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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Temple Beth Am’s Rabbi Jonathan Singer still seems a bit shy about the award he and his wife, Rabbi

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews Over the past 50 years, thousands in Seattle’s young adult Jewish community have walked through the door

By Carol Oseran Starin, Special to JTNews Morah Dorothy reaches into the large paper bag and out comes “Ari,” a beautiful lion puppet that seems to

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Those attending KlezFest on Nov. 10 at Temple Beth Am in Seattle can expect a lively mix of Jewish music thi

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent When Mercer Island artist Madelaine Georgette paints these days, she focuses on what she calls ubuntu — com

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Excitement about the impending collaboration with Microsoft Corporation highlighted the American Technion Soc

By Hally Jackson, JTNews Correspondent

By Hally Jackson, JTNews Correspondent Karen Gamoran, Herzl-Ner Tamid and Temple De Hirsch member, blushes when her peers call her a philanthropist

By Rabbi Michael A. Latz, other I grew up in Minnesota. Shabbat dinners at my grandparents’ home in St. Paul frame my childhood memories of l

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent West Sound Academy’s upcoming production of “A Shayna Maidel” is a powerful drama with appeal to audie

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Belle Arte Concerts, in its 21st season of presenting professional classical chamber music concerts on the E

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Three local Holocaust survivors told their stories to a group of international scholars at a three-day confer

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Although the official results have not yet been certified, at least four of the six Jewish candidates for p

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Bob Jaffe, a member of the local Jewish community, is in desperate need of a kidney. Jaffe has end-stage re

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews Pups for Peace is a simple and practical example of what one can do to counter the shock, outrage, and sense o

By Joel Magalnick, Special to JTNews The clock struck 3, the static cleared, and that deep radio voice warned us that “Not only are the opinions ex

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Kosher food does not usually have a reputation for being easy to find, particularly in the Northwest. But a n

By Joel Magalnick, Special to JTNews The Seattle Hebrew Academy has announced Seattle’s oldest Jewish day school will remain at its Capitol H

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Now that it has all been settled, all sides appear ready to call overblown the charges of “snubs” and “cen

By Joshua Rosenstein, Special to JTNews The first Jewish baby born in Washington since the Jewish year started Sept. 6 was born a world traveler. H