By Maya Pogrebinsky, Special to the Jewish Sound When was the last time you paid a visit to a resident of an assisted-living center? When was your most recent encounter with an elderly member of the community who wasn’t a relative? A group of about 15 students from Northwest YeshivaContinue 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 Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Looking back on the past 84 years, Isaac Azose is most proud of the family he built. Next, he’s proudest of his books — the five prayer books in the Sephardic tradition of the Isle of Rhodes that he edited andContinue Reading
By Anne Boher, Special to the Jewish Sound Note: This piece complements Erin Pike’s story, The Jewish capacity for love. Recently, Emily Ziskind, director of life enrichment at The Summit at First Hill, asked my husband Leslie and me if we’d like to join a group of young people fromContinue Reading
By Erin Pike, Special to the Jewish Sound Note: This story complements Anne Boher’s story Our bridge across the generations. Love has been on my mind. Exactly one year ago I was in Israel, falling in love with its natural beauty and powerful spiritual energy. It was no accident thatContinue Reading
By Rabbi Jack Riemer, JNS.org Sara Davidson’s “The December Project” is a new book that should be read by all senior citizens, and by those who hope to live a long life, for it raises a question that most of us have not been taught how to answer: What shouldContinue Reading
By Dan Aznoff, Special to The Jewish Sound Mercer Island resident Alan Woog had some unfinished business. Five years ago, Woog shared the Northwest Senior United States Tennis Association indoor doubles championship in the 85-and-over division. Word of his athletic prowess apparently spread across the tennis circuit because there were noContinue Reading
By Marilyn Corets, Special to the Jewish Sound Following the death of my mother, Roberta, on May 9, 2011, my father, Ellis Corets, started to dedicate his time to remembering American Jewish military members who never returned home from overseas combat. A Korean War veteran, now 82 years old, DadContinue Reading
In 1995, Renewal Judaism founder Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi published his book “From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing,” based on his studies of world religions and lifelong values. The concept of the book — that people should look for ways to make the golden years of their life as easy and fulfilling asContinue Reading
By Rabbi Fred Grossman, Special to JTNews That’s the question I’m always coming up against in my work as a hospice chaplain. It’s my job to help people get ready to die. But the trouble with this, as you can imagine, is that people don’t want to die. In fact,Continue Reading
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