By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Using energetic brushstrokes, strong primary colors and titles like, “Grinding Down the Rail,” “Go with it, Dude!’” and “Digital Dig,” in the new art style he calls, “Dynaism,” 84-year-old Mercer Island resident Phil Flash hopes to capture the vibrant, active spirit of today’s dynamic timesContinue Reading
By Rabbi Doug Donelizko Slotnick, Special to JTNews One of the most delightful aspects of being Jewish is the frequent realization that what we take for granted needs to be explored and examined. So it is when we explore our family histories. The last names — surnames — we bearContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Two years ago, before the attacks of Sept. 11, Andrea Cohen had not been a very public person. That day, however, when two planes downed the World Trade Center towers in New York, another took out a chunk of the Pentagon, and a fourth crashedContinue Reading
By Deborah Ashin, JTNews Correspondent “Hello, Mrs. Rabbi Singer. Is Mr. Rabbi there?” When Rabbi Beth Singer’s husband Jonathan was a youth rabbi in New York, she would often get calls from kids who didn’t quite know how to address the rabbinic couple. Eighteen years ago, the Singers, now atContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent For the first time, the University of Washington will be offering a credit course in modern Hebrew, open to the general public. The UW Extension, in a partnership with the Jewish Studies program and Near Eastern Studies, will begin night classes for the community asContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Early this summer, the School of Jewish Communal Service at the Hebrew Union College asked Kim Isaacs to nominate her choice for Alumni of the Year. She didn’t have to think twice about who deserved the award: Seattle’s own Rabbi Dan Bridge. “He’s just beenContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent In the largest, most strategic campaign to date in its 30-year history, the Jews for Jesus, made a two-week, whirlwind tour through the Puget Sound, leaving pamphlets, tracts and targeted home mailings in its wake. This not-for-profit organization, dedicated to preaching Christianity to Jews proclaimingContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Inspector Stanley Parker of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has just shared a drink at the Craggy Rock Saloon with his colleague, Sheriff Hap Hazard, when shots ring out, and — with a considerable flourish — the local lawman falls dead. “That shot came fromContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent As athletes, Seattle’s contingent at the annual Jewish Community Center Maccabi Games in St. Louis did very well, bringing back medals in all colors. However, Matt Grogan, assistant director of the Stroum JCC and a longtime fan of everything Maccabi, said the gold should goContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Like many other day camps, kids spend their days making art and music. At Seattle’s Middle East Peace Camp, however, some of the children had just arrived in the United States. Others were first-generation Arab-Americans or Palestinian-Americans. Some were Jewish. But for five summer daysContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Iyar Dalva wrote a verse of the Beatles’ “Yesterday” in Hebrew. He then performed the entire song, his fingers strumming on his guitar, in front of the entire Camp Solomon Schechter population at its annual talent show. This Israeli teenager — and the seven othersContinue Reading
By Louis Wald , Special to JTNews Since I was a child, I had had the wish to travel to Poland with my parents, and see their native country with them firsthand. I wanted to know what their life was like, what their homes looked like, where they played asContinue Reading
By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent For Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, the High Holidays will be extra special this fall: after going for a year without one, Washington State’s only Reconstructionist congregation again has a full-time rabbi. Rabbi Seth Goldstein, 30, who assumed the pulpit on July 1, has beenContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent When late-night radio talk show host Erin Hart was offered the chance to visit Israel, she jumped at the chance. “I’ve always wanted to go to Israel, since I was a child,” she said. Hart, whose weekend show on KIRO-AM radio is considered to beContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “All of my work is kind of a self-analysis — a search for my Jewishness,” says artist and Seattle native Leonard Piha. Piha grew up in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood and attended Congregation Ezra Bessaroth. Now, at age 49, he lives in Athens, Ga., aContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent This list was compiled with the help of Don Hood and Graham Shutt, booksellers and well-read intellectuals at the University Village Barnes & Noble bookstore: The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis Leon R. Kass (Free Press, $35.00) Lauded as an impressive work based on yearsContinue Reading
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent A number of recently published children’s books provide fun for kids and parents as they learn about Jewish holidays and prayers. Prolific local author Joan Holub, who has authored a number of books on Jewish and non-Jewish holidays, and many other subjects, has written ApplesContinue Reading
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By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent It is the greatest story every told, and there’s always a new angle or twist to explore. In The Miracles of Exodus, (HarperSanFrancisco, hardcover, $24.95), British physicist Colin J. Humphreys offers scientific detective work to explain the mysteries and phenomena of the Exodus. Humphreys describesContinue Reading
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