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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Herod the Great, who ruled as King of Judea beginning about a century after Judah the Maccabee made his t

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent “There’s a double-ness in what you hear people say about Jews and what you see written about J

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The wandering school has settled down again. The Seattle Jewish Community School, which has occupied f

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent “This is a new passage, perhaps a turning point,” said Eran Lerman, the new director of the Am

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The Legislature won’t be pulling any financial miracles out of a hat this year, according to Jew

By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle is the winner of a 2002 communications award for “maintaining s

By , Special to JTNews Eight students from Garfield High School are currently participating in “Project: Gambia,” a collaboration of R

By , Special to JTNews The theme for this year’s Pacific Northwest Mini-CAJE on Feb. 17 and 18, is “The Jewish Bookshelf” reflec

By , Special to JTNews It is estimated that 10 to 20 percent of the Seattle area Jewish population lives in poverty. Between Purim and Passover th

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Started in 1998 as a joint venture between the Multiple Sclerosis Association of King County (MSA) and Mult

By Joanna Kadish, other Contrary to the basic Seattle rule, “If it’s going to snow, don’t go,” more than 140 people from a

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Local civil, human and religious rights groups clashed with the city of Bellevue over its decision to allow

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Dr. Feng Shan Ho, Chinese consul general in Vienna on the eve of the Second World War, is credited with pr

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent OLYMPIA — Anti-Defamation League—inspired bills targeting hate groups and others that commit violent civil

By , Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva High School’s Annual Dinner will take place Feb. 17 at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel in Seattle.

By , Special to JTNews For the past 13 years, the Seattle Jewish Coalition for the Homeless has been holding a winter toy and book drive. Although

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent For the past 10 years, the Seattle Kollel, or universal community, has been offering Jewish learning for eve

By Amy Shafron, Special to JTNews The JDS Annual Dinner and Auction on Sunday, March 10, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel will pay tribute to the mem

By , Special to JTNews B’nai B’rith International has given Dina Siegel Vann, Latin American affairs director in its Center for Public

By Rebecca Lackman, Special to JTNews The Seattle Jewish Film Festival returns for its seventh year this spring, but during a different week. The