By Emily Moore, JTNews Correspondent Jews love fish. They have always loved and honored the place fish has held in the culture. Many old, beloved Jewish recipes have become fixtures in the diets of the general population. Did you know that Jews were largely responsible for the advent of fishContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Film critic and talk-radio host Michael Medved joined his wife and co-author Diane for a recent pubic appearance in Bellevue. The couple, touting their most recent book, Saving Childhood, spent more than an hour talking about their contention that since the 1960s, modern American societyContinue Reading
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By Louis Pasek, Special to JTNews Thirty-four teens from the Stroum Jewish Community Center will be representing Washington State in this year’s Maccabi Games. These young athletes will compete in six different sporting events: girls’ volleyball, boys’ basketball, boys’ soccer, swimming, dancing, and tennis. The boys’ basketball team (ages 15-16)Continue Reading
By Louis Pasek, Special to JTNews The talk, called “Reporting Back From Palestine,” occurred June 25 at a small gathering place near Seattle Center. Approximately 25 attendees, mostly between the ages of 30 and 55, sat in a small conference room. Various literature had been set out, including a seriesContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent The rabbinical student knows all about surviving domestic violence. So does the housewife, who, for the first time, stood in front of a crowd of more than 450 to tell her story about how she escaped her abusive marriage. These testimonials launched a three-day symposiumContinue Reading
By Rita Weinstein, JTNews Correspondent Congressman and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) made several stops in Seattle July 18 and 19 to share his progressive message. The Jewish Transcript spoke with him as he toured Tent City when it was housed in the parking lot of Temple Beth Am. Transcript:Continue Reading
By Naomi Pfefferman, other LOS ANGELES — “I’m a ‘Marx Brothers anarchist,’” filmmaker Jordan Susman said. “It’s the sense of having a flower squirt water into the eyes of authority.” The tone pervades his debut feature, The Anarchist Cookbook, which revolves around a “latter-day Marx brother,” Susman said. Puck GoldContinue Reading
By Victor Wishna, Special to JTNews Most Bar Mitzvah boys have to settle for fountain pens and savings bonds. When Adam Levy became a man at 13, however, he walked away with a new Gibson ES-335, still considered one of the finest electric guitars ever made. Twenty-three years later, theContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent For as long as people have been able to communicate, there have been storytellers. Language may not have been invented for the telling of tales around the primordial campfires, but that has surely been one of its most enduring uses. Even today, when we haveContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent In 1945, almost 60 years ago, Jewish nurse Edith Heinemann Harris met Maxine Haynes, the first African American nurse to be hired at Providence (now Swedish) Medical Center in Seattle. “She looked to me so beautiful and she was all alone,” said Harris about Haynes.Continue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Marsha Rivkin died from ovarian cancer in 1993. Marsha’s family — husband Saul Rivkin and her five daughters — who wanted to commemorate her as well as raise awareness and money for ovarian cancer treatment and prevention, founded the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian CancerContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As a new Certified Senior Advisor, Janis Blauer-Chima has learned about what seniors go through as they get older. “I have more of an appreciation than I used to about different cultures,” she says. “I’ve learned a lot just about the difference between people.” AContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The midday sun warmed the children by the pond while dancers danced and musicians played on the nearby hillside. Others who wore rainbow-colored prayer shawls and woven multi-hued yarmulkes beat ethnic drums in drum circles, all as a way to spend a hot summer weekContinue Reading
By Britten Schear, Special to JTNews “I know these are onions because it says so on the sign,” Rachel Bravmann-Bevens tells me as we walk through the University of Washington’s Urban Horticulture garden, “but for a lot of this stuff, you’d have to ask the kids what it is.” TheContinue Reading
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By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent After more than two years of suspense, 18 months of construction and $127 million, Seattle’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall opened to enthusiastic crowds. Excited patrons paid $300–$500 a ticket to attend the opening-night celebration on June 28, “The Curtain Rises.” The gala offered one hourContinue Reading
By Deborah Ashin, JTNews Correspondent Three ordinary bowls, one enamel, two aluminum. To see them on a shelf or in someone’s attic, they would be unremarkable. But each bowl is a silent witness to history, telling the powerful story about the Holocaust survivor who used it. On display at Seattle’sContinue Reading
By Emily Moore, JTNews Correspondent How do you begin to explore a cuisine whose geographic area is at least a dozen times the size of France, includes most of Italy, all of Spain and Morocco, much of Portugal, Tunisia, Algeria and Greece, the entirety of Iraq and Iran, most ofContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent With the exception of the modern, lightweight tents, and the setting up of camp in a parking lot, and the surrounding area looking nothing like the sands of the Sinai Peninsula, Seattle’s self-contained moveable homeless community known as Tent City could almost be a sceneContinue Reading
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