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By , Special to JTNews Clear your calendar for Sunday, April 1, if you haven’t done so already. You’ll want to set aside the entire day to experience the Seattle Jewish Festival at Seattle Center, from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Don’t forget daylight savings time begins on April 1).Continue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews To repair earthquake damage and bring the 1909 Seattle Hebrew Academy building up to the modern earthquake code could cost between $2.5 and $5 million, according to school officials. That puts an enormous burden on the owners of the nearly four-acre property, which wasContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Another earthquake struck the greater Seattle Jewish community this month. The community’s leading philanthropist, Samuel N. Stroum, died on March 9 after an 11-month battle with pancreatic cancer. At a funeral service at Temple De Hirsch Sinai on March 11, rabbis, friends and Stroum’sContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Multifaith Works is beginning a new project: forming a special volunteer CareTeam to provide support for one person or household living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Volunteers report that their Multifaith Works CareTeam service has brought rewards and blessings into their own lives. As one volunteerContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Olympia’s Temple Beth Hatfiloh will hold its fourth annual “Blintzapalooza” blintz-making contest on Sunday, March 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The juried competition offers blintz artistes the chance to strut their stuffing, so to speak, and will raise funds for worthy causes inContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The girls’ varsity team at Northwest Yeshiva High School ended its 18—6 season on a high note, with a championship win at the Hillel invitational tournament in Miami. Coach Jed Davis praised the team for hard work that paid off in establishing the 613s asContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Diane Sigel and Robin Wehl, two women instrumental in the growth and success of the Pacific Northwest Region’s Young Judaea movement, have been chosen to receive honors at this year’s Community Havdalah, “M’Dor L’Dor—From Generation to Generation.” The Third Annual Havdalah, an evening for theContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch is dedicating its new synagogue in the View Ridge neighborhood on March 18. In keeping with centuries-old Jewish tradition, the move to the new synagogue will be celebrated by a festive procession during which the Torah scrolls will be carried through theContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent More than 200 people crowded the University of Washington’s Kane Hall to listen to a discussion about the Middle East peace process led by an Israeli and a Palestinian on Feb. 15. Jeff Halper, a Jewish-Israeli Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, and SalimContinue Reading

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Special to JTNews Many would imagine that it could be painful for a teacher to yield the front of the room. Segueing from confident expert to humble novice could be a bit complicated. My own transition from teacher to student causes a mild inner trauma. IContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent When you buy something at Second Hand Rose or donate items to the thrift store in the Greenwood neighborhood of North Seattle, you immediately become a part of a 88-year—old Jewish legacy, started at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains near Duarte, Calif. InContinue Reading

By Ruz Gulko, Special to JTNews Caring, comfort and confidentiality. Shabbat joy and “re-creation.” These were the themes and experiences of the first-ever Shabbaton at Camp Solomon Schechter for those who had converted to Judaism or were in the process of conversion through the Conservative Movement. Fifty people came fromContinue Reading

By Jennifer Morton, Special to JTNews It has been a little more than a year since members of the Chi-Deutron chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi moved into their new house at the University of Washington, and so far things are going well. “I’m very excited. We started with 13 membersContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Anne Morrison was literally a woman on a mission when she went to the Kingdom of Jordan last November. As one of five student winners of the King Hussein International Peace Through Tourism Award, she went to Amman to attend a four-day Global Summit onContinue Reading

By Charles Redell, Special to JTNews Radical Humanist. Working Class Intellectual. Filmmaker. Carpenter. Abe Osheroff is all of this and more. Born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1915, first arrested at 16, and fighting in the Spanish Civil War at 21, he now lives in Seattle, basking in the glow ofContinue Reading

By Bonnie Schiller, Special to JTNews Seattle Chapter Hadassah is proud to honor Lucy Sondland Pruzan at its May 1, 2001, Gala Dinner. Lucy was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, where her family found refuge, having left Germany just prior to the outbreak of World War II. She characterizes her motherContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Wonder bread, that icon of American sandwich culture, is on the verge of becoming kosher in the Washington-Oregon area. The certification process should be completed by mid-February, according to David Grashin, executive director of Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. The Va’ad is supervising the kosheringContinue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s former music director, who is now professor of Liturgical Arts at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, returns to address the congregation during Shabbat services on Friday night, March 9, to honor Rabbi Earl Starr on the occasions of his retirement andContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Last week’s earthquake made life at the state capitol a bit more complicated, but legislators and lobbyists say this legislative session was already in trouble long before the quake made the statehouse uninhabitable. “Every week, we get news about how the budget situation isContinue Reading