By Ed Harris, Jewish Sound Columnist I knew being a father would bring surprises: Becoming a “Dancing Dad” is one, however, I never saw coming. I am in fact a terrible dancer, much to my wife’s disappointment, as her favorite leisure-time activity when we first met was folk dancing. EarlyContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound columnist 1 “For improving health — and giving hope — to the world’s most vulnerable people,” Celina Schocken recently received a distinguished alumni award from Lakeside High School for her work in international public health. Now living in the New York area, Celina returned home toContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s happened to all of us. Whether we drank too much coffee before bedtime, ate too much rich or spicy food, exercised too close to lights out, or consumed too much alcohol, we toss and turn, and maybe fall asleep for a while beforeContinue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Jewish Sound Columnist Dear Rivy, I can barely contain myself. I just read the article by Paul Greenberg, “Holocaust Day Again” — posted all over the Internet. It is revolting on so many levels. Here is what he writes: Another year, another Holocaust Day — justContinue Reading
By Michael Natkin, Jewish Sound Columnist This salad is great to have in your back pocket for those potlucks and picnics that are starting to pop up on your calendar. It is easy to make, light and healthy, and packed with flavor that adults will love, but manageable for kidsContinue Reading
Diana Brement JTNews Columnist 1 “It’s just a magical spot… [and] so hard to leave” explains Hannah Cordes about moving her family from Seattle to Winthrop this past fall. Having spent weekends and vacations in their “tiny cabin” (500 square feet!), they found themselves “falling in love with the wholeContinue Reading
Ed Harris, Jewish Sound Columnist The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article entitled “The Long (Long) Wait to be a Grandparent.” Tell me about it. We baby boomers took longer to marry and have kids than prior generations, and millennials are pushing these traditional milestones of adulthood out evenContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist If you know me, you know I’m a regular blood donor who enjoys nagging folks to do the same. Lynn Gottlieb is a much better example than me, however. Having donated over 100 pints, she’s earned a leaf on the Puget Sound Blood Center’sContinue Reading
A Spanish tortilla is nothing like a Mexican tortilla. In Spain, a tortilla is a thick potato and egg omelet. Tortilla is perfect for Passover because it is parve, and can be made well ahead and served cool or quickly rewarmed for an easy lunch or appetizer. The most commonContinue Reading
Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Jewish Sound Columnist Dear Rivy, There’s no getting away from it. Pesach is up next. I’ve been known to embrace the “Pesach denial attitude” in past years — closing my eyes as I pass the Passover aisle in the supermarket, delicately stepping away from the over-the-top, gung-hoContinue Reading
1 Seattle auctioneer David Silverman has built on his foundation as a song-and-dance man to help countless organizations raise money for good causes. An auctioneer has “a huge advantage to being in theater,” he says. “You have to be able to make that flip [from] making people smile…to getting themContinue Reading
Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes within the last four years, there’s more good news from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher Dr. Eli Lewis. The most recent results from Phase 1 of Lewis’s second round of clinical trialsContinue Reading
By Ed Harris Recently, my wife and youngest son, Izzy, went to Los Angeles on midwinter school break. The first day of our vacation was spent at Disneyland. While at the Magic Kingdom I reminisced about my first Disney experience, at Disney World in Florida, which took place on aContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist 1I reached out to David Feinberg after seeing his name in a Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Magazine article about local beekeepers who have worked with SeaTac Airport to set up hives there, “for artistic and commercial and genetic reasons,” David explains. The hives are keptContinue Reading
By Michael Natkin, JTNews Columnist This refreshing celery and fennel salad is a riff on one that I had at Bastille in Ballard. Their celery salad had tiny pumpernickel croutons and baby artichokes. The one I’ve got for you today has fennel instead of the artichokes, and shaved frozen blueContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist “I’m completely non-practicing and in fact a (polite) atheist with a very dim view of religion in general,” jazz radio host Dick Stein averred in an email when I contacted him for an interview. I assured him I couldn’t care less. What I wanted toContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Columnist It’s only a tiny percentage point of difference, but new diabetes research from Tel Aviv University shows that a seemingly insignificant difference in blood sugar readings could buy you a lot of valuable time — and maybe even save your life. In January 2014, researchersContinue Reading
America is a mobile society, and a lot of people have moved away from the hometowns where their sports loyalties initially formed.Continue Reading
There’s something magnetic about the Beatles and so much that is still so universal about their music.Continue Reading
By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist Joshua Friedes says he’ll be able to use a lot of what he learned championing marriage equality in this state in his new job as director of regional operations and strategy at J Street. The pro-Israel organization supports a two-state solution for Israel andContinue Reading
