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By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As part of an annual program to promote tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe, the Seattle chapter of the

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent Volunteer social service programs are set up to provide assistance to those in need — but as so of

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Jewish power in America and the role of women now and in the past was the focus of the Jan. 14 Connections

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Albert Joseph Maimon needs to grow some big shoulders pretty fast. That’s the only way this litt

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The Bainbridge Island Police Dept. is confident that the person responsible for three anti-Semitic mailing

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Tax reform — read: raising taxes — may be the only way out of the state’s perpetual budget strug

By , Special to JTNews The American Society for Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (ATS) announces the appointment of Wendy Rosen, as its new

By , Special to JTNews The stage at the Stroum Jewish Community Center will light up this January with a play performed by kids in the JCC’s

By Amy Wasser-Simpson, other On the last Sunday in December 2001, a small group of dedicated volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Not all heroes are exciting. Not everyone can be a firefighter rushing into a collapsing tower. For some,

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent As the baby-boom generation has aged, we’ve discovered death whether by facing up to our own mortal

By , Special to JTNews Following the departure of executive director Gary Pollock this month, the Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattl

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews More than two years after leaving her job as the Jewish Federation’s first professional lobbyist

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews After Sept. 11, we all searched for concrete ways to help people in New York and Washington heal. Whil

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews King County Executive Ron Sims’ November memo reminding his workforce to remember religious dive

By , Special to JTNews Jewish Day School defeats Seattle Hebrew Academy in boys’ basketball The Jewish Day School narrowly defeated the Sea

By Amirav Davy, Special to JTNews For decades Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath Synagogue members Gustav and Ruth Samter have hosted students at their

By , Special to JTNews Entrepreneur and philanthropist Alex Shulman, who bought and sold many businesses during his career, has died at age 89.

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Less than a year after opening, The Summit at First Hill, the first independent and assisted living complex

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews JCC President Paul Etsekson says he has been amazed at the community response to a series of financial