By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews The day before JTNews spoke with Yohanna Kinberg during the middle of Passover, she was at home making charoset cupcakes for one of her sons to take to his school’s bake sale. “I didn’t want him to feel left out,” she says. Such is lifeContinue Reading
By Emily Keeler Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews What’s Robin Leventhal, Seattle restaurateur and former “Top Chef” competitor, doing going to work for a community-based Jewish delicatessen on Mercer Island? The first answer that comes to her mind: Kismet. “It’s been a magical process,” Leventhal says. “I truly feel like thisContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Randy Neal, Christians United for Israel’s western regional coordinator, worries that the same story he tells at the close of many of the group’s meetings around the country will be a bore. But the group of supporters that filled Seattle Church in mid-April silenced toContinue Reading
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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Call it prostitution, sexual slavery, or human trafficking — whatever the term, it must end, said Urmi Basu, the director of the New Light Center in Kolkata, India, who asked 130 activists, health workers, and concerned citizens at Mercer Island’s Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation onContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Seven months after starting her new appointment, Hannah Rosenthal received a gift: Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas. “If Helen Thomas, coming out of the Jewish Heritage Festival at the White House, had just said, ‘Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,’ itContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Hannah Rosenthal, the U.S. Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism, says the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel’s policies in Gaza and the West Bank is a complete failure. “The problem with calling a boycott is, it had better work,” Rosenthal says. “Do you hearContinue Reading
By Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Special to JTNews In the fall, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society will tell the story of our state’s Jewish history through food with the publication Yesterday’s Mavens, Today’s Foodies: Traditions in Northwest Jewish Kitchens. This cookbook will be filled with recipes from Jewish grandmothers —Continue Reading
By Eileen Goltz, Special to JTNews At some point during Passover preparations we’ve all tried to convert a mainstream recipe into one appropriate for Pesach, only to discover that we don’t have a clue as to what to substitute for a chametz ingredient. This panic moment is why I startedContinue Reading
By Julia Stein, Special to JTNews I swept the house clean through nine plagues, swept when Moses turned the river into blood, swatted at frogs all day in the Egyptians’ kitchen, chased frogs in the bedrooms, whacked at them on the beds, jumped after frogs in the kitchen. Next IContinue Reading
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By Ozzie Nogg , Special to JTNews Food blogger Debby Koenig (Words to Eat By) confesses that though she hates Passover with its ‘stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth matzoh, crumbs-all-over-your-shirtfront matzoh, halt-all-intestinal-activity matzoh,’ she considers the ‘only saving grace of this cardboardy so-called food is that it’s the main ingredient in matzoh brei.’ FriedContinue Reading
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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Some might say that The Summit At First Hill has been keeping one of its most valuable assets a secret. Once a month, a small but happy group of restaurant-goers in Seattle’s Jewish community has been savoring the gourmet dining experience provided by The Summit’sContinue Reading
By Kim Goldov , Special to JTNews March 29, 2010 Dear Hanah, This year marks the first time in your 19 years of life that you are missing from our seder table. Instead, you are celebrating with your fellow students at Lewis & Clark. You there, and we here, willContinue Reading
By Suzanne Kurtz , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — Of all the wedding presents Marilyn Fine received 36 years ago, the delicate English bone-china Passover seder plate is still her most cherished gift. “I wish I could display it all year round,” says Fine, 59, a Jewish educatorContinue Reading
By Tim Klass, JTNews Correspondent The newest member of Washington State’s congressional delegation professes strong support for U.S. aid to Israel, but is undecided about two-state-solution funding for the Palestinians. In an interview with JTNews, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R–3rd District), also said she believes her views are common amongContinue Reading
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