By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Families happen in all sorts of ways. People marry and have babies as they always have; “blended families,” bring together children in second marriages. In some cases people resort to modern science to help have children when the old-fashioned ways fail. For Steven and RachelyContinue Reading
By Max Huer, other NEW YORK, June 5 (JTA) — As Robin Wehl listens to an Austrian radio station streamed over the Internet, she understands bits and pieces of the German that her father, who left the country on the eve of World War II, spoke when Wehl was aContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews It took the wisdom of King Solomon — and more than 50 hours of meetings — for two Jewish Federation committees to figure out how to allocate funds from the 2002 Community Campaign, which brought in $374,492 less to allocate than the previous year’sContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Over 770 children will be joining the Camp Solomon Schechter family for its 48th summer, having doubled in size over the past five years under the direction of executive director Hilary Buff. This year, the camp welcomes Jodi Sperling as its full-time director and fifthContinue Reading
By Allison Covey, Special to JTNews After only four short days of being in the state of Israel — a land of war and religion, ancient culture and modern metropolises — I found myself standing in front of the Western Wall (Kotel) in the center of Old Jerusalem. The holiestContinue Reading
By Stephen Adler, Special to JTNews Would you knowingly deal with a company that owes you or your parents money? Would you knowingly deal with a company that owes members of the Jewish community money on their insurance policies? Large European insurance companies sold insurance to Jews in Germany, France,Continue Reading
By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews When the Sisterhood of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue decided to beautify the walls of the social hall, they also decided to approach the project from an entirely new angle — they decided to involve the entire congregation in creating the art. Although “artContinue Reading
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By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Manli Ho, daughter of Holocaust rescuer Dr. Feng Shan Ho, addressed an audience of some 60 appreciative listeners on the subject of her father on May 23 at the Wing Luke Asian Museum. The evening program began with a short video about Dr. Ho thatContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Recently, Rabbi David Forman’s 15-year-old daughter’s school in Israel was designated a bombing target for Palestinian terrorists. A 19-year-old Palestinian girl went there to attack, but was caught before the school could be damaged. Despite the fact that Forman’s teen-age daughter now talks to herContinue Reading
By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Despite its own financial troubles, Seattle Hebrew Academy recently raised $10,500, enough to buy 20 bulletproof vests for children in Israel. The school was the top fund-raiser among some 170 schools worldwide participating in the vest campaign, Rabbi Shmuel Kay, the school’s headmaster, told studentsContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Gary Elsberry looks at Israel as the front line in the world’s war on terrorism. Elsberry, an Osage Indian living in Bellingham, is a Baptist. Like many Christians, he views the survival of the state of Israel as more than a religious issue, but evenContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The largest Jewish congregation in the Pacific Northwest is struggling with the revelation that one of Seattle’s senior rabbis has embezzled funds for at least two decades. Rabbi Earl Starr, who served Temple De Hirsch Sinai for 31 years, has agreed to give upContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The Seattle woman who has helped make Jewish education so popular that people bid on learning opportunities with her at fund-raising auctions has been named the recipient of a prestigious national award. Rivy Poupko Kletenik will be one of three Jewish educators to receiveContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Volunteers and staff of the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle jokingly call their new preschool and childcare program the “seat of our pants preschool.” The name reflects the speed at which they turned disappointing news from the Stroum Jewish Community Center — thatContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Doug Rosen will be honored with the Samuel & Althea Stroum Spirit of Inspiration award at the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s annual fund-raising dinner and auction, Night & Day for the “J,” on June 23. Rosen received a B.S. degree from the University of WashingtonContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent On a Thursday evening in April, the Northwest Chapter of the American Technion Society, together with Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue, sponsored a presentation by Israeli-born counterterrorism expert Dr. Sabi Shabtai that seemed more like a security briefing than a lecture. “Israel and theContinue Reading
By Michael U. Newman, other p class=“p1”>Vittorio De Sica’s extraordinary film “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” enters into a vanished world, into a circle of affluent and cultured young Italian Jews coming of age, searching for love and pleasure within the high walls of their opulent family homes during theContinue Reading
By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent When Eitan Rind was a toddler, just 18 months old, his mother knew something was not right: Eitan was simply not acting the way her two older children had. He did not make eye-contact the way babies normally do. He was uninterested in the worldContinue Reading
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