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By Marcia Migdal, Special to JTNews This year marks the fifth anniversary of the American Jewish Committee’s FILMTalks! program held each ye

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent

By Deloris Tarzan, other The most beautiful sound in the world is the “Ooooh!” of sudden understanding, volunteers in the Study Budd

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The awesome task of revealing a millennia-old secret tradition is now incumbent on the rabbis who are heir t

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Israel came into being at about the same time as the transistor. So, while it was common in the early yea

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Even the most hardened student of Holocaust art may be shocked by Music of Remembrance’s newest

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Jewish organizations and the people they help have survived another legislative session, thanks, in pa

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By , Special to JTNews The Middle East Forum has announced the opening of a regional office in Seattle to serve the Pacific Northwest area. The

By , Special to JTNews Seattle activist Mark Schuster was recently appointed to the national board of directors for Mazon, a national nonprofit or

By , Special to JTNews Bonnie Lipton, national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, and Dr. Shmuel Penchas, f

By , Special to JTNews The Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder recently named Shae Morry, M.S., as associate principal. Morry has an extensive backgrou

By , Special to JTNews A new Jewish youth club in West Seattle will meet on Wednesday afternoons between 3:45-5:30 p.m. from Oct. 9, 2002, to June

By , Special to JTNews The Washington State Jewish Historical Society (WSJHS) invites the public to join in honoring Meta Buttnick, founder of the

By , Special to JTNews Dr. David Tapper, surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, and professor and vice-chairma

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Despite Washington state’s 5 percent cut to the Caroline Kline Galland Home’s budget, the Jewish

By , Special to JTNews As Camp Solomon Schechter enters its 48th year of Jewish camping in the Northwest, a plan has been approved to dramatically

By , Special to JTNews In a show of solidarity with the California Department of Insurance, the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner ha

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent What brings a prayer up off the printed page and into the heart? The voice of an inspired singer. “

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent A local artist of Israeli origin is currently presenting a small but vibrant show on the effects o