project that has dominated the organization’s land at the corner of 16th Avenue and Pine Street for the past few months. Ed Weinstein, architect of JFS’s new offices, just receivedContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, I am being urged by just about everyone I know to get on Facebook. My friends are threatening to write me off saying that I am “out of it.” I am not old nor am I not hip — I actually thinkContinue Reading
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, India as a Rotary exchange student. That “formative experience…opened up my perspective, my world view,” Rob says. It also laid the foundation forContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, We are getting newly involved in Judaism, thanks to our little one being enrolled in a Jewish early childhood program. Each Friday she proudly brings home a freshly baked challah. She is so thrilled that I’m thinking I should hop on boardContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist There’s a new organization in town — and around the country. Founded by local philanthropist Mark Bloome, TAP-America — Tolerance, Americanism, Patriotism — inspires tolerance and economic viability. Calling it “spiritual,” not political, Mark says TAP grew out of many years of his own spiritualContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist “I covered the story from the beginning…in early 2007,” says “barefoot bandologist” Jackson Holtz. The Herald of Everett reporter just released his book, Fly, Colton, Fly, about “Barefoot Bandit” Colton Harris-Moore, the teenage Camano Island burglar who branched out into national and international theft beforeContinue Reading
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 appointment by Gov. Chris Gregoire to the Pierce County Superior Court, replacing Judge Gary Steiner, who retired Feb. 1. He traces his success directly to the NationalContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, It’s as if I’m paralyzed when I think about this year’s Pesach. I am unable to plan or to get up my usual excitement. Like you, this year brought the passing of a parent and I now face the reality of beingContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist The challenge of being a dietician, says Lorren Negrin, is how people perceive her profession as a bunch of people saying “we want you to go on a diet.” But, really, she explains, “I’m all about moderation and no diets.” The Seattle Pacific University gradContinue Reading
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. Every Friday afternoon you can find her and another volunteer selling fresh-baked challah at Reid Hall — challah that volunteers have made over the previousContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist Dear Rivy, As we deliberate over summer plans for our family, the idea of sending the kids to a Jewish camp keeps popping up. I never went to camp, let alone a Jewish camp. The whole camping thing seems so strange. I look forwardContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Our region has been in a hubbub over radiation leaks from the earthquake-ravaged Japanese power plants and, it turns out, when you need to know if and when the radiation is going to hit Washington, a local atmospheric scientist is the go-to guy and heContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Seattle glass artist Roger Nachman in his studio with one of the “raindrops” from his “Joyful Rain” installation that will head up to Harborview Elementary School in Juneau. The artwork is upside down, as an image would be when seen through the lens of aContinue Reading
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 school and live with a Jewish family that keeps kosher. But it’s true. Mohammed Ashgan is the student from Riyadh, and he is livingContinue Reading
