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By Howard Sibelman, other My wife, my daughter and I went to Israel last month on a week-long mission sponsored by United Jewish Communities, the Jewish Federation movement. We extended our visit three days so we could visit more of the country than provided for by the mission itinerary. AtContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Greater Seattle B’nai B’rith Community Service Foundation is honoring Patty Stonesifer, president and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at their annual Champion of Youth Dinner, to take place May 19 at the Elliott Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seattle. “Patty Stonesifer exemplifies B’naiContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews On June 2, the Seattle Jewish Community School will hold its 10th auction at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers. In addition to being a fun and entertaining event (John Curley, host of KING 5 Television’s “Evening Magazine,” will be master of ceremonies), the schoolContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Jewish Family Life Education, the educational arm of Jewish Family Service, invites members of the Jewish community to attend an in-depth exploration and examination of one’s Jewish identity through a nontraditional method, “Theatre of the Oppressed,” on May 19. Marc Weinblatt, the featured presenter, willContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Relationships between science and art, Seattle and Israel, and the Fred Hutchinson Center Research Center and the Weizmann Institute came together recently on the University of Washington campus. At a gala event on April 11, the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Committee for theContinue Reading

By Deloris Tarzan Ament, other Eighty percent of college-age Jews continue their education after high school. It’s a critical time in their lives, an age when they’re searching for meaning. Many of them have only scant information about their Jewish heritage. College years are the last chance to give JewishContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent “I was just thinking of something that symbolizes dual heritage, and I thought Wallenberg was an outstanding example: There’s a large Scandinavian community in Seattle and there’s a growing Jewish community.” That’s how State Sen. Ken Jacobsen (D-46) recalled his idea for holding an annualContinue Reading

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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Honoring Tom O’Keefe, founder of Seattle-based Tully’s Coffee, with its 2002 Torch of Liberty Award was a natural choice for the Pacific Northwest Region of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Tully’s Coffee and the ADL partnered on this year’s Reducing Adolescent Prejudice (R.A.P.) Conference which includedContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As the once vibrant economy in Argentina collapses, members of Washington’s Jewish community are exploring what they can do to help the community of more than 200,000 Jews. In February, the Jewish Federations of North America pledged $40 million through the end of 2002 toContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Approximately 1,500 people gathered in downtown Seattle last week for the community Israel rally with a variety of different ideas about how to make peace in the Middle East. To gather a cross-section of these opinions, I talked to as many people as IContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews For 30 minutes on Tuesday, April 30, a large cross-section of the greater Seattle Jewish community — from across the political, religious and demographic spectrums — gathered together in support of Israel. About halfway through the downtown rally in support of Israel and America’sContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Pledges to the 2002 Jewish Federation Community Campaign totaled a little over $10 million, fund-raising chair Iantha Sidell announced at the end of April. The leap past last year’s $9.2 million achievement was mostly attributed to a successful extra fund-raising effort to collect emergencyContinue Reading

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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Memories, anecdotes and oral histories of lifetimes lived by Jewish seniors in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area are being recorded and published by Northwest Yeshiva High School students so that generations will have their histories preserved. In its first year at the highContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent You are cordially invited to a wedding at The Evergreen State College in Olympia…. What’s more, it’s a Jewish “ceremony,” with bride in white and groom beneath a chupah, a rabbi officiating and more than 90 guests holding hands and dancing the horah around theContinue Reading

By Lauren Segal, Special to JTNews The Seattle Chapter of Hadassah will honor life member and long-time philanthropist Althea Stroum at the Gala for Giving: A Salute to Heroes on Thursday, May 9, 2002, at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel. Originally from New York City, Althea was drawn by theContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent On March 12, about 360 students, teachers and facilitators attended the Reducing Adolescent Prejudice (RAP) conference, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, the Seattle Human Rights Commission and Tully’s Coffee. About 35 schools participated from such places as Seattle, Tacoma, Snohomish, Kitsap, Peninsula, Puyallup andContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent With so many glowing memories of Julie Mirel singing from the bimah, Tacoma’s Temple Beth El is preparing to bid a warm farewell to the cantorial soloist, who retires from her position in June after nine years of service. Mirel will be honored at aContinue Reading