Taryn Harris: A student leader with a passion for Israel
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound Taryn Harris has a lot going on. The University of Washington senior majoring in history and minoring in Spanish and Jewish studies is the president of Washington Students for Israel, a member of the student senate, a history fellow, an internContinue Reading
Federation building sold
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound On Oct. 22, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle completed the sale of its headquarters in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood to local developer Martin Selig. The $8.45 million sale is part of a three-building package on the block of Third Ave. between Lenora andContinue Reading
It’s time to act: Vote Yes on I-594
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound Every morning, Seattle mayor Ed Murray wakes up, walks his dog, then gets a report on what happened overnight throughout the city. Invariably, he told a crowd of nearly 200 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Oct. 19, there will have been anContinue Reading
Honored for a life of philanthropy, and from the farm to the keyboard
By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist There are a lot of reasons why Michele and Stan Rosen were named the 2014 outstanding philanthropic family by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. “It’s a little embarrassing,” says Michele of the attention. “There are lots of reasons we give, but [getting awards] isn’tContinue Reading
Could more shuteye mean less cancer?
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Columnist The evidence that our sleep time and quality is a significant factor in our health continues to mount. In May 2014, Israel: to Your Health reported that researchers at the Rambam Medical Campus in Haifa saw the mice in their study published in theContinue Reading
After Twitter ruling, tech firms increasingly toe Europe’s line on hate speech
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service BRUSSELS (JTA) — A little over a year after a French court forced Twitter to remove some anti-Semitic content, experts say the ruling has had a ripple effect, leading other Internet companies to act more aggressively against hate speech in an effort toContinue Reading
What is the ethical responsibility of Jewish power?
Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound A few hours before my call with Peter Beinart, an East Jerusalem man drove into a crowd of people at a Jerusalem light rail station, killing a three-month-old baby. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas of inciting violence,Continue Reading
Our lemon of a calendar. Or is that an etrog?
By Ed Harris, Jewish Sound Columnist Whew! The cycle of major Jewish holidays has finally come to an end. The succession of celebrations and observances began with Rosh Hashanah amid a cacophony of shofar blasts, continued with the hunger-pang inducing somberness of Yom Kippur, followed by Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret and,Continue Reading
Netanyahu slams Abbas over deadly rail attack in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for the light rail attack in Jerusalem that killed a 3-month-old girl. The Prime Minister’s Office spokesman, Ofir Gendelman, on his official Twitter feed identified the driver of the car that crashed Wednesday into the AmmunitionContinue Reading
Op-Ed: Rabbis bearing witness in Ferguson
By Michael Adam Latz, JTA World News Service MINNEAPOLIS (JTA) — Early last week, national faith leaders called rabbis, pastors, priests and imams to Ferguson, Mo., a city rife with racial violence and pain. Along with my rabbinic colleagues from Truah: The Rabbinic Call for Justice, I responded to theContinue Reading
The banality of Himmler: ‘The Decent One’ goes deep but offers no answers
Boris Kurbanov, Special to The Jewish Sound Chilling and utterly compelling, Vanessa Lapa’s new documentary “The Decent One” uses narrated excerpts from a cache of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler’s letters and diaries — including those of his wife, Marga, his parents, mistress and even daughter Gudrun — to illustrateContinue Reading
Ex-Nazis were paid millions in Social Security, probe finds
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments after being forced out of the United States, an investigation by The Associated Press found. The payments were made possible by a legal loophole that gave the U.S. JusticeContinue Reading
Op-Ed: What the Freundel scandal says about Orthodoxy
By Elana Sztokman, JTA World News Service MODIIN, Israel (JTA) — With the news that Rabbi Barry Freundel, a prominent Orthodox rabbi, has been arrested for peeping at the naked bodies of his female congregants through a secret camera in the mikvah, or Jewish ritual bath, many disturbing questions areContinue Reading
Rivlin: Violence an epidemic in Israeli society
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The epidemic of violence permeates every sector of Israel, the country’s president, Reuven Rivlin, said in an address.“It is time to honestly admit that Israeli society is ill – and it is our duty to treat this disease,” Rivlin told the Israel Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesContinue Reading
Other Jewish values
You published an op-ed written by Ms. Gown and Mr. Bridge (“Fighting extremism and tolerance in Israel and Seattle,” Oct. 3), which urged action concerning the problem of gender-segregated bomb shelters in Israel during the Gaza action. In fact, based on my research, they were referring to one outrageous incidentContinue Reading
A transformative, yet ordinary, message
By Eugene Lipitz, Special to The Jewish Sound When my daughter Sophie went to Israel, one moment for her seemed a profoundly transformational experience. It wasn’t seeing the Western Wall or the huge variety of Jewish people so different from her own experience. It wasn’t even going to a venture capital meetingContinue Reading
Community screening seeks to weed out genetic diseases
By Emily K. Alhadeff, Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound For the first three months of his life, Sophie-Shifra Gold’s son, Isaac, had bad reflux. Then at four months, he was diagnosed with low muscle tone, hypotonia. At the end of April this year, Gold got an official diagnosis for herContinue Reading
Kline Galland at 100: Setting the direction for its second century
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound The day I walked into the Summit at First Hill to chat with Jeff Cohen, CEO of the Kline Galland and Affiliates Jewish senior service organization, the atmosphere was nothing like the image of the dank, infirm life I had of the KlineContinue Reading
A look back at what Kline Galland was, and now is
The Kline Galland at 100 By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound When the Caroline Kline Galland home first opened on the shores of Lake Washington in 1914, the ramshackle farmhouse held seven inmates, as they were called, all of them poor, infirm, single Jewish men with no other placeContinue Reading