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By , Special to JTNews The Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard is hosting this month a show of photographs documenting Nazi concentration camps and

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent More than 250 films from over 50 countries will be presented in the Seattle International Film Festival, Ma

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Because the world may never know everything there is to know about the Holocaust, events like the Raoul Wall

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Council House director by day and performer at night, Stephen Mitchell uses his creativity to make life for

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Rabbi Shoshanah Devorah, newly ordained from Aleph: The Alliance For Jewish Renewal, has moved to Seattle fr

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent One or more students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia will receive sanctions for drawing an offen

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent From Chasidism to Orthodoxy, from Reform to Jewish Renewal, the Jewish instinct to evolve and renew itself h

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent In 1995, at the age of 49, Jeffrey Akrish was forced to retire from his family business, Market House Co

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Olympia’s Temple Beth Hatfiloh, unaffiliated since its founding in 1937, became Washington stateR

By , Special to JTNews The Northwest Jewish Environmental Project (NWJEP) commemorated Earth Day by implementing environmental education and aware

By , Special to JTNews Tickets for the 63rd annual Seattle—King County First Citizen Awards banquet are now available. Seattle native Herbert (

By Lorraine Sidell, JTNews Correspondent Undaunted by rain and blustery winds, an estimated 800—900 people crowded into The Summit at First Hill on

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Seattle Symphony opened the doors of its music discovery center, Soundbridge, on April 17 to “inspire

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Among the sea of statistics and personal stories, the message at a recent conference in Seattle on interfait

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Administrators at the Kline Galland Home can stop holding their breath and get ready for a sigh of rel

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Celebrated Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, in Seattle to speak at Hadassah’s Gala for Giving

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent If Earl Starr had been just a little bit better at baseball, he might have made his appearance at Safeco

By , Special to JTNews Temple Beth Am, a Reform congregation in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood, is bringing Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Floyd Cochran used to thrive on hate. “As a child at the age of 8,” he said in a recent teleph

By Abby Brown, Special to JTNews Following the sale of their fraternity house, the alumni of the former Sigma Alpha Mu at the University of Washin