By Interview by Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews JTNews: First, some basics. How old are you and where are you from? Hannah Mayne: I’m 27 and I’m originally from Ottawa, Canada. JT: We understand that you will be sharing ethnographic vignettes of women’s lives in West Bank settlements. TellContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews I don’t remember much of high school. Even the memory of my teen trip to Israel, which in many ways changed the course of my life, appears in short flashes, like the remaining few intact frames on a long reel of disintegratedContinue Reading
By Gwen Davis, JTNews Correspondent Kids like pomegranates. Especially Rosie, a 4th-grade student at the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder Day School. So when MMSC teamed up with Seattle Hebrew Academy and three other Seattle Jewish day schools to celebrate Tu B’Shevat — the Jewish New Year for trees — RosieContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews On January 27, eight residents of the Summit at First Hill celebrated the launch of their literary anthology with the community. “Stories from the Summit” consists of memoirs as well as two pieces of short fiction, and is the culmination of aContinue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, other These profiles, written by Dan Aznoff, are all a part of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society’s “Instant Replay” year in sports. The Historical Society is still welcoming profiles of local athletes to join these and the many others that will be part of a forthcomingContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews As Shabbat came to a close on Jan. 19, the parking lot at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island was lined with limousines. Fifteen stretch limos, and their chauffeurs, carried 135 teens from most of the area’s Jewish youth groups — NCSY, NFTY,Continue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff , Associate Editor, JTNews Imagine: Tomorrow the economy collapses. The ATMs are empty, your savings are gone, and you have no work. The hospitals run out of medicine. Fifteen presidents take over the country over the course of five days. This is exactly what happened inContinue Reading
By Gwen Davis , JTNews Correspondent It ain’t no lie: Seattle’s Orthodox Jews love their kosher restaurants. And they cherish them, too. Kosher restaurants in this region are a scarce and precious commodity. None can be taken for granted, and any put-downs of the food usually result in immediate backlashContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Have synagogues been doing membership backwards? “Many of our synagogues start with membership. Someone calls and right away they’re diving into, “˜Do you want to join?’” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, who was installed last June as the new president of the Union for ReformContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews You did it again! We always knew you, our dear reader, had good taste — why else would you choose JTNews as having the best Jewish website? — but we didn’t know you had great taste! Below you’ll find results from our annual Best ofContinue Reading
By , JTNews Correspondent (JTA)—The Jewish service group Repair the World has named David Eisner its new CEO and president. “Repair the World is a young organization with a limitless potential to help others and to have a profound impact on Jewish volunteerism and service in the United States,”Continue Reading
By Megan Managan, other Just over six years ago, the Schiller family’s lives changed forever. Mike Schiller was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a diagnosis that has affected the entire family, including Mike’s brother, David Schiller. Mike, who has since become very active with the National MS Society, participates in theContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews It’s Sunday morning at Temple Beth Am in Seattle, and instead of sleeping, watching TV, or doing whatever else teenagers tend to do on Sunday mornings, five high school students are enthusiastically strumming guitar and singing “Lecha Dodi” to a room full ofContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews With a new governor in office and a reconstituted Senate leadership, the legislative session that begins Monday has the state wondering what solutions will be proposed for a $900 million revenue shortfall and what might be sacrificed to get the budget balanced. “We’re going toContinue Reading
By Lior Hemmat, Special to JTNews My sister Zohar and I recently celebrated our B’nai Mitzvah three months apart — my sister turned 12 in September and I turned 13 in December. Some people might find it unusual that we are only nine months apart in age — we wereContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Robin Poppsinger was due to give birth New Year’s Eve. Lo and behold, as the fireworks began exploding into the air Monday night, her labor picked up. Robin, her husband Cole, and the doula made their way to Swedish Ballard, and at 5:51Continue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Make some Mathemagic Monday, January 14, 7—8:30 p.m. Named “America’s best math whiz” by Reader’s Digest, Harvey Mudd professor Art Benjamin turns math into magic. In this dynamic, high-energy performance, Benjamin will demonstrate and explain his secrets for performing mental calculations faster thanContinue Reading
By Gigi Yellen-Kohn , JTNews Correspondent Inspired by her mother’s and grandmother’s legacies, world-renowned pianist and recording artist Mona Golabek combines timeless music and powerful storytelling in “The Pianist of Willesden Lane.” Golabek brings a special edition of this critically acclaimed one-woman show to Connections 2013, the Jewish Federation ofContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Cecelia Danuweli is a commanding presence. Wearing an elegant African dress and gold scarf, long black braids exploding from the top of her head, she walks with an air of royalty. It’s a fitting entrance for a woman who helped liberate Liberia fromContinue Reading
By Masada Siegel , Special to JTNews A few years ago at her confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was being grilled by Senator Lindsey Graham about the Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound airliner. “Where were you on Christmas Day?” Graham asked, setting up his line ofContinue Reading
