By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Government censorship threatens a Jewish theater troupe’s new show in the Washington State premiere of Ernest Joselovitz’s play-within-a-play, Vilna’s Got a Golem at West Seattle’s ArtsWest from Jan. 20-Feb. 7. Upon presenting their new Yiddish play in the Lithuanian town of Vilna in 1899, theContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent What did the chicken say as she crossed the road? What else? Next year, in Jerusalem. That is (an admittedly bad) Jewish joke. Jews have been using humor, like nearly everything else at hand, to cement the community together and hold fast to a commonContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Maybe it was the Thai food, or perhaps the baby knew what was at stake. Either way, Ezra Asher Leyton Mason wins the prize for the very first baby of the New Year. Little Ezra, at just a week old, has already won the heartsContinue Reading
By Rabbi Moshe Kletenik, Special to JTNews My wife Rivy and I were among some 200 guests invited to the White House Hanukkah Reception on Monday, December 22, 2003. I was also part of a group of 16 Jewish leaders — among them seven rabbis — representing the different movementsContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent The snowstorm that snarled the region on Tuesday did not give any relief to the area’s Jewish agencies. Early morning phone calls, televisions blaring school closures, and empty parking lots at synagogues and other organizations took precedence over normal business activity for the day. OnContinue Reading
By Emily Moore, JTNews Correspondent How many years have Jews from all over the globe created luscious Hanukkah treats, always accented with oil or fried to commemorate the Maccabean miracle of eight days of oil burning in the Temple? Not just during 21 decades — which might seem conceivable —Continue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent In order to accommodate to their growing needs and attract more members, some Seattle Jewish youth groups are adopting new programs and hiring new employees. Young Judaea Young Judaea, a peer-led Zionist youth movement, reopened its Seattle office in September and hired Mindy Katz toContinue Reading
By Melissa Marlowe, Special to JTNews Upon his 2001 graduation from Yale University, Matthew Kerner moved to Seattle to pursue a career at Microsoft. At the time, he had high expectations. “My thoughts were Microsoft will create a life that’s professionally challenging and financially secure,” he says. “I did notContinue Reading
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent The Internet has come to the aid of World War II-era Holocaust victims from Hungary whose possessions were stolen from them twice: first by the Nazis and then by the liberating American army. Shortly before Thanksgiving, the Seattle law firm of Hagens Berman, which filedContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Norm Chapman has a plan. For however long it takes, he will send books to Israel to help children become proficient in English. He has already gotten started. In the past year, Chapman has sent more than 6,000 books, mostly to the Kiryat Malachi andContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When close to 5,000 attendees, encompassing four generations, visited Washington, D.C. for the “Tribute to Holocaust Survivors: A Reunion of a Special Family,” in November, Seattle dermatologist Dr. Anna Ragaz joined them. The event marked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 10th anniversary, and honored HolocaustContinue Reading
By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent This season, we witness a musical event unprecedented in the history of Jewish life and the recording arts. The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music has released the first of 50 planned CDs representing composers, performers, periods and genres, crossing the spectrum of both religiousContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Since 1980, the spunky media psychologist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, has been combining her sensitive mix of the maternal and the moral with her flair for articulating sexually explicit information. “Dr. Ruth,” as she is known to her millions of fans around the world, pioneered psychosexualContinue Reading
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent It’s fortunate that Classic-KING-FM’s new program director, Bob Goldfarb, has been a frequent visitor to Seattle, otherwise he might have been put off by the storms that blasted through western Washington last month. “It’s funny,” he said on the phone from his office, “when IContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Wayne Kaplan can see individual atoms. The associate professor in Haifa’s Technion University doesn’t have superpowers, however. What he does have is a microscope in his lab with high enough resolution to see those atoms, which allows him to research “the way atoms are arrangedContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Ariel Sharon wants a peace treaty for the sake of posterity. Dean will lose to Bush in 2004. Noah Webster was surprised by his wife. New York Times columnist William Safire offered these insights and predictions to about 350 close friends of the Jewish FederationContinue Reading
By Deborah Ashin , JTNews Correspondent Whether it’s seeking a way to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians or helping mothers understand how to connect with their babies, Yaffa Maritz believes people can find solutions if they will just listen to each other and reflect on their own values. TheContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Attorney General John Ashcroft has called it “baseless hysteria and simply ridiculous.” Despite his public remarks in September, booksellers and librarians across the country continue to question the constitutionality of the expanded powers granted to law enforcement in the USA PATRIOT Act. The American BooksellersContinue Reading
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