By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Now that it has been two months since the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle has released its Greater Seattle Jewish Community Study, what happens next? Lots of talking, for one. “We want to continue to share the information and answer questions and learnContinue Reading
Compiled by Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound With the paper shutting down after this week’s edition, and the upcoming magazine not emerging until August, there will be a gap in which many local events would otherwise be overlooked. So we are presenting to you listings of big events fromContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound What’s better than getting your lunch at one of the many food trucks around town on any given day? Getting your lunch at a food truck during Passover that’s actually kosher for Passover! Armed with an Ignition grant from the Jewish Federation ofContinue Reading
(JTA) — The Seattle-area transit authority can refuse to post an advertisement criticizing Israeli policy as long as it is part of a viewpoint-neutral ban on the subject, according to a ruling by a U.S. federal appeals court. In a ruling issued March 18, a panel of judges from theContinue Reading
By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent Nearly 30 years after he was appointed head of school at what was then the state’s only Jewish high school, Rabbi Bernie Fox will retire after the 2015-16 academic year, capping off 36 years at Northwest Yeshiva High School. “This was not an easy decision,”Continue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent Prophets in the Far East and the Holy Land explored the use of religious meditation during various periods in history, but have adopted the use of the introspective form of prayer for completely different purposes. Rabbi Shmuel Brody explains that Jewish meditation has itsContinue Reading
By Barbara Winkelman, Special to The Jewish Sound Part two in a series about a new law that may allow Sephardic Jews to return “home” to Spain. Seattle’s Sephardic population has expanded exponentially since Vivian Kahn Blum’s grandparents, Behor and Behora Chiprut, arrived in 1909, yet it is too smallContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Last Purim, Masha Shumatskaya was delivering mishloach manot to elderly Jews in her home city of Donetsk, Ukraine, when she and her friends encountered a separatist rally in front of a nearby government building. “It was a bit scary to beContinue Reading
The personalities and stories of Jewish sports heroes from across Washington State featured in the book “Distant Replay” will all be part of an interactive presentation available through the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. Individuals and family members of athletes highlighted in the 350-page book published as a fundraiser byContinue Reading
By Emma Graham In BBYO, the unspoken rules of high school do not apply. All are welcome, and everyone is made to feel important and included. In this environment, weekly meetings and events become outlets for teens who shy away from raising their hands in class or joining school clubs.Continue Reading
By Michal Lotzkar, Special to the Jewish Sound I went on a trip to Israel a few months ago. I had been to Israel many times before, and each time I travelled there by way of a different route. This time I traveled to Israel via Auschwitz, on the MarchContinue Reading
By Barbara Winkelman, Special to The Jewish Sound Vivian Blum has a story to tell. It starts in Spain in the 900s, moves to Turkey in 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain, and lands in the United States in 1909, where it remains to this day. Soon thereContinue Reading
By Ryan Torok, L.A. Jewish Journal Millennials, what are you doing this Passover? If you’re not sure, perhaps look to Seder2015. Seder2015 is the latest brainchild of Michael Hebb, 39, a self-described “food provocateur” who last grabbed national attention for launching “Death Over Dinner,” a movement that brought people togetherContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Kenneth Stein has learned a few things about his students. The professor and history scholar from Atlanta’s Emory University, who spoke to a crowd of over 50 Seattleites at Hillel at the University of Washington, said that during his 37 years of teaching IsraelContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Nobody had planned for things to work out this way. But you might call it a happy accident that Rabbi David Lipper and the congregation to which he’d been assigned as an interim rabbi decided to remove the “interim” from his title. “IContinue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent They meet religiously on Sunday mornings to worship the open road and the two-wheeled bond that brought them all together. Members of The Tribe, the region’s club for Jewish motorcycle riders, have met once every month — rain or shine — for almost aContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Thirteen years ago, the annual JTNews wine tasting was born. Today, it becomes a man. Like every lifecycle event in Jewish tradition, each one says goodbye to the past and marks the start of something new. Please join us in toastingContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent While Middle East experts wring their hands in hopes that moderate leaders can prevail in the region, George Deek, Israel’s former vice ambassador to Norway, is calling upon Palestinian Arabs to take charge of their own fate and their own future, and to stopContinue Reading
In search of old members: Ner Tamid’s 50th anniversary celebration for a shul that lasted five years Five years is a relatively short life for a synagogue, yet the 200 families that were members of Bellevue’s Congregation Ner Tamid from 1965 to 1970 share a special bond that endures, likeContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound In 1935, Lithuania-born Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan wrote “Judaism as a Civilization,” a book that reimagined the religion as a way of living and became the foundation for the Reconstructionist Movement. Many of Kaplan’s ideas are taken for granted today, but theyContinue Reading
