News (Page 187)

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent More than 250 films from over 50 countries will be presented in the Seattle International Film Festival, May 24—June 17, including several with Jewish content. “Divided We Fall” Czech Republic, 2000, 117 minutes Set in the last years of WWII in a small Czechoslovakian town,Continue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Because the world may never know everything there is to know about the Holocaust, events like the Raoul Wallenberg Dinner at the Nordic Heritage Museum continue to offer relevant scholarship in an attempt to gain more understanding. This year’s dinner featured Steven Koblik, internationally recognizedContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Council House director by day and performer at night, Stephen Mitchell uses his creativity to make life for retirees entertaining. He recently brought a busload of Council House residents to see the play “South Pacific” at Civic Light Opera, in which he portrayed the leadingContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Rabbi Shoshanah Devorah, newly ordained from Aleph: The Alliance For Jewish Renewal, has moved to Seattle from Boulder, Colo., to join the staff of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance as a chaplain working exclusively with transplant patients. A joint venture of three of Seattle’s world- classContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent One or more students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia will receive sanctions for drawing an offensive cartoon and slipping it under another student’s door. The incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, at a campus dormitory. Two students, one African-AmericanContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent From Chasidism to Orthodoxy, from Reform to Jewish Renewal, the Jewish instinct to evolve and renew itself has led scholars and religious leadership to construct a “post-traditional” template for the modern Jew. Within this template, many are witnessing a blurring of the lines that usedContinue Reading

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 Corned Beef, because he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, heart failure from an unexplained cause, and given six months to live unless he received a heart transplant.Continue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Olympia’s Temple Beth Hatfiloh, unaffiliated since its founding in 1937, became Washington state’s only Reconstructionist synagogue on May 7, when its application for membership to the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation was unanimously approved by that organization’s board of directors. “I think we have taken a reallyContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The Northwest Jewish Environmental Project (NWJEP) commemorated Earth Day by implementing environmental education and awareness programs at the Jewish Day School and Seattle Jewish Community School. The programs were aimed at promoting awareness of global warming with fourth and fifth graders and teaching them whatContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Tickets for the 63rd annual Seattle—King County First Citizen Awards banquet are now available. Seattle native Herbert (“Herb”) M. Bridge, this year’s recipient, will be honored at a public ceremony on May 30 at the Westin Hotel in Seattle. Family, military officers, fellow business leaders,Continue Reading

By Lorraine Sidell, JTNews Correspondent Undaunted by rain and blustery winds, an estimated 800—900 people crowded into The Summit at First Hill on Sunday, April 29, to participate in an open house celebrating the formal opening of the Kline Galland Center’s new retirement apartments. Guests were impressed by the lobbyContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Seattle Symphony opened the doors of its music discovery center, Soundbridge, on April 17 to “inspire and nurture a love of symphonic music through active participation,” said Seattle Symphony’s Executive Director Deborah Card. In anticipation of the opening, the symphony’s conductor Gerard Schwartz said, “EducationContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Among the sea of statistics and personal stories, the message at a recent conference in Seattle on interfaith relationships was that it’s time to move on from debating the impact of interfaith relationships on Judaism and embrace and encourage those families who want to becomeContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Administrators at the Kline Galland Home can stop holding their breath and get ready for a sigh of relief. It appears this week that the Legislature will be giving the nursing home at least a one-year reprieve on plans to cut Medicaid reimbursement rates.Continue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Celebrated Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt, in Seattle to speak at Hadassah’s Gala for Giving, credited the cycle of weekly Torah readings and Jewish holidays with adding personal meaning to her recent experiences as defendant in a notorious British court case. At the Seattle Sheraton onContinue Reading

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 Field at an Old Timers’ Game. As a young man he was scouted and signed by the then-Philadelphia Athletics (known universally these days as theContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Temple Beth Am, a Reform congregation in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood, is bringing Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights, for a weekend of learning, May 4-6, 2001. Ascherman will speak at services on Friday night, May 4, at 8 p.m. His topicContinue Reading

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 telephone interview, “I learned from my local Baptist church that Jewish people were responsible for crucifying Christ. I became involved with the Klan when IContinue Reading

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 Washington have decided to financially support the Jewish Campus Service Corps (JCSC) position at Hillel at the University of Washington. The JCSC outreach program isContinue Reading