Janis Siegel JTNews correspondent Jordan Eareckson Murray, the Torah Day School teacher charged with seven counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes in his classroom in May 2013, will not see further jail time. Murray changed his innocent plea to guilty on two of those counts in Feb.Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s a name that may be well-suited to a great Italian painter or a powerful star of the Italian opera, but Dr. Federica Francesconi, the first-ever Jewish Studies chair at the College of Idaho seems destined to rock the academic world there when sheContinue Reading
Aberdeen native Oscar Rosenkrantz, who at age 13 was operating his father’s factory’s 35-ton crane, will be honored this Saturday as the Grays Harbor’s Polson Museum’s “Pioneer of the Year.” Read the story in The Daily World.Continue Reading
As Israel continues to lead the way in several biotech industries, a small, independent Herzliya-based video tech firm, Extreme Reality, has stumbled upon a possible solution to racial/ethnic profiling through a biometric profiling system that analyzes individuals’ movements. This automated movement analysis is based on what’s called a “skeletal map,” whichContinue Reading
Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Washington State Court of Appeals has thrown out a lawsuit filed in Sept. 2011 by five Olympia Food Co-op members against 16 of its current and former board members, upholding a lower court’s ruling that the board did not go beyond its authority orContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound It’s almost inevitable when we travel, or have visitors come to town, that they will ask the same question: How many Jews are there in Seattle? The answer, we’ll find out later this year, is trivial, if not trivia. As both the sponsorsContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s a college student’s dream scenario: Science class in a bar — with no tests. There’s no telling how many might have aced their finals if they could have attended class in the evening, listening to their professor with a finely crafted beer inContinue Reading
By Ty Alhadeff, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies It has been 40 years since Dr. Rina Benmayor visited Seattle to record romansas (ballads) among local residents of the Sephardic community. Dr. Benmayor followed in the footsteps of her mentors to capture the musical traditions that the Jews of Spain andContinue Reading
By Dikla Tuchman, Jewish Sound Correspondent “A good divorce is better sometimes than trying to share the same house,” Stanley Wulf told his audience Sunday’s presentation on behalf of J Street’s nationwide “2 Campaign” initiative. Wulf spoke at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island as part of theContinue Reading
We have undergone a complete redesign of our site that includes a new name and a new community calendar. Our online presence is now known as JewishSound.org. The site is faster, easier to navigate, and much easier to read. It’s also friendlier to smartphones and tablets, and includes calendar listingsContinue Reading
If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Passover this year, many of our local synagogues and organizations across the state will be hosting seders. Whether you’re looking for a specific neighborhood or region, or a seder that will feel comfortable for your own traditions, we’ve got them here. Continue Reading
Tori Gottlieb, Special to The Jewish Sound Thirty-six years ago, Beit Hatfutsot — literally, “House of the Diaspora” — opened in Tel Aviv. The museum, founded with the goal of being a central archive and memorial for Jewish life, assumed the responsibility of documenting Jewish communities all over the worldContinue Reading
Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Capping a year-long effort to repair and re-scribe its Torah while celebrating its 10th anniversary, Congregation Kol HaNeshamah will welcome Master Bible scholar and Brandeis University’s Dora Golding professor of biblical studies Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler as its scholar in residence during the last weekendContinue Reading
Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor This story complements the JTNews’ new podcast, “A Freilechen Seattle,” available here or at the iTunes store. Subscribe to The Transcript podcast on iTunes. Jeffrey Grossman’s retirement dream was to learn Yiddish. “As I got older, I can’t tell you what it was, it litContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews With seven months and two major events under his belt, Keith Dvorchik is beginning to feel like he’s getting his feet under him. “You forget what the beginning is really like,” said the CEO and president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, who joinedContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Richelle Willner Martin and Gabi Benisti hold the trophy from their victory at the national Jewish Unity Mentoring Program Challenge, a program of the NCSY youth group. The pair was one of four teams from around the country to travel to New York this weekContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, JTNews Who is a Jew? This oft-pondered, never sufficiently answered question was the topic of a recent three-part class led by Rabbi Oren Hayon for Jconnectors at Hillel at the University of Washington this winter. But this was no ordinary identity discussion group. HayonContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick , Editor, JTNews With another session in Olympia now behind us, JTNews asked the members of Washington State’s Jewish caucus to give us their insights into how things went for our state and our Jewish community. How did this session benefit our Jewish community? Sen. David FrocktContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Bernie Glassman is widely known within Zen Buddhist communities as one of its masters. However, he takes facets of his Jewish upbringing into his Zen practice, and among his inspirations are many Jewish teachers, including Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi, a leader in the Jewish RenewalContinue Reading
By , JNS.org We all recognize the taste of poppy seed or jam when we bite into hamantaschen on Purim. But given the right filling, or dough, the traditional pastry has a lot more to offer. Jamie Geller, founder of the Kosher Media Network and publisher of “Joy of KosherContinue Reading
