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By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Conductor Asher Fisch is in Seattle to conduct Wagner’s Lohengrin for Seattle Opera. Maestro Fisch

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent

By Martin Jaffee, JTNews Correspondent Has anyone heard of Horace Miner? He was a professor of anthropology whose main claim to fame, as far as I k

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Israelis today live in straw huts and travel from city to city by camel. At least that’s the picture that s

By , JTNews Correspondent Cantor David Serkin-Poole and his partner Michael have their rings picked out, but they won’t be able to stand befo

By Joshua Rosenstein, Special to JTNews This is the second in a series about life between Israeli Jews and Arabs living outside of the territories

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Although he now says that his own life is very content, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., former CEO of Distillers Corpora

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Though Jack Spitzer’s heart made him so well-known and liked in Seattle and around the world, it is also wh

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Dave Ross is a runner. As of now he is on leave from his popular radio talk show to make a pitch for the D

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Major changes have been made at Seattle’s Rainier AZA chapter of the B’nai Brith Youth Organizat

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Holocaust memories haunt in Intiman Theatre’s world premiere production of Singing Forest, by Craig L

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews A painful chapter in the history of Seattle’s largest congregation has come to a close. On July 16, Temple

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent This summer, 18-year-old poet Elsa Pollack, a recent graduate of The Center School, is finishing up a busy y

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Recorded in Seattle’s Benaroya Hall last December, and released in time for its May 10 premiere per

By Dan Aznoff, Special to JTNews Like “Cheers,” the fictional neighborhood tavern in Boston, the Jewish community in West Seattle has f

By Jacqueline B. Williams, Special to JTNews Editor’s note: As part of our 80th anniversary, JTNews will publish occasional articles about Wa

By Talia Schmidt, other Katie Edelstein says her life hasn’t changed much since she donated her kidney. It’s only gotten better. At a

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Columnist My daughter returned from Israel, and like many visitors she brought back gifts. She presented me with a