By Uriel Heilman, JTA World News Service (JTA) – The mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman seems ripped straight out of a crime thriller. Nisman — the indefatigable prosecutor collecting evidence of culpability in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 peopleContinue Reading
By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent After five decades as a synagogue, youth facility, and multi-purpose space, the Yavneh building on Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath’s campus in Seward Park is scheduled for demolition. On Jan. 25, members of the NCSY youth group and community members will say goodbye to YavnehContinue Reading
Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent At Jewish Family Service, 2015 will be a time to start deepening the 123-year-old organization’s connection to Jewish values through a renewed vision for all who work there. Called Project Kavod (kavod means “honor” in Hebrew), the initiative will be a three-year education and trainingContinue Reading
By Zachary Solomon, Jewniverse/JTA World News Service For the kashrut-observant Cuban, there’s only one place to go for a piece of meat. Situated on Acosta Street in Old Havana is Cuba’s sole kosher butcher shop. For nearly 70 years, the privately run business has provided kosher beef to the country’s Jews,Continue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent Watch out, Oscar Wilde. Move aside, George Bernard Shaw. Here comes Danielle Kohorn. A short play written by the 12-year-old Jewish Day School middle school student has been selected by the Washington Ensemble Theater and will be staged this spring during the annual YoungContinue Reading
(JTA) — A Charlie Hebdo columnist was killed because she was Jewish, the victim’s cousin said. Elsa Cayat was the only woman killed in the targeted attack Jan. 7 on the satirical magazine’s Paris headquarters by two al-Qaida operatives, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi. Cayat received threatening phone calls inContinue Reading
PARIS (JTA) — Hundreds gathered with the leaders of France and Israel to remember the victims of an attack at a kosher supermarket near Paris. French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined several hundred members of the Jewish community at the memorial Sunday night at theContinue Reading
(JTA) — Several hostages were killed as simultaneous police raids on Friday ended the two hostage crises in Paris, one of which was at a kosher supermarket. The raids also left all of the captors dead, including the two brothers suspected with perpetrating Wednesday’s attack at Charlie Hebdo. The hostageContinue Reading
By Daniel S. Mariaschin, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — Before the HarperCollins Middle East atlas story is deleted from email inboxes, it pays to spend another moment ruminating on the damage caused by companies that ought to know better. On its website, HarperCollins bills itself as “one ofContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Underneath the rubble and ashes of Eastern Europe lies a buried civilization, and one of its excavators is former West Seattle resident Gerardo Ojeda-Ebert. This spring, with Rabbi Olivier BenHaim and members of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue, Ojeda-Ebert will travel toContinue Reading
By Boris Kurbanov, Jewish Sound Correspondent Today, an estimated 40,000 Jews call Spain their home. But five centuries ago, the nation was home to one of Europe’s largest and most vibrant Jewish communities — a group that flourished before its expulsion in 1492. Those exiled Jews — who came toContinue Reading
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Not long after the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle announced it would be leading a delegation to Cuba this spring, President Barack Obama announced that international relations would be restored between the United States and the small island nation after decadesContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick Editor, The Jewish Sound Now that 2015 has begun, what from the past year are you trying to forget? Fear not, because we’ve got 14 stumpers to jog your memory with Jewish Washington’s second annual news quiz! 1. The Napkin Friends food truck is so JewishContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Over the past six years, hundreds of families throughout the Puget Sound region have taken advantage of PJ Library, a program where small children receive a Jewish book each month in the mail. But because the program tops out at age 8, manyContinue Reading
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA) — An attack on the Paris headquarters of a French satirical magazine has left at least 12 people dead, including the Jewish caricaturist Georges Wolinski. Two of the reported fatalities in Wednesday’s attack were police officers, according to the French daily newspaperContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Northwest Yeshiva High School, a coed Orthodox school for grades 9 through 12, is somewhat of a Jewish United Nations in that it mixes things up by accepting all denominations of Jews from Orthodox to Reform, as well as the unaffiliated into itsContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound They’ve done this trip before, but this summer, the Holocaust Center for Humanity is doing something new. Added onto the educational trip through Warsaw and Krakow that the organization formerly known as the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center will be an optionalContinue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Jewish Sound Correspondent For one Bellevue retiree, President Obama’s decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba rekindled memories of his parents’ clandestine escape from the island nation more than 50 years ago. Gabe Sterns remembers clearly how it took dramatic action from both U.S. senators fromContinue Reading
By Tori Gottlieb, Jewish Sound Correspondent For families who wanted their daughters to have an Orthodox Jewish high school education in a single-gender setting, Derech Emunah was founded in 2012. Now in its third year, the school boasts a small student body of 10 students who take classes together inContinue Reading
NEW YORK (JTA) — Streit’s said it will close the company’s 90-year-old matzah factory on New York’s Lower East Side. Aron Streit, Inc., a family-owned business, said it will leave the facility at 148-154 Rivington St. following the Passover baking season in April. “The economics just finally caught up withContinue Reading
