By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Josh Furman hadn’t planned to be Seattle’s go-to guy for events for young Jewish adults, but sometimes life takes you on strange trips. Just ask the guy whose events as director of Jconnect, the program for 21—32-year-olds at Hillel at the University of Washington, have includedContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent As chief of staff for fifth district Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Jeremy Deutsch is a busy guy, working “roughly” 12-hour days, six days a week. (We suspect it’s more.) “I try not to work on Shabbos,” he says. Deutsch has worked for McMorris Rodgers —Continue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Probably like many of her colleagues at Brandeis University, Whitney Stern foresaw a career in human services. But when this student of sociology, politics and Latin American studies spent her junior year abroad in Chile, that started to change. Sort of. “I was livingContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Last Wednesday, Dave Sanford stopped by the Columbia City farmer’s market, picked up the first fava beans and summer squash of the season, and took them home to cook for dinner. It was “just a plate of those awesome veggies, what I found from my localContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Sun streams through the window of Revive Therapeutics. The small waiting room, mildly Asian-inspired and adorned with a vase of orange flowers and neat stacks of books, emits a feeling of calm. Like it should. Revive, which houses and co-operates with Hillside Acupuncture, openedContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Both Emily and Aaron Alhadeff shy away from being called the Seattle Jewish community’s up-and-coming power couple. But Emily is on the verge of taking the presidency of one of Seattle’s two largest and most visible organizations, and Aaron is a year from becoming president ofContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews When I ask sports anchor Aaron Levine about his passions outside of work, he replies: Golf. Levine, 29, is the lead sports anchor Monday through Thursday on the Fox Network’s Seattle affiliate Q13. He also hosts his own half-hour show, “Q It Up,” onContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews He’s still got about a week before he officially steps into his role as Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s director of congregational learning, but participants at an early childhood educators’ conference earlier this week certainly got a taste of what’s to come. Rabbi Daniel Septimus spoke animatedlyContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Columnist Although he is running for office — Seattle City Council Position 1 — Michael Taylor-Judd says, “I’m pretty busy, but I’m not sure my life is radically different” from before. The 36-year-old continues to work part-time at the foundation for Health Care Quality, where he’s workedContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent “Make sure you say I’m a very forgiving editor,” says Joel Magalnick as we sit down to talk near his home in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood. I’ve wondered for years when I could turn my keyboard on the man who says “yea” or “nay” to my storyContinue Reading
