By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent For those families that give gifts on Hanukkah, eight nights of holiday can be both a good and a bad thing. While there is always the chance for a potential gold mine all eight nights, the reality is far more sad. While I don’t rememberContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Lee Gutkind, editor and founder of the journal Creative Nonfiction, will visit Seattle this December to discuss his new memoir Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather, a book that reconnected him to the Jewish culture he was raised in on the East Coast. “It wasContinue Reading
By Thomas “Toivy” Blatt, Special to JTNews On October 14, a small group of Holocaust survivors celebrated the 60th anniversary of an unusual episode of the Second World War. Until the mid-1980s, this event was nearly forgotten by all but those directly involved, and it remains little known today. ItsContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Mercer Island’s Congregation Herzl-Ner Tamid buzzed with excitement on Nov. 16 as crowds flocked in to see the art and Judaica many Israeli artists came to town to sell. The event, Shop Israel in Seattle, attracted approximately 2,500 people from around the community, according toContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Meira Shupak believes strongly in building bridges within Seattle’s Jewish community. “Sometimes there are things very specific to Orthodox lifestyle that are not easily understood,” she said. “It’s hard not to have your own judgment about something, if you’re secular, from the outside.” That isContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent The window for a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is quickly closing. That, and a bit of hearty optimism for some kind of resolution to the intifada that has gripped the Middle East were what approximately 700 left-leaning individuals came away with from B’ritContinue Reading
By Joshua Rosenstein, Special to JTNews Bella Israel was born in Istanbul. The Seattle resident, who attends Temple De Hirsch Sinai, immigrated to the United States 45 years ago while many of her relatives remained in Turkey. Her nephew was wounded in one of the Turkey synagogue attacks on Nov.Continue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As a businessman by day and an internationally renowned tenor soloist by night, Melvyn Poll is a busy man. Poll was born in Seattle into a musical family, and has been singing virtually all of his life. His mother was a violinist and soprano andContinue Reading
By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Klezmer Concertos and Encores David Krakauer, clarinet; Scott Goff, flute; Alberto Mizrachi, tenor; other soloists; Barcelona Symphony; Berlin Radio Symphony; Seattle Symphony; Gerard Schwarz, conductor; www.milkenarchive.org or www.naxos.com. Like Bartok in Hungary, Dvorak in Bohemia, and Tchaikovsky in Russia, the composers on this disc haveContinue Reading
By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent As this paper goes to press, Seattle Symphony music director Gerard Schwarz has just returned from his biggest Jewish conducting assignment ever. As part of a weeklong New York conference, “Only in America: Jewish Music in a Land of Freedom,” Schwarz joined an impressive arrayContinue Reading
By Sharon Finegold, Special to JTNews Asia: my maiden name. There it was, March 2001, on a sidewalk sign adjacent to my hotel in Jerusalem. Asia: usually found as a prefix to “laundry,” bean sprouts, or “imports.” But here in Jerusalem it invited me into “Asia Gallery: the Private CollectionContinue Reading
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By Emily Moore, JTNews Correspondent One of my favorite Jewish culinary legends and cookbook authors is Jennie Grossinger, kitchen maven in the 1940s and ‘50s at the famous Grossinger’s Catskill Mountains resort. She begins the section on soups in her classic cookbook, The Art of Jewish Cooking, with the simpleContinue Reading
By Chris Leppek, other DENVER — The last weekend in October for the members of Ahavath Beth Israel, Boise’s Reform-Conservative congregation — and for the citizens Boise in general — was a genuinely moving experience. Literally. Well after the conclusion of Sabbath, at around 1 a.m. on Sun., Oct. 26,Continue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Yossi Amrani is a hopeful man. “I’m hopeful for one reason,” said the Israeli Consul General for the Northwest United States. “We need to have hope, and we can’t live without hope.” Amrani spoke to an audience of well over 100 at a town hallContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent During voting season, Washington voters are often asked to choose the people in black robes that sit in judgment in the state’s courts. While we might wish to pick judges with the wisdom of Solomon, most people have little to guide them other than aContinue Reading
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Look up the word “erudite” in any dictionary published since the mid-1970s and there might be a picture of William Safire, one of the New York Times’ longest running and most respected political columnists. As the author of the Times magazine’s weekly “On Language” column,Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Not unlike her own watershed moment with her father, the women in Letty Cottin Pogrebin’s novel Three Daughters (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, October 2002, $25.00), daughters of a prominent conservative rabbi have to reconcile their own life’s disappointments with their father. Pogrebin will be onContinue Reading
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