By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews It took some last minute scrambling and a lot of holding of breath, but the Federation’s campaign has closed ahead of last year’s results. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s annual community campaign ended April 30, and the final tally, according to the Federation’s ExecutiveContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews CorrespondentContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “Is this Jessica Davis?” asks actor Tony Curtis as he phones from Delaware for his interview. “Yes,” I reply. “I’ve been waiting to talk to you my whole life,” he quips. At 77, Curtis is still the same charming heartthrob many admired in his youngerContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When she was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 28, Rochelle Shoretz struggled to meet other young Jewish women with cancer. Two years prior to her diagnosis, Shoretz, an attorney and mother of two, had served as a law clerk to United States Supreme CourtContinue Reading
By Laurie Warshal Cohen, other An Interfaith community program for remembrance and reflection for Yom HaShoah (Day of Holocaust Remembrance) will feature Dr. Leon Bass, a former history teacher and principal at Benjamin Franklin High School in Philadelphia, Penn. Bass speaks nationwide about his experiences as an African-American soldier inContinue Reading
By Britten Schear, Special to JTNews The 10 folding tables in the Parish House of the Central Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill were piled high with traditional seder plates, baskets of Easter eggs, and bowls of tahini next to stacks of pita bread. In the steam-filled kitchen, Seattle Pacific UniversityContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews A resident at the Summit on First Hill independent living community recently had eye surgery. After the operation, she was required to use eye drops several times daily but was unable to administer them on her own. Six months ago that may have posed aContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent This is the second in a series on domestic violence in Seattle’s Jewish community. This article focuses on ways survivors of abuse have successfully gotten out of their situations. Deborah DeDonaldo is a survivor of domestic violence. Several years ago she was stuck and mostlyContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Eighty acres on Samish Hill in Bellingham have recently been purchased by Congregation Beth Israel. The congregation, Bellingham’s largest, had been searching for a new home for close to 10 years. The land was purchased in conjunction with the city of Bellingham from the WrightContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Reforming Palestinian culture and implementing a successful version of a “road map” to peace may take a while, according to one renowned professor. Offering an unflinching look into what is, by his account, a violent and antiquated Palestinian culture in the West Bank and Gaza,Continue Reading
By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Correspondent It is a religion of food, this chewing over of our history at the seder. If religion is a blend of faith, belief and knowing, then food plays a teasingly sporadic starring role, emerging here and there with a responsibility seemingly beyond its humbleContinue Reading
By Salty Pepperberg, Special to JTNews Matzoh Brei is not Matzoh Brei without the salt. The way it glistens with oil as it’s spooned from the pan, crystals reflecting in the kitchen’s morning light. When my tastebuds see matzoh, they think, “uh oh, cardboard again?” Yet when I soak thoseContinue Reading
By Dr. Honey McSugarfried, Special to JTNews Everyone knows that Matzoh Brei is eaten sweet. There are plenty of symbolic Jewish foods that are salty to remind us of tragedies such as the destruction of the temple or the disappearance of Kozmo.com, but this is not one of them. MatzohContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Nowhere in Africa Seattle premiere Germany, 2002, 141 min. German with subtitles Caroline Link, Director Based on the best-selling autobiographical novel by Stephanie Zweig, the Academy-Award winning Nowhere in Africa is narrated by Regina (Karoline Eckertz and Lea Kurka), a young girl whose German JewishContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNewsContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Joshua Slotnick has the military in his blood. “He is the product of soldiers,” said his father, Jeff Slotnick of Tacoma. “He is the product of soldiers,” said his father, Jeff Slotnick of Tacoma. Both of Joshua’s grandfathers served in the Korean War. His motherContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Amen France, 2002 Constantin Costa-Gavras, Director The great Japanese film director Akira Kurasawa once said that if he could explain what his movies were about in a few words, he would scrawl them on a placard instead of making the film. Constantin Costa-Gavras has neverContinue Reading
By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Doron Raphaely wanted to create a Seattle jazz and blues club that would not be about food or a fashionable location, but strictly about the music. So he named it About The Music. Tucked away near Boeing Field in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, in the historicContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent While the United States fights a war with Iraq, a play has opened that is particularly poignant. From the author of Driving Miss Daisy, Taproot Theatre presents Alfred Uhry’s comedy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo. The play is set in Atlanta in 1939, as theContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews After only three years on the job, Jewish Day School’s Rabbi Stuart Light, the Director of Judaic Studies, has received two awards for his school. The awards were given to Rabbi Light earlier this year at the Jewish Education Assembly, a conference of Conservative-movement educators.Continue Reading
Designed using Magazine Booster. Powered by WordPress. © 2026
