Local News (Page 103)

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent About two dozen volunteer tutors, who are helping to make sure that “no child is left behind,” greeted Seattle Schools Superintendent Joseph Olchefske at an informal reception, March 29. The tutors are all part of the “Study Buddy” program, sponsored by the Jewish Federation ofContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent This is the first in a two-part series about domestic violence in Seattle’s Jewish community. This piece discusses the stigma surrounding domestic violence in our community, while the following piece will show resources and ways of eliminating violence from relationships. Deborah DeDonaldo tells her storyContinue Reading

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By Susan Beardsley, other In one of the more intriguing chapters of the Holocaust, nearly 20,000 Jews fled Europe to the safety of the exotic city of Shanghai. Dana Janklowicz-Mann was inspired by her father’s memories to document the history of the Shanghai Ghetto. Janklowicz-Mann and her partner Amir MannContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent In 1978, El Al flight attendant Yulie Cohen Gerstel was nearly killed in a terrorist attack on the jet she had just flown into London. More than two decades later, as a wife and mother, she became involved in an effort to gain parole forContinue Reading

By Robert Shay, other I recently received an e-mail asking me if a certain series of older Jewish children’s videos were available on DVD, because as the sender wrote , “…I no long own a VCR.” I counseled the e-mailer that the $50 to $100 investment in a new VCRContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent The debut of Seattle Jewish Theatre at the Stroum Jewish Community Center comes April 3. That evening, the new company will feature Beau Jest, a popular play that focuses on interfaith marriage. The theatre company chose Beau Jest, a comedy written in 1989 by JewishContinue Reading

By Andrew Tarica, Special to JTNews Part 1 of Star of the Jungle appeared in the March 7, 2003 edition of the Jewish Transcript. The motorcarro driver dropped me off early Sunday morning down a ramshackle dirt road, and I wondered if I was at the right place. I sawContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Two students and a professor came to Seattle recently to share their experiences of life in Israel and at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology during a time of war. Professor Adi Salzberg and students Oshra Greenblum and Sagi Rotem visited an American Technion Society gathering inContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews In the war of propaganda between Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinians have a decisive advantage. Now an Israeli policy institute, with help from local sources, wants to try to even the playing field. Professor Yoav Gelber, chair of Haifa University’s School of History, butContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel and Joel Magalnick, other Jews living in Washington State are finding that the degree of vigilance to go to a synagogue service or drop off children at a Jewish school has been bumped up a few notches. Although security measures currently in place are not as obviousContinue Reading

By Rita Weinstein, JTNews Correspondent The athletes and stars you love to watch have them. So do successful businesspeople. What they have are professional coaches that help them maintain their success in reaching their chosen goals or in formulating new ones. Stuart Kaufman is a professional personal and business coachContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Herman Goebbels’ strategy of “The Big Lie” is alive and well, and being used against Israel and Jews in general, according to Kenneth Jacobson, Director of the International Affairs Division of the Anti-Defamation League. The first Big Lie, he explained, has been circulating throughout theContinue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent A unique concert series called The American String Project presents its second season in Seattle this month. Fifteen world-class string players will gather at Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya, to transform familiar chamber music into the fuller sound of a string orchestra. It’sContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent A Jewish flavor will spice up the Seattle Baroque’s upcoming concert, which will be centered on Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. In addition to music by Monteverdi, one of Italy’s most famous composers during the early 17th century, the concert will also feature music by lesser-knownContinue Reading

By Andrew Tarica, Special to JTNews Iquitos was an unlikely spot to meet a lost tribe of Jews. But on the bumpy bus ride from the airport into the center of the town, one of the first things I noticed, next to a stand selling ceviche and Inca cola, wasContinue Reading