By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color” (working title), a new four-part series produced by Seattle’s public broadcasting station, KCTS, will combine previously unseen color film from the 1930s and 1940s with passages from diaries and letters of American soldiers and their lovedContinue Reading
By Karen Treiger, Special to JTNews As we wound our way up through the mountains in the desert landscape, we could almost imagine that we were ascending the hills of Jerusalem. But that was not the case. We were in the Cascade Mountains on our way to Sun River, Ore.Continue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Pound for pound, Jeremy Benezra may be the strongest teenager in Washington State. The graduating senior from Newport, east of Bellevue, laid claim to the title by taking first place in the Washington state high school powerlifting championships for his weight class. The contest wasContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When Eastsiders Cooksie and Lionel Kramer arrived from South Africa nine years ago, they discovered a shortage of live jazz east of Seattle. Instead of just complaining about the lack of their favorite music in their new neighborhood, they did something about it. They startedContinue Reading
By Joshua Rosenstein, other Simone Edwards, a 6’4″center for the Seattle Storm WNBA team does not look like your average Israeli. When she speaks English, the Jamaican-born Edwards doesn’t sound much like an Israeli either. But when you hear her sing “Hatikva,” which she knows by heart, there can beContinue Reading
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent It’s 6 o’clock in the morning and Peter Alexander is more cheerful than anyone has a right to be at this hour. But then, he should be. At 25, he’s already anchoring the “Q-13 Morning News” and the media is comparing him to NBC “Today”Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Leaders from Jewish organizations and interfaith groups who spoke at Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s recent community-wide meeting on June 6, “Beyond Conflict: Toward Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace,” actually agreed on one thing — that if there is to be some sort of peace in theContinue Reading
By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The reminiscences were sometimes tearful, often humorous and always heartfelt as members of Temple Beth Hatfiloh honored Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz, who has stepped down from her pulpit after serving this South Sound congregation for 13 years. The June 30 gathering included singing, the showing ofContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews The Seattle Hebrew Academy announces the (re)opening of its Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) at its north Capitol Hill site. The program, once operated by SHA, has just completed a two-year association with the Stroum Jewish Community Center. Rabbi Shmuel Kay, SHA head of school,Continue Reading
By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle was recently awarded a 2002 Communications Award for “maintaining standards of excellence” in promoting its 2001 Night & Day for the “J” annual fundraiser. The Jewish Community Centers of North America Association honored the Stroum JCC withContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Families happen in all sorts of ways. People marry and have babies as they always have; “blended families,” bring together children in second marriages. In some cases people resort to modern science to help have children when the old-fashioned ways fail. For Steven and RachelyContinue Reading
By Max Huer, other NEW YORK, June 5 (JTA) — As Robin Wehl listens to an Austrian radio station streamed over the Internet, she understands bits and pieces of the German that her father, who left the country on the eve of World War II, spoke when Wehl was aContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews It took the wisdom of King Solomon — and more than 50 hours of meetings — for two Jewish Federation committees to figure out how to allocate funds from the 2002 Community Campaign, which brought in $374,492 less to allocate than the previous year’sContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Over 770 children will be joining the Camp Solomon Schechter family for its 48th summer, having doubled in size over the past five years under the direction of executive director Hilary Buff. This year, the camp welcomes Jodi Sperling as its full-time director and fifthContinue Reading
By Allison Covey, Special to JTNews After only four short days of being in the state of Israel — a land of war and religion, ancient culture and modern metropolises — I found myself standing in front of the Western Wall (Kotel) in the center of Old Jerusalem. The holiestContinue Reading
By Stephen Adler, Special to JTNews Would you knowingly deal with a company that owes you or your parents money? Would you knowingly deal with a company that owes members of the Jewish community money on their insurance policies? Large European insurance companies sold insurance to Jews in Germany, France,Continue Reading
By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews When the Sisterhood of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue decided to beautify the walls of the social hall, they also decided to approach the project from an entirely new angle — they decided to involve the entire congregation in creating the art. Although “artContinue Reading
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By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Manli Ho, daughter of Holocaust rescuer Dr. Feng Shan Ho, addressed an audience of some 60 appreciative listeners on the subject of her father on May 23 at the Wing Luke Asian Museum. The evening program began with a short video about Dr. Ho thatContinue Reading
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