By Janis Siegel , JTNews Correspondent Spencer Freedman, 22, is older than most of the nearly 100 teen-aged volunteers that work in the Friendship Circle of Washington’s bi-weekly program for special needs-children, but he’s exactly the kind of friend that the kids who go there love to be around. Plus,Continue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff , Assistant Editor, JTNews Maybe you’ve felt guilty after eating through too many of those yellow mesh bags of chocolate gold coins during Hanukkah. Now here’s something else to feel guilty about: Your chocolate gelt might have child slavery at its source. According to the U.S.Continue Reading
By , JTA World News Service NEW YORK (JTA)—A Washington State food co-op that is boycotting Israeli products has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by pro-Israel activist members. The motion, filed Wednesday in state Superior Court in Thurston County, asserts that the lawsuit filed in September byContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Ami Ayalon, who in his 66 years has been an Israeli naval commander, head of the Shin Bet security services, and a Knesset member, joined with Palestinian professor Sari Nusseibeh eight years ago to promote a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite both sides’Continue Reading
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By , Special to JTNews On November 6, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society will hold its annual gala with the launch party for its new cookbook, Yesterday’s Mavens, Today’s Foodies: Traditions in Northwest Jewish Kitchens. The event will include tastings of recipes included in the book as well asContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Win or lose, 35-year-old Shoreline resident Jesse Salomon will be back at his job working as a public defender in dispute resolution courts in the Seattle Municipal Court. But the self-described progressive Democrat is feeling pretty good about his bid for the Shoreline City Council,Continue Reading
By Charlotte Anthony, Special to JTNews Two sukkah tents were set up at the Occupy Seattle movement in Westlake this week and 10 protestors were arrested trying to protect the first tent. Dakota Williams, a Jewish homeless veteran, built the first sukkah on Thursday night to celebrate the holiday whileContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews The JTNews searched desperately to find its first baby of 5772. Was it possible that no Jewish babies were born between Rosh Hashanah and press time? Were the angels in heaven on strike? Lo and behold, in the eleventh hour one came through.Continue Reading
By Masada Siegel, Special to JTNews A look of horror crossed my mom’s face. We stared at the petite woman standing in the pouring rain raising her hands over her head and making menacing faces. “If you see a bear, put your hands over your head and start saying, ‘Bear,Continue Reading
By Edmon J. Rodman, JTA World News Service LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Each Sukkot we read in Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, that there “is a time to tear down, and a time to build up.” For my sukkah it was time for both. Last year the legs of my sukkah were bowedContinue Reading
By , JTNews Correspondent Robert Vasen should have turned 25 this year. But at the age of 20, Rob was killed by a drunk driver. This lifelong athlete and Temple B’nai Torah member had overcome a life-threatening staph infection that nearly robbed him of his ability to take the field,Continue Reading
By , JTNews Correspondent This past June, Houston parents Joshua and Robin Berry, on their return from a family vacation, were killed in a head-on collision. Their three children, Peter, 9, Aaron, 8, and Willa, 6, survived the crash, but the two boys were paralyzed. The Berrys were active inContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews You’re all here because you want to say “no” to hate, said Hilary Bernstein, community director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Pacific Northwest regional office. But “what are you going to do about it? What are you willing to do to make our communityContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Attorney Daniel Swedlow has a client from Ethiopia seeking asylum in the U.S. “When gunfire started erupting he just ran, and he ran and ran and ran and wound up going through something like 17 different countries,” Swedlow said. “All of his being beaten, detainedContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews In deciding to reject advertisements critical of Israel that had been scheduled to run on King County Metro buses late last year, a federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of the county, ruling it had acted appropriately. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones saidContinue Reading
By Eric Nusbaum, JTNews Correspondent The Stroum Jewish Community Center will be hosting overnight guests Friday — and no, that doesn’t mean it’s launching a new initiative to become a hotel. The guests will be the fathers, daughters, and sons of the SJCC’s J Explorers participating in the program’s secondContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Two local rabbis are taking the lead from an Israeli leadership think tank and challenging Seattle-area Jews — and Jews worldwide — to re-imagine a more Jewish-values based Israel going into the future. The Jewish Day School’s assistant head of school Rabbi Stuart Light andContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent After more than a year and several requests to repeat the process, lawyers for five members of the Olympia Food Co-op filed a lawsuit in Thurston County Superior Court on Sept. 2, alleging that 16 individual co-op board members willfully violated the co-op’s boycott policies.Continue Reading
