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By , Special to JTNews If you haven’t set aside April 1 on your calendar for the Seattle Jewish Festival at Seattle Center, consider yoursel

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Jewish institutions closest to the epicenter of last week’s earthquake — synagogues in Tacoma an

By , Special to JTNews Working with a local software company, two professors at the University of Washington have designed an interactive CD-ROM f

By , Special to JTNews Moe Dinner’s rags-to-riches story would be hard to believe if it weren’t true. And the drive he harnessed to he

By Judith Stoloff, Special to JTNews What can you say about a 100th birthday that hasn’t been said before? Lots, when the centenarian is an

By , Special to JTNews Long-time Seattle Jewish community leaders Albert and Jeanne Maimon will be honored with the Seattle Hebrew Academy’s

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent After returning from 18 months in Israel, Lisa Narodick experienced a great deal of frustration finding a m

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Eight generations ago, her ancestor was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. Every subsequent generation in her

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews A recent ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco concerning California’s 199

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Next fall’s High Holiday services will be radically different in the Pacific Northwest. Four rab

By , Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva 38, Heritage Christian 22 When the teams came onto the court, everything smelled of a mismatch. The Eag

By Oren Kaufman, Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva 57, Ingraham 47 After two losses against Tacoma Baptist and Christian Faith, the Yeshiva ca

By Aryeh Young, Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva 70, Puget Sound Adventist 68 After a heart-breaking overtime loss to Seattle Academy, the 61

By , Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva 63, Puget Sound Adventist 40 The Northwest Yeshiva girls’ varsity came up big as they made their

By Rosie Leutzinger, Special to JTNews When University of Washington senior Jeremy Berman met current freshman teammate Michael Rubin, he welcomed

By Josefin Kannin, Special to JTNews “There’s nowhere to go and nothing to do.” Sound familiar? It’s one of the common l

By Sharon K. Gang, Special to JTNews Israeli papercut artist Yehudit Shadur’s work is based on a simple technique familiar to all children:

By , Special to JTNews Jewish community leaders feel so strongly that a trip to Israel should be part of every Jewish child’s education that

By Jenny Brown, Special to JTNews While a strong line-up of movies is the foundation of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, what makes this program

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The Seattle area is home to few kosher eateries, and the reason is numbers, says Rabbi Yitzchok Gallor, a