News (Page 188)

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Community members joined together a number of times this past week to remember the Holocaust. Government officials and Jewish community leaders were well represented at B’nai B’rith’s presentation of “Unto Every Person There Is a Name” on April 19 at Seattle’s Westlake Center. Some ofContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Although prayer is meant to calm the spirit and unite people, it has caused divisiveness and contention between members of the Spokane City Council and the Spokane Human Rights Commission. A 1995 resolution by the Spokane City Council to open their council meetings with anContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced at a press conference April 17 that his office’s Web site would list the names of the American affiliates of those European companies that conducted business during the Holocaust, between 1933 and 1945. Washington state’s Holocaust Victims Insurance ReliefContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, Special to JTNews The newest addition to the rabbinical community of the Northwest will be a spiritual leader who used to be a lawyer and will move here from his home in Arkansas. No, Bill Clinton hasn’t joined the clergy but Rabbi Harley Karz-Wagman has. After havingContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews This past January, a group of Kline Galland residents began a journey to revive their Jewish spirit by learning to read Hebrew. The following people completed the course on March 25: Shirley Agranoff, Martha Kaufman, David Krakovsky, Harold Lazaroff, Bertha Reynolds, Richard Silver, Naum SlutzkyContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The sixth Music of Remembrance concert, on April 23 at Benaroya Hall, will use movement and dance to help the audience transcend time and emotion when thinking about the Holocaust and loss. “I hope it will be a moving experience for the audience,” saidContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Join ex-camper alumni and friends of Camp Solomon Schechter, May 18—20, for a Shabbat weekend. See the updates and changes that have been made to camp since you were a camper, while catching up with old friends and making new ones. Activities will include FridayContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Seattle Chapter Hadassah presents Dr. Deborah Lipstadt as the keynote speaker at its May 3 Gala for Giving honoring Lucy Pruzan. Professor Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta where she directs the Institute for Jewish Studies.Continue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Anti-poverty advocates and Jewish community lobbyists last week commended state senators for taking action to restore cuts to medical assistance for the indigent and the disabled and encouraged the House of Representatives to follow suit. In a statement last week, Jewish and Christian advocacyContinue Reading

By Nance Morris, Special to JTNews On March 18, despite a steady downpour, members and friends of Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch danced in the streets carrying two Torah scrolls from the house where the congregation first held services to their new permanent home. After more than a decade in temporary locations,Continue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews As you squeeze into Hillel next week, seeking a place among the overflowing crowd to enjoy your Passover lunch, the leaders of the campus Jewish center are hoping you will recognize that the organization has outgrown it building and needs a new facility. They’reContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The growing Israeli population of the greater Seattle area will finally have an official Israeli cultural focal point, with the kick-off event of a new “Israeli House” on March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the JCC on Mercer Island ($10 entrance fee to cover costs).Continue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Pesach to Shavuot is the time of preparation as we ascend from the consciousness of slaves leaving Egypt to the consciousness of a people receiving Revelation at Sinai. In the biblical period, Jews marked that time with the counting of the Omer. During the KabbalisticContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Following the recommendations of its Strategic Planning Committee, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society has taken steps to increase the productivity and recognition of the organization by hiring a part-time executive director and establishing a free-standing office. Susan Levine, who had been the coordinator ofContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews TACOMA — Author and columnist James Carroll will speak about “Anti-Semitism, History and Conscience: A Christian Reflects” on April 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kilworth Memorial Chapel at the University of Puget Sound. “I want to help people, especially college students, see this asContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Fifty-two performers in the Eifman Ballet will make their Seattle debut at the University of Washington’s Meany Hall with “A Russian Hamlet: The Son of Catherine the Great,” through March 24. The company’s creator, Boris Eifman, although a non-practicing Jew, said that his choreography bringsContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Jewish Family Service and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations have teamed up to be proactive against the rising divorce rate among Jewish couples in America. Seattle will be one of three cities to test a pilot program for couples who plan to marry calledContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Community leaders asked to share a memory of Sam Stroum offered the following stories: “When we first came to town 27 years ago, Sam and Althea were among the first to greet us. They took Julie and me out to dinner and to the OperaContinue Reading

By Holly M. Redell, Special to JTNews “I have been an observant Jew since I was a baby,” says Miriam,* “and, to be honest, I was afraid to go to the seder last year because of who might see me there, especially that the rabbi would see me there.” InContinue Reading