By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Recently, Rabbi David Forman’s 15-year-old daughter’s school in Israel was designated a bombing target for Palestinian terrorists. A 19-year-old Palestinian girl went there to attack, but was caught before the school could be damaged. Despite the fact that Forman’s teen-age daughter now talks to herContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Despite its own financial troubles, Seattle Hebrew Academy recently raised $10,500, enough to buy 20 bulletproof vests for children in Israel. The school was the top fund-raiser among some 170 schools worldwide participating in the vest campaign, Rabbi Shmuel Kay, the school’s headmaster, told studentsContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Gary Elsberry looks at Israel as the front line in the world’s war on terrorism. Elsberry, an Osage Indian living in Bellingham, is a Baptist. Like many Christians, he views the survival of the state of Israel as more than a religious issue, but evenContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The largest Jewish congregation in the Pacific Northwest is struggling with the revelation that one of Seattle’s senior rabbis has embezzled funds for at least two decades. Rabbi Earl Starr, who served Temple De Hirsch Sinai for 31 years, has agreed to give upContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The Seattle woman who has helped make Jewish education so popular that people bid on learning opportunities with her at fund-raising auctions has been named the recipient of a prestigious national award. Rivy Poupko Kletenik will be one of three Jewish educators to receiveContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Volunteers and staff of the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle jokingly call their new preschool and childcare program the “seat of our pants preschool.” The name reflects the speed at which they turned disappointing news from the Stroum Jewish Community Center — thatContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Doug Rosen will be honored with the Samuel & Althea Stroum Spirit of Inspiration award at the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s annual fund-raising dinner and auction, Night & Day for the “J,” on June 23. Rosen received a B.S. degree from the University of WashingtonContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent On a Thursday evening in April, the Northwest Chapter of the American Technion Society, together with Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue, sponsored a presentation by Israeli-born counterterrorism expert Dr. Sabi Shabtai that seemed more like a security briefing than a lecture. “Israel and theContinue Reading
By Michael U. Newman, other p class=“p1”>Vittorio De Sica’s extraordinary film “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” enters into a vanished world, into a circle of affluent and cultured young Italian Jews coming of age, searching for love and pleasure within the high walls of their opulent family homes during theContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent When Eitan Rind was a toddler, just 18 months old, his mother knew something was not right: Eitan was simply not acting the way her two older children had. He did not make eye-contact the way babies normally do. He was uninterested in the worldContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews On May 28, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle presents the exclusive Seattle screening of the epic film “Exodus.” The film has been remastered with enhanced sound and color for its 40th Anniversary World Tour. Originally released in 1961, “Exodus” will be shown in SeattleContinue Reading
By Howard Sibelman, other My wife, my daughter and I went to Israel last month on a week-long mission sponsored by United Jewish Communities, the Jewish Federation movement. We extended our visit three days so we could visit more of the country than provided for by the mission itinerary. AtContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Greater Seattle B’nai B’rith Community Service Foundation is honoring Patty Stonesifer, president and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at their annual Champion of Youth Dinner, to take place May 19 at the Elliott Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seattle. “Patty Stonesifer exemplifies B’naiContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews On June 2, the Seattle Jewish Community School will hold its 10th auction at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers. In addition to being a fun and entertaining event (John Curley, host of KING 5 Television’s “Evening Magazine,” will be master of ceremonies), the schoolContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Jewish Family Life Education, the educational arm of Jewish Family Service, invites members of the Jewish community to attend an in-depth exploration and examination of one’s Jewish identity through a nontraditional method, “Theatre of the Oppressed,” on May 19. Marc Weinblatt, the featured presenter, willContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Relationships between science and art, Seattle and Israel, and the Fred Hutchinson Center Research Center and the Weizmann Institute came together recently on the University of Washington campus. At a gala event on April 11, the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Committee for theContinue Reading
By Deloris Tarzan Ament, other Eighty percent of college-age Jews continue their education after high school. It’s a critical time in their lives, an age when they’re searching for meaning. Many of them have only scant information about their Jewish heritage. College years are the last chance to give JewishContinue Reading
By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent “I was just thinking of something that symbolizes dual heritage, and I thought Wallenberg was an outstanding example: There’s a large Scandinavian community in Seattle and there’s a growing Jewish community.” That’s how State Sen. Ken Jacobsen (D-46) recalled his idea for holding an annualContinue Reading
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