By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Temple De Hirsch Sinai took a programming risk with Rosh Hashanah this year and it paid off — big time. On the second night of 5775, nearly 100 Jews in their 20s and 30s showed up at Sole Repair Shop, an event space inContinue Reading
By Justin Coskey, Special to the Jewish Sound I recently had the opportunity to interview Daniel Cohen, an active young adult in the Jewish community of greater Seattle, on his most recent endeavor, The Shabbos Project. While the Shabbos Project is an international organization and event, Daniel came up withContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Unites States needs to play hardball. When it engages in talks with Iran over its uranium enrichment program during the U.N.’s General Assembly meeting, which commences Thursday, it must keep air strikes on the table. So writes Michael Singh, the Washington Institute’s managingContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound This past year, the Samis Foundation allocated over $4 million to local Jewish education and camps, disaster relief, Jewish life, as well as social services and war relief in Israel. Though Samis’s work is evident across the community, these figures areContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Despite having to leave its building in Seattle’s Maple Leaf neighborhood after a six-year, post-recession, uphill financial struggle to buy it, the Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder has found a new site and is now open and bustling. Nearly 80 students from preschool through 8thContinue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent Every mother of a Jewish teenager will likely agree that leadership is a natural ability within most young people. And a new program that sends high school students to live in Israel for two months has been created to cultivate that inherent aptitude. The program thatContinue Reading
By David Chivo, Special to The Jewish Sound The media is awash these days with coverage about the rise of anti-Semitism around the world. If we are to respond, we first need to understand that this situation is not new phenomenon, but the rehashing of the same old story. Myth #1:Continue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Orthodox rabbis are widely known for their distinctive black suits and black Borsalino hats. But on September 10, University of Washington Chabad rabbi Elie Estrin wore a different kind uniform: The navy blue suit and cap of the United States AirContinue Reading
By Dikla Tuchman, Jewish Sound Correspondent On Sunday, August 31, South Seattle’s newly formed Eruv Cooperative hosted SPARK, an outdoor Jewish music festival in Seward Park. Hundreds of community members and Jewish music appreciators piled into Seward Park Amphitheater to enjoy artists like singer-songwriter Ari Lesser, local Seattle-based recording artistContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound This fall the Seattle Hebrew Academy welcomes Rabbi Daniel Loew to its faculty as principal, a new position created to bridge the school’s Judaic and general studies. Loew comes to the Modern Orthodox, dual-curriculum, early childhood-8th grade day school from theContinue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent The recently named regional director of the American Jewish Committee in Seattle will need cooperation from the Chamber of Commerce and the tourism bureau to implement the changes she hopes to bring to the advocacy organization. Texas native Lila Pinksfeld took on the leadershipContinue Reading
Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound You might expect to see a line of motorcycles parked outside a dive bar, but lined up outside a Jewish assisted living facility — you might do a double take. That was the scene on the sunny Sunday morning of August 24,Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Updated August 29, 2014 Chanting “Long live Palestine” and “Free, Free, Palestine” underscored by a mobile sound system playing a booming pro-Palestinian political mixtape, nearly 150 marchers came to Terminal 18 at the Spokane Street Fishing Area in Seattle Monday afternoon to stop longshoremen fromContinue Reading
By Jewish Sound staff Though protesters attempted to block workers from entering the Port of Tacoma on Saturday to unload a ship owned by Zim Integrated Shipping Services, an Israeli shipping company, workers entered through a different route and unloaded the ship without incident. The Tacoma News-Tribune reported that aboutContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound At the same time rockets were falling on Israel during the height of its devastating conflict with Hamas, the single biggest wildfire in Washington State’s history ripped through Eastern Washington, consuming some 550 square miles and traveling up to an acreContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound The vast difference between the deep green valley outside of Mt. Vernon and the dusty Jerusalem hills these two-dozen 12-year-olds call home was the first clue they had entered something potentially life-changing. For these kids, divided evenly among Jews, Muslims and Christians, theirContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant’s letter to President Obama and Congress to denounce “Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank” and to end “all U.S. government and military aid for Israel” was met with staunchContinue Reading
By Boris Kurbanov, Special to The Jewish Sound Any time the word “music festival” is thrown around, people typically think of events like Sasquatch!, SXSW, or Bumbershoot. On August 31, Jewish music from around the world comes to Seattle for the city’s first-ever outdoor Jewish music festival, SPARK. Middle Eastern rock,Continue Reading
(JTA) — A white supremacist convicted of killing four people in three states — one because his name sounded Jewish — was sentenced to two life sentences for two of the murders. David “Joey” Pedersen, 34, was sentenced Aug. 4 in a federal court in Portland, Ore., for the murderContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent There’s a new leader for Friends of AKIM USA headquartered in New York City, whose experience in Israeli military intelligence and in business working with his many high level Arab contacts is bringing a fresh vision to the National Association for the Habilitation ofContinue Reading
