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By , Special to JTNews Jewish Family Service will once again conduct its popular Hanukkah Tzedakah drive. Through the generosity of the community,

By , Special to JTNews Like many others in the greater Seattle area, Yechezkel Rapoport and his wife Ora make their living as computer professiona

By Josefin Kanin, Special to JTNews In 1999, the JCC Association began an ambitious project to establish Young Judaea groups as endorsed programs

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent About 60 students gave the enthusiastic Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin of Chabad-Lubavitch their full attention a

By Sarah Shay, Special to JTNews All men have hobbies. Some fish, some garden, some collect antiques. My father, Robert Shay, runs the largest Jew

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Congregation Kol Shalom, a growing Reform congregation on Bainbridge Island, has welcomed a new, part-time r

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “In light of recent national events and as the youngest Holocaust survivors generation approaches, th

By , Special to JTNews Nearly 350 people gave back-to-back standing ovations at a American Jewish Committee salute to John Rindlaub, president of

By , Special to JTNews After serving seven years as executive director of the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, David Grashin will be leav

By , Special to JTNews Fielding a new interscholastic sports team at any school usually means starting out with a loser. But that’s not how

By , Special to JTNews Dina Elikan, MSW/ACSW, the new director of Senior Services at Jewish Family Service, says her 97-year-old grandmother, who

By Annette Peizer, Special to JTNews What parents don’t want their child to be the one teachers all find a delight to have in their classes,

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent A documentary illustrating the painstaking renovation of an historic synagogue in Eastern Europe a

By Joanna Kadish, other The autumn wind blows circles around the stalwart evergreens and thin birches bordering Interlaken Boulevard on Capitol Hi

By Josefin Kanin, Special to JTNews Volunteer leadership of the Stroum Jewish Community Center bid farewell to the leaders of the center staff at

By Bruce Clement, Special to JTNews Nearly 40 past leaders of Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation will be on hand for a gala dinner Nov. 11 to help

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews About 325 people could have saved a lot of money and not missed a Mariners playoff game if they had ch

By , Special to JTNews “Voices of Reason,” a concert of Christian, Jewish and Islamic music based on the three religions’ common

By , Special to JTNews Seattle Chapter Hadassah kicked off a celebration of Hadassah’s 90th anniversary on Sept. 13, at the Stroum Jewish Co

By , Special to JTNews Parents with children in the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s (JCC) preschool program breathed a sigh of satisfaction