By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Maria Erlitz can sum up her retirement from the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle in two words: “It’s time.” With an education consulting business that she put on hold for her position as head of school and a desire to slow down, Erlitz feltContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews On Sunday, June 16, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation witnessed history when Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum officiated the synagogue’s first same-sex wedding. Audrey Covner and Diane Dougherty, partners for three decades and the parents of two teenage daughters, were married at the Seattle Aquarium beforeContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Around Passover time, Galit Ezekiel is busy. Very busy. “I strive to meet every single person who comes to the lunches,” says Ezekiel, development director at Hillel at the University of Washington, to the community Passover meals the organization hosts each year. Ezekiel, nowContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Hold the spinach puffs. After 15 years of serving the community, Seattle-based kosher catering company Nosh Away is closing its doors. “Since 2008, business has steadily declined in the catering aspect,” said Phillip Klitzner, who runs Nosh Away with his wife Dayna.Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent It is somewhat of a triumph that the American Jewish Press Association is having its 2013 annual conference in Seattle, since the economic recession battered so many Jewish publications and general media in the U.S. and caused them to slash budgets and shed staff.Continue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews On Sunday, June 16, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation will witness history in the making when Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum officiates the synagogue’s first same-sex wedding. Audrey Covner and Diane Dougherty, partners for three decades and the parents of two teenage daughters, will be marriedContinue Reading
By Makena Owens, Special to JTNews What do you get when you combine a Wal-Mart lunchbox, a radar reflector, a parachute, and a giant, six-foot balloon? This unusual list of materials was collected and assembled into a device used to collect atmospheric data by three seniors at Northwest Yeshiva HighContinue Reading
By Hillel Kuttler , Special to JTNews Leila Gray Shapiro entered the world last October 23. Because the Sacramento Kings’ NBA season was then beginning, her uncle Daniel, a coach on the team, couldn’t see little Leila for a while — so her Jewish baby-naming ceremony had to be delayedContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Download a PDF of all of the Federation’s grants here. If there’s one direction the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle has gone with its agency allocations, it’s more deep and less wide. “One of the focuses we had this year…was to grant in a moreContinue Reading
By , JTNews Correspondent Mazel tov to all of the graduates of 2013! The 8th-grade graduating class of the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle. (Photo Courtesy JDS.) The graduating class from the Jewish High supplementary community school. (Photo courtesy Jewish High.) The Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder 8th-grade boys’ graduatingContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Two years ago, Chabad of the Central Cascades in Issaquah opened a preschool. Four children enrolled. This year, says Rabbi Shalom Farkash, they already have 15 kids registered, and he expects a few stragglers to join by the September start date. “ItContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent At a community briefing at Seattle’s Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Rep. Adam Smith (D-9th District) used a long checklist to discuss America’s role in the Middle East: The Obama administration’s actions in the region, characterized by caution; remaining disengaged in Syria; top-level diplomacy throughContinue Reading
By Arthur Wolak, Special to JTNews VANCOUVER — A grand ceremony to dedicate British Columbia’s first synagogue will be reenacted on June 2, exactly 150 years to the day following the establishment of Congregation Emanu-El in downtown Victoria, the picturesque capital of Canada’s western-most province. Established during the Gold RushContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Antioch University, a one-building institution in downtown Seattle serving 900 students, has been holding Israel Apartheid Week for six years. This year, a tiny band of activists tried to put an end to it — and succeeded. Sort of. Efrat Gilad, an artContinue Reading
By , JTNews Correspondent By finishing at 14-1, the Seattle Hebrew Academy’s girls’ basketball team had its best season in its history. According to the team’s coach, Jed Davis, “Team unity was at the highest level,” he wrote in an email to the school’s parents. “The work ethic in practiceContinue Reading
By Russell Lidman, Special to JTNews Let’s take a look back at a headline in The Olympian, dated April 1938: “Jewish folk in church ceremony.” The “church” in question was the newly completed Temple Beth Hatfiloh, which has been celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. The use of the termContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews When Urmi Basu was 9 years old and growing up in the genteel suburbs of Kolkata (Calcutta), India, she survived an attack on her family by a rival political group. “My father was stabbed in three places,” she said. “Our house was burntContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Rabbis Beth and Jonathan Singer know they’re taking a risk. When the co-senior rabbis of Temple Beth Am pack up and leave Seattle at the end of June, they’ll be moving from their large synagogue community to one that’s more than double the size.Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent It’s taken two years, but in mid-April Washington’s nearly century-old Caroline Kline Galland Home opened its new home health care agency to all eligible clients in the Jewish community and to all who qualify in King County. After complying with hundreds of federal MedicareContinue Reading
By Tim Klass , JTNews Correspondent Updated May 22, 2013. A teacher at Torah Day School of Seattle pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree child molestation on Monday, May 20. If convicted, Jordan Eareckson Murray, 32, could face from 149 to 198 months in prison with an indeterminateContinue Reading
