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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The stories of over a century of Pacific Northwest Jewish history have been told through the eyes of the women that lived them. Those stories have been documented through photographs and interviews with 30 Seattle-area Jewish women, and will be on display at the SouthContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Between cosmic rays and track stars, Northwest Yeshiva High School has a lot to be excited about. However, the year started off on a sad note with the death of popular student Ari Grashin. Since then, it has been a time of healing and growing.Continue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Several Israelis rolled into town last week to spread messages of goodwill and economic cooperation. Whether here as volunteers or as a part of their job, they carried the same message: we’re getting through the day, but we need your support. Inna Krotov, Jonathan AikhenbaumContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Now in its 48th year, Olympia’s Camp Solomon Schechter is embracing its traditions while making some changes. Over the past five years, new cabins, a lake front beach and a village for the junior counselor program have been added to the camp. This summer, twoContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Rep. Laura Ruderman joked about placing a “tip jar” near her desk asking for contributions to the state’s General Fund. As new legislative session in Olympia began, Ruderman (D–45th Dist.) said that social-service organizations must make cuts and not expect state assistance. “My bet,” RudermanContinue Reading

By Deborah Ashin, Special to JTNews Every night for almost 60 years, the man relived the same hellish nightmare: he is 16 years old and arrives in a cattle car at Auschwitz, where he helplessly watches his parents and grandparents march to the gas chamber. It’s a chilling irony thatContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Singer Yossi Hodakov will perform the first Chassidic concert of Jewish music to be presented at Chabad Lubavitch’s new synagogue, on Jan. 12 at 6 p.m. “It’ll be a great concert,” promises Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld. “There hasn’t been a type of concert like this inContinue Reading

By Nicole Gyulay, Special to JTNews “Without tradition, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof.” So said Tevye, the embattled protagonist from Fiddler on the Roof. Tradition has always been an integral part of Jewish culture, and now Fiddler on the Roof is part ofContinue Reading

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By Deborah Ashin, Special to JTNews It rivals Hollywood’s most fantastic archaeological adventures, featuring layers of buried ancient cities that contain mysteries and treasures from the past. Tel Dor, perched above the coastline about 30 miles from Tel Aviv, is one of the largest and most intriguing archaeological excavations inContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews     Max Rosencrantz Medin’s parents are excited about his birthdate: 01/02/03. Max, at barely a week old, probably doesn’t care so much about his sequentially numbered birthdate, but he couldn’t be happier about taking the crown of first Jewish baby of the new year.Continue Reading

By Arlene Plevin, Special to JTNews Observing Rosh Hashanah in Taipei, Taiwan reminded me of what I’d forgotten: all over the world, in places other than Baltimore, Tel Aviv, London, New York, and even Seattle, the Jewish people gather to observe and share. The flavor of a place, its customsContinue Reading

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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent After 47 years of defending and promoting human rights, religious freedom and inter-group relations, Washington State Supreme Court Justice Charles Z. Smith retired on Jan. 1. Anyone who knows Smith, the first minority and African-American justice to sit on the Court, knows this 75-year-old inspirationContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Seattle’s Northend neighborhoods have been taking on more of a Jewish flavor as the community has blossomed. Both the number of Jews living in the area and the scope of businesses and services that have sprouted up to serve them have contributed to a richerContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When the state legislature starts its new session this Monday, the mood will be anything but jovial. With the governor’s new budget proposal looming over their heads and well over $2 billion in cuts, lobbyists and social services will be pushing hard to keep fromContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews One of the first things Rob Horwitz noticed when he arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina last month was how well people were dressed. Yet he and 170 other participants in a nationwide United Jewish Communities mission did not travel to this cosmopolitan world-class city toContinue Reading