By Manny Frishberg , JTNews Correspondent When Rabbi Arik Ascherman was growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania in the 1960s and ‘70s, it’s unlikely

By Cynthia Flash, Special to JTNews The way Merle Griff sees it, a new giving program offered by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle allows th

By Rivy Poupko Kletenik, JTNews Correspondent Dear Rivy, My fiancé and I are trying to find a date to get married this summer. It seems that no ma

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By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent It’s a name more associated with business than with show business, but when Highway 99, Seattle’

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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Judea Pearl is a man bent on revenge. Two years ago, his son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, was murd

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Though bidding a fond farewell upon their graduation, students at the Community High School of Jewish Studie

By Martin Jaffee, JTNews Columnist It so happens that I can sing about a half dozen Christmas carols in German. How many of you out there know the

By Martin Jaffee, JTNews Columnist

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent With a global focus, the 30th Annual Seattle International Film Festival will showcase over 300 feature film

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Jewish kids in grades one through six will have the opportunity this summer to participate in Camp Maccabiah

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Alan Dershowitz said recent revelations about prisoner abuse in Bahgdad’s Abu Ghraib prison have 

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent The past year has been a strong one for Bainbridge Island’s Congregation Kol Shalom. The Reform syna

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Ambassador Dennis Ross is one of the best-known faces in Middle East diplomacy. He has spent hour after hour

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent When King County Democrats voted to put an anti-Israel amendment into its platform on Saturday, it caused a

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Though much more crowded than usual, Seward Park was the Jewish community’s place to be on Sunday. &

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Two Jewish entrepreneurs around Seattle have recently started their own businesses to put life histories on

By Melissa Marlowe, JTNews Correspondent He has been spotlighted in the press, called the “Bill Gates of Urology,” and has been describ

By Melissa Marlowe, JTNews Correspondent