Category: News

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews From Temple B’nai Torah’s beginnings in 1968, conducting services with a small Torah rescued from

By Iantha Sidell and Neil Ross, Special to JTNews

By Iantha Sidell and Neil Ross, Special to JTNews Showing solidarity with the people of Israel during a critical time, we joined more than 100 lay

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Jewish camping in North America. The Foundation for Jewish C

By Joshua Rosenstein, JTNews Correspondent When recent Jewish Day School grad Joshua Niehaus left Seattle for a year in Israel on Hadassah’s

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Dr. Bob Fineman has been to Israel six times. In 1999, he slept in a military barracks and cleaned army ve

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews When Jay Rosenbaum’s dad made a mid-life change from the world of advertising to become a rabbi,

By Joshua Rosenstein, other Twelve and a half years after Tikvah House opened, the Seattle Association for the Jewish Disabled (SAJD) will be closi

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent For Jewish playwright Sharyn Shipley, this year’s Mae West Fest is an opportunity to produce the premi

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color” (working title), a new four-part ser

By Karen Treiger, Special to JTNews As we wound our way up through the mountains in the desert landscape, we could almost imagine that we were asce

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Pound for pound, Jeremy Benezra may be the strongest teenager in Washington State. The graduating senior f

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When Eastsiders Cooksie and Lionel Kramer arrived from South Africa nine years ago, they discovered a shorta

By Joshua Rosenstein, other Simone Edwards, a 6’4"center for the Seattle Storm WNBA team does not look like your average Israeli. When she sp

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent It’s 6 o’clock in the morning and Peter Alexander is more cheerful than anyone has a right to

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Leaders from Jewish organizations and interfaith groups who spoke at Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s recent co

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The reminiscences were sometimes tearful, often humorous and always heartfelt as members of Temple Beth Hat

By , Special to JTNews The Seattle Hebrew Academy announces the (re)opening of its Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) at its north Capitol Hi

By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle was recently awarded a 2002 Communications Award for “maintaini