Local News (Page 12)

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews When Rabbis Beth and Jonathan Singer announced they would be leaving their positions as co-senior rabbis of Temple Beth Am earlier this year, it left this North Seattle synagogue in the unenviable position of having to find not one new rabbi, but two. FollowingContinue Reading

By Dikla Tuchman, JTNews Correspondent U.S. Senator Patty Murray visited Jewish Family Service Wednesday to tour its Polack Food Bank and speak with community members about federal funding.  “One of the reasons I wanted to be here today is to remind all of us that these are people with livesContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Although Yossi Klein Halevi will no doubt discuss his new nonfiction book, “Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation” (HarperCollins, 2013) during his StandWithUs Northwest keynote address at Town Hall on Nov. 3, he might as aptlyContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Don’t call it a cure, but children and adults with Type 1 diabetes may soon get a peaceful night’s sleep and live injection-free lives. A new combination of safe and well-tested drugs already in use for other conditions has been shown to reverse the diseaseContinue Reading

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Do you speak Jewish? It sounds like a funny question. How does one speak a religion, a culture, a people? Jews are Jewish. They speak Hebrew. Or Yiddish. Or Ladino. Or Judeo-Iranian, or Judeo-Arabic, or even — according to linguist Sarah BuninContinue Reading

By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent “Losing a child is unlike no other pain I can describe,” according to Robi Damelin. More difficult still, Damelin said, is losing that child to an act of violence, when it is often easier to turn that pain into anger. Damelin, an Israeli, andContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews From where Bret Stephens sits, the Middle East can be all-consuming. “Being as intellectually obsessed as I am with the Middle East, I have to check myself and make sure that I’m going to Asia and Europe and doing more than just covering theContinue Reading

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews On a cool evening in early October, approximately 60 women gathered in the contemporary Winston Wachter Fine Art gallery in South Lake Union. Over wine and Mediterranean-inspired appetizers, they chatted and perused the exhibits before taking their seats for a short presentation.Continue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When it comes to Jewish education, teens in search of something more than the typical classroom learning experience have plenty of options. While several synagogues around the area have long offered supplementary education within their walls, two programs have been growing either independently or asContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent It’s hard to imagine any organization having 64 locations inside of Israel, but with its newest office in Seattle, the list now includes three in the United States for the Friends of AKIM USA, the Association for the Habilitation of the Developmentally Disabled.  TheContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Think about the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle’s new rabbinical advisory council as a kind of virtual Jewish “Dear Abby,” only more like a “Dear Rabbi” multiplied by six. For the 2013-2014 school year, a group of Seattle-area religious leaders was recruited to replaceContinue Reading

By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Marcie Natan is Hadassah’s 25th national president, and the first one to visit the Northwest. According to Natan, who spoke with JTNews on an especially soggy Seattle morning, Pacific Northwest chapter president Jacquie Bayley said to her, “I don’t think we’ve everContinue Reading

By Tori Gottlieb , JTNews Correspondent Erica Nash knows firsthand about the importance of community support. Nash, who suffers from cerebral palsy, joined the Friendship Circle of Washington this summer as the director of its Walk With Friendship, which will be held next month. Now in its second year, theContinue Reading

By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews On a recent Saturday evening, with the late summer sun setting behind them, about 50 adults and children squeezed around long tables, snacking on challah rolls, tortilla chips, hummus, baby carrots and grapes. After a bit of boisterous socializing, their voices rose withContinue Reading

By Catherine Carmel , Special to JTNews “For 32 years, my job has been to be a soldier. Now my job is to get up every morning and put one foot in front of the other until I get to Katahdin,” says my husband, Rob Carmel, when he has beenContinue Reading