By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews From Temple B’nai Torah’s beginnings in 1968, conducting services with a small Torah rescued from the Holocaust, through rebuilding after a devastating arson fire in 1977, TBT has led a diverse Jewish community to a place of leadership in Western Washington. Now, as theContinue Reading
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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 and professional leaders from more than 40 Jewish communities across North America on the United Jewish Communities’ (UJC) Annual Campaign Chairmen and Directors Mission,Continue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Jewish camping in North America. The Foundation for Jewish Camping even sent out a big press packet about this momentous occasion. Start a conversation with a kid at Camp Solomon Schechter, however, and centennials are the farthestContinue Reading
By Joshua Rosenstein, JTNews Correspondent When recent Jewish Day School grad Joshua Niehaus left Seattle for a year in Israel on Hadassah’s Young Judaea program, he was expecting to have fun, meet girls and party. “I wasn’t even afraid,” says Niehaus. “I was just going to be a spectator, watchingContinue Reading
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 vehicles, from jeeps and trucks, all the way up to tanks, and weapons ranging from M-16s to mortars. This spring he went back for anotherContinue Reading
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, the kids used to tease him — he didn’t change careers, he just got a new employer. Rabbi Nathan Rosenbaum was the spiritual leader of Temple BethContinue Reading
By Joshua Rosenstein, other Twelve and a half years after Tikvah House opened, the Seattle Association for the Jewish Disabled (SAJD) will be closing its group home for adults with developmental disabilities. In its place the SAJD is launching a new program called the Independent Living Project (ILP) in whichContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent For Jewish playwright Sharyn Shipley, this year’s Mae West Fest is an opportunity to produce the premiere of a play written especially for her mother. Her one-act joins a collection of 26 other new works by female writers, dancers, poets, performance artists and musicians, inContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color” (working title), a new four-part series produced by Seattle’s public broadcasting station, KCTS, will combine previously unseen color film from the 1930s and 1940s with passages from diaries and letters of American soldiers and their lovedContinue Reading
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 ascending the hills of Jerusalem. But that was not the case. We were in the Cascade Mountains on our way to Sun River, Ore.Continue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Pound for pound, Jeremy Benezra may be the strongest teenager in Washington State. The graduating senior from Newport, east of Bellevue, laid claim to the title by taking first place in the Washington state high school powerlifting championships for his weight class. The contest wasContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When Eastsiders Cooksie and Lionel Kramer arrived from South Africa nine years ago, they discovered a shortage of live jazz east of Seattle. Instead of just complaining about the lack of their favorite music in their new neighborhood, they did something about it. They startedContinue Reading
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 speaks English, the Jamaican-born Edwards doesn’t sound much like an Israeli either. But when you hear her sing “Hatikva,” which she knows by heart, there can beContinue Reading
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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 be at this hour. But then, he should be. At 25, he’s already anchoring the “Q-13 Morning News” and the media is comparing him to NBC “Today”Continue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Leaders from Jewish organizations and interfaith groups who spoke at Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s recent community-wide meeting on June 6, “Beyond Conflict: Toward Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace,” actually agreed on one thing — that if there is to be some sort of peace in theContinue Reading
By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The reminiscences were sometimes tearful, often humorous and always heartfelt as members of Temple Beth Hatfiloh honored Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz, who has stepped down from her pulpit after serving this South Sound congregation for 13 years. The June 30 gathering included singing, the showing ofContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews The Seattle Hebrew Academy announces the (re)opening of its Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) at its north Capitol Hill site. The program, once operated by SHA, has just completed a two-year association with the Stroum Jewish Community Center. Rabbi Shmuel Kay, SHA head of school,Continue Reading
By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle was recently awarded a 2002 Communications Award for “maintaining standards of excellence” in promoting its 2001 Night & Day for the “J” annual fundraiser. The Jewish Community Centers of North America Association honored the Stroum JCC withContinue Reading
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