By Alice Kaderlan, Special to JTNews They came from all over the state of Washington and were sent all over the world. They were soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who fought in every American conflict since World War II, and at a Washington State Jewish Historical Society event on Dec.Continue Reading
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Rather than fill the gym with activities for an afternoon affair, the Stroum Jewish Community Center this year has moved its annual community-wide Hanukkah celebration to Saturday night and turned it into a real party. “We decided to change it up,” says Heidi Turner, theContinue Reading
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews We’ll start with stuff for families. The Seattle Jewish Chorale is doing it second-night style with a concert at Temple B’nai Torah. “It’s Hanukkah songs, but not necessarily all the Hanukkah songs that everybody knows,” says Michele Yanow, the chorale’s executive director, of “Light theContinue Reading
By Curt Leviant and Erika Pfeifer Leviant, Special to JTNews Paris, the city of lights, also brims with the bright light of Jewry, with which it has been associated for centuries. With the exception of the period of expulsion in 1395 (no Jews were in Paris in the 15th andContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews “Do not say ‘When I free myself of my concerns, I will study,’ for perhaps you will never free yourself.” So go the Pirke Avot, or the Sayings of the Fathers, the Mishnaic collection of Jewish, ethical maxims from the turn of theContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews Rabbi Morton and his wife Leya Moskowitz knew about the gala in their honor. They knew they’d be called onstage during the event to speak. The longtime educators even knew about the trip to Hawaii a Seattle Hebrew Academy family had donated in honorContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent In May 2011, one of the foremost materials scientists in the world, Seattleite Dr. John Werner Cahn, received a letter, then a call, and finally a visit from five members of Japan’s Inamori Foundation, who informed him after a five-hour interview that he wouldContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When a bill that legalizes same-sex marriage gets presented before legislators early next year, many of Washington State’s most prominent Jewish organizations will be actively supporting it. The support, many say, is based on civil rights, human rights, and that it’s the right thing toContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Sometimes the hardest thing people can do is ask for help. But help is exactly what a program just launched through Jewish Family Service is offering. “The program is supposed to surround family members who are caring for a loved one with an illness orContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Can foreign aid really help Africa? How can the U.S. move toward a just domestic agenda? And why are these Jewish questions? Armed with an innovative vision and a grant from the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies project under the Association for Jewish Studies,Continue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews If there’s anything that Itamar Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch, can say has changed over the past three to four years, it’s the large-scale growth of the intense rhetoric to delegitimize Israel and glorify terrorists. What he’s hearing, he said, is similar toContinue Reading
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews “When I think about Israel,” said Irit Zviely, “I don’t think, generally speaking, there is any place the LGBT community cannot live.” Zviely is the director of Hoshen, Israel’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender information and education center. Zviely and another representative, DaledContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews ‘Twas the morning of tastings, and among cups of coffee, JTNews was abuzz with foods fresh, sweet and salty. The boxes of crackers were set out with care, and the aroma of bacon flowed through the air. Wait, what? At this year’s kosherContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick and Emily K. Alhadeff, Editor, JTNews In the past two weeks, two organizations strongly critical of Israel have decided to use the courts to press their issues. On November 1, members of the Olympia Food Co-op filed a defendants’ special motion to strike the lawsuit brought againstContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews While their competitors spend the weekend in Yakima, the girls’ volleyball team for Northwest Yeshiva High School will be staying home for the state championships. Though they placed fourth in their division, which qualified them to go to state, the tournament is being held thisContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Of five young educators recognized nationally by the Covenant Foundation, two hail from Seattle. Robert Beiser, the campus/Jconnect director for the Repair the World social justice organization, based at Hillel at the University of Washington, and Gilah Kletenik, who grew up in Seattle and nowContinue Reading
