By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Lina Filiba gave a look of surprise when a member of Seattle’s Jewish community greeted her in her native T

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “Take a deep breath. Okay. Here we go,” said filmmaker Ziggy Livnat just before showing his unde

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent To help kids with special needs, Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky and his wife Esther started a Friendship Circle in

By Britten Schear, JTNews Correspondent Switching on government-run Egyptian television in November of 2002, one might have joined the millions of

By Laurie Warshal Cohen and Miriam Greenbaum, Special to JTNews On April 18, the greater Seattle community is invited to an important program in me

By Dan Aznoff, JTNews Correspondent It was a move that was meant to be. That’s what members of Olympia’s Temple Beth Hatfiloh are sayi

By Martin Jaffee, JTNews Correspondent It was like Y2K all over again. All the hype surrounding the recent Mel Gibson exravaganza created apocalypt

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent It took until the last minute, but Washington’s state legislature went on record to ask for more hel

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Area Jewish day schools will be trying to do more with less next year as a result of a drop in funding fro

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent After her mother died of multiple sclerosis more than a year ago, Wiebke Light discovered a new way to expre

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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews With our second annual Passover wine tasting, we have once again proven that our choices of fine wine don’t

By Dan Aznoff, Special to JTNews Despite all the rhetoric surrounding affairs of state, the political landscape across America has really not chang

By Britten Schear, JTNews Correspondent Do you know a Trendsetter? JT Trendsetters focuses on members of the local Jewish community under 35 that a

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By Remy Trupin, Special to JTNews Why does the Federation advocate in Olympia? For the past eight years, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When the fight for same-sex marriage came to Washington State on the morning of March 8, one Jewish couple steppe

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent FenomenA, a new company dedicated to bringing international art and culture to Seattle, will present more th

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent With the American Jewish Committee’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival just days away — it runs from March

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent While the Seattle Hebrew Academy has put a lot of effort into thanking people for supporting its future, th