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By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Gary Pollock says his 17th year as director of the Stroum Jewish Community Center will be his last. He

By , Special to JTNews Eight JDS students in grades 2—5 will join hundreds of other students in a three-week summer program sponsored by the Belle

By , Special to JTNews Over the past six years, many JDS students in grades 5—8 have chosen to spend a wintery Sunday morning taking either the PL

By , Special to JTNews Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ordained Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl, a native of Tacoma, and Rabbis La

By Abigail Brown, Special to JTNews Ninety students and twenty-somethings from Seattle or Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the Universi

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The prophet Isaiah exhorted: “All of your children shall be taught of the Lord.” Some rabbinic s

By , Special to JTNews NEW YORK — Late last month, the Mandel Foundation convened the third assembly of a new tier of senior professionals in Jewi

By Lorraine Sidell, Special to JTNews There were more than a few misty eyes among those gathered to escort the newly acquired Torah into The Summi

By , Special to JTNews The American Jewish Press Association presented The Jewish Transcript with a first-place honor in its Simon Rockower Awards

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Washington state residents who survived the Holocaust are tired of waiting. Despite well-publicized an

By , Special to JTNews Night & Day for the “J”, the Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle’s annual fund-raiser, will

By , Special to JTNews On May 20, the Jewish Club of Washington held its annual election meeting and at the same time celebrated Klaus Stern’

By , Special to JTNews The Women’s Endowment Foundation celebrated a “decade of giving” last month when it announced three grant

By Abigail Brown, Special to JTNews On Sunday, May 20, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the University of Washington hosted “

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Even Gov. Gary Locke found it difficult to take a serious approach to his speech saluting the 2001 Fir

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Mildred Rosenbaum wasn’t exactly sure what she had done to deserve entrance to such an interesti

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When Ben Rigberg’s wife came to Walla Walla as a visiting assistant professor at Whitman College in 1

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Rabbi H. David Rose, spiritual leader of Herzl-Ner Tamid Congregation for 15 of the past 18 years, sai

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Thanks to Rep. Laura Ruderman and other Jewish legislators who consider the Kline Galland Home part of

By , Special to JTNews More than 50 people gathered at Temple B’nai Torah, May 6 to hear and participate in an interactive scientific presen