By Marcia Migdal, Special to JTNews This year marks the fifth anniversary of the American Jewish Committee’s FILMTalks! program held each year at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival. This milestone celebrates the success of the past four years while expanding to a year round program. Since the program’s inception fourContinue Reading
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By Deloris Tarzan, other The most beautiful sound in the world is the “Ooooh!” of sudden understanding, volunteers in the Study Buddy Program will tell you. It’s usually accompanied by a light in the eyes that tells the tutor they’ve helped with another small leap of learning for a studentContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The awesome task of revealing a millennia-old secret tradition is now incumbent on the rabbis who are heir to it. Rabbi Yehuda Berg, along with fifty instructors at The Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles and thousands of worldwide volunteers, is the latest in a longContinue Reading
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 years to highlight the country’s agricultural successes in “making the desert bloom,” it is not all that surprising to see it growing now as aContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Even the most hardened student of Holocaust art may be shocked by Music of Remembrance’s newest commissioned piece, “Camp Songs” by acclaimed American composer Paul Schoenfield, which will premiere at the organization’s April 7 concert. The new work for vocal and chamber ensemble isContinue Reading
By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Jewish organizations and the people they help have survived another legislative session, thanks, in part, to the efforts of community advocates and their army of citizen lobbyists. “It ended up not as bad as it could have been,” reported Sherry Appleton, lobbyist for theContinue Reading
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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 Northwest office will be headed by Gil Elan, an analyst, who will focus on speaking about the Middle East both in person and onContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Seattle activist Mark Schuster was recently appointed to the national board of directors for Mazon, a national nonprofit organization that allocates donations from the Jewish community to prevent and alleviate hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds. Schuster will represent the organization to theContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Bonnie Lipton, national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, and Dr. Shmuel Penchas, former director general of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, will visit Seattle in August. During their visit, they will be guests of honor at a garden party honoring past and currentContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews The Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder recently named Shae Morry, M.S., as associate principal. Morry has an extensive background as an educator, having taught and administered in the public, private and religious sectors. Her experience bridges nursery through college levels. Morry, who holds a master’s degreeContinue Reading
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 2003. Dropoff will begin at 3:30 p.m. Programs are for ages 5-7 and 8-12 featuring arts and crafts, storytelling, snacks, singing, Jewish learningContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews The Washington State Jewish Historical Society (WSJHS) invites the public to join in honoring Meta Buttnick, founder of the organization, at their annual meeting on Sept. 25. The meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S. Morgan St., Seattle. ButtnickContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews Dr. David Tapper, surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, and professor and vice-chairman of surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, died at home on July 23, 2002 after a courageous battle with kidney cancer. He was 57. Dr. Tapper graduatedContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Despite Washington state’s 5 percent cut to the Caroline Kline Galland Home’s budget, the Jewish nursing home remains the No. 1 ranked nursing home in the state when it comes to delivering high-quality, long-term care for the elderly and disabled who call it home. AccordingContinue Reading
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 increase the number of beds available to campers. The camp is committed to accommodating the number of youth from the Northwest who desire aContinue Reading
By , Special to JTNews In a show of solidarity with the California Department of Insurance, the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner has filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of California’s legally besieged 1999 Holocaust Victims Insurance ReliefContinue Reading
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. “Lift Every Voice and Sing: Celebrating Cultures Through Song,” a unique two-concert series at Town Hall, presents inspired singers from three different Jewish religious traditions andContinue Reading
By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent A local artist of Israeli origin is currently presenting a small but vibrant show on the effects of war in the Middle East. The solo show, at the Wallingford Neighborhood Office, is a visual and emotional tour of the war-torn Israeli landscape offered throughContinue Reading
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