By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews You could say she was hand-picked for the job. When Tana Senn was sworn in as the newest member of the state legislature on Monday, the moment followed a whirlwind of activity after Senn’s predecessor announced her resignation from her seat earlier in theContinue Reading
By Judy Lash Balint , Special to JTNews JERUSALEM — Congressman Dave Reichert (R-8th) made his first visit to Israel last week, not as part of a formal congressional delegation, but with a small group of first responders whom he regards as his peers. Reichert, who spent the majority ofContinue Reading
By Esther Goldberg, Special to JTNews On July 29 and 30 at the Hillel Institute in St. Louis, Mo., Hillel at the University of Washington was presented with a Visions and Values Award from Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life for its innovative development program. Four other Vision andContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Back-to-school season is always a little chaotic. All the more so for Torah Day School, which in addition to preparing a new school building this fall had about three months to hire a new head of school. The Orthodox day school in SouthContinue Reading
By Esther Goldberg, other Independent media ethics forum, the Washington News Council (WNC), will attend this year’s Alliance of Independent Press Councils conference September 9-12 in Tel Aviv. Israel’s President Shimon Peres will address the conference. The press councils review complaints from organizations or individuals against media outlets that haveContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent If there’s one thing Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) learned during a weeklong trip to Israel, it’s that nothing in the region, in particular peace talks, is simple. “I don’t think anybody was Pollyannaish about thinking it’s going to be easy,” Kilmer told JTNews. KilmerContinue Reading
By Tori Gottlieb, JTNews Correspondent With the departure of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath’s rabbi earlier this summer, members of the congregation’s religious committee knew they would have their hands full finding someone to lead services for the quickly approaching High Holy Days. “Repentance is a big goal [of the holidays],Continue Reading
By Tova Ross , Special to JTNews Rather than throw their 1-year old son Idan a birthday party this past July, Amanda and Akiva Zablocki of Manhattan celebrated in a more unconventional way: By finally picking a hospital for Idan’s bone marrow transplant. Idan has Hyper IgM, a rare andContinue Reading
By Vic Alhadeff, Special to JTNews The Jewish community of Rhodes, Greece came to life when 35 people from around the world journeyed to the island recently for a special service. The service was held in the synagogue in which the Jewish story is infused in every brick, ingrained inContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews The front of the new Congregation Beth Israel from the front of the 17-acre property. The construction of a new synagogue in Bellingham has been a decades-long process. But much has changed, in particular over the past year — including an actual structure. “InContinue Reading
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Need a place to spend your High Holidays? We’ve got a compilation of services across the state, and they’re all happy to welcome you in. Please contact the individual congregation for tickets or any further information. Holiday times Erev Rosh Hashanah: Wednesday, SeptemberContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews What’s in your garden? Are you willing to share what you’ve grown? As more studies emerge about the correlation between healthy eating and better performance in the workplace and classroom, food banks are beginning to make a more concerted effort to provide healthy produce andContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent She’s 69 and plans to spend a lot of time with her 24 grandchildren. They are 17 and 18 and preparing to join the Israeli Defense Forces. The last two are in their 60s and preparing to live out their lifelong dream. These sixContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The search continues at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle for a new head of school to replace the recently retired Maria Erlitz. But in the meanwhile, the Bellevue school has hired Mike Downs, a bilingual Hebrew and English-speaking, non-Jewish independent school leader whoContinue Reading
By Rabbi Rachel Esserman , other When someone asks me Judaism’s position on a particular subject, I usually answer, “Which Jewish tradition do you want to hear?” I’m not just talking about the differences between contemporary religious movements, but the fact that Judaism — from biblical times to the presentContinue Reading
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By Diana Brement , JTNews Columnist “It’s not very Jewish,” a friend commented, leafing through Jason Prangnell’s New Jewish Cooking, (Absolute, cloth, $37.50). But that’s half the point of these meat and parve recipes from London’s Bevis Marks Restaurant. Kosher cookbook authors have long extended “kosher” past the kugel, kashaContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent In the latest round of the political ad smack-downs between Middle East advocacy groups vying for turf on the sides of King County Metro transit buses, two are once again battling it out in a war of words. In 2010, after a torrent of publicContinue Reading
