By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent In a season marked by war, the upcoming concert by Music of Remembrance carries special importance. On Sunday, April 27, MOR commemorates Yom HaShoah with “An Unsilenced Music.” The concert features the world premiere of “Fathers” by Lori Laitman, a song cycle based on poemsContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When the eighth grade students at Jewish Day School discussed class projects, they decided upon one that includes the entire community. Several ideas were tossed around, but they settled upon the idea of having their fellow students express their thoughts on Jewish people who haveContinue Reading
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By David Klinghoffer, other MERCER ISLAND (JTA) — As I got to work clearing the house of leaven and preparing for seders, I couldn’t help noticing that the war in Iraq has coincided with the weeks leading up to Passover. The coincidence is eerily appropriate. Jewish tradition teaches that PassoverContinue Reading
By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Ah, the signs of spring! The flowers and the bees, the birds in the trees — and Blintzapalooza at Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia. According to organizer Linda Blustein, this year’s festivities on March 30th had hungry blintz lovers lined up around the block. TheContinue Reading
By Deborah Ashin, JTNews Correspondent Private art lessons are generally not an option for the children at Dunlap Elementary School. Almost 85 percent are on the state’s free and reduced lunch program, and the school, located in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, doesn’t even have a PTA. That’s whereContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When 15-year-old Israeli girl Adi Houja was injured in a suicide bombing in 2001, she thought she was going to die. The nuts and bolts that were soaked in rat poison and packed into the bomb severely injured her legs. Today she is alive, thoughContinue Reading
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent The unorthodox nature of electoral politics in Israel produced unusual results, netting a predictably unpredictable conclusion, according to Judy Lash Balint, a freelance writer from Seattle currently living in Jerusalem. A freelance writer, Balint contributes articles to theMatzav.com, an unsponsored, non-political Web site that sinceContinue Reading
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent About two dozen volunteer tutors, who are helping to make sure that “no child is left behind,” greeted Seattle Schools Superintendent Joseph Olchefske at an informal reception, March 29. The tutors are all part of the “Study Buddy” program, sponsored by the Jewish Federation ofContinue Reading
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent This is the first in a two-part series about domestic violence in Seattle’s Jewish community. This piece discusses the stigma surrounding domestic violence in our community, while the following piece will show resources and ways of eliminating violence from relationships. Deborah DeDonaldo tells her storyContinue Reading
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By Susan Beardsley, other In one of the more intriguing chapters of the Holocaust, nearly 20,000 Jews fled Europe to the safety of the exotic city of Shanghai. Dana Janklowicz-Mann was inspired by her father’s memories to document the history of the Shanghai Ghetto. Janklowicz-Mann and her partner Amir MannContinue Reading
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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent In 1978, El Al flight attendant Yulie Cohen Gerstel was nearly killed in a terrorist attack on the jet she had just flown into London. More than two decades later, as a wife and mother, she became involved in an effort to gain parole forContinue Reading
By Robert Shay, other I recently received an e-mail asking me if a certain series of older Jewish children’s videos were available on DVD, because as the sender wrote , “…I no long own a VCR.” I counseled the e-mailer that the $50 to $100 investment in a new VCRContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent The debut of Seattle Jewish Theatre at the Stroum Jewish Community Center comes April 3. That evening, the new company will feature Beau Jest, a popular play that focuses on interfaith marriage. The theatre company chose Beau Jest, a comedy written in 1989 by JewishContinue Reading
By Andrew Tarica, Special to JTNews Part 1 of Star of the Jungle appeared in the March 7, 2003 edition of the Jewish Transcript. The motorcarro driver dropped me off early Sunday morning down a ramshackle dirt road, and I wondered if I was at the right place. I sawContinue Reading
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