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By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Anyone who has paid attention to the surveys talking about declining Jewish populations has obviously not spent any time in Seattle lately. By our count, no fewer than seven Jewish babies have entered the world since just before the start of the new year. HereContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Set in Israel, Eitan Gorlin’s new controversial movie The Holy Land follows young rabbinical student Menachem “Mendy” Weinbaum, who is distracted by thoughts of sex . Quoting an obscure passage from the Talmud, a rabbi advises Mendy to visit a prostitute to “get it outContinue Reading

By Emily Moore, JTNews Correspondent Making wonderful kosher meals has always been a creative endeavor, sometimes involving taking non-kosher (or dairy) recipes and re-working them to fit the kosher culinary need of the day. In this column, I’m going to explore a few perhaps new ideas with you and shareContinue Reading

By Britten Schear, Special to JTNews Michael Sendrow’s new play, Well Of Life, is about a maternity hospital; it is composed of an all-female cast. It does not have any death, any war scenes, or any outward struggles between good and evil. What makes it unusual is that the playContinue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent An actor. A set. Props. Not your usual chamber music concert. Music of Remembrance breaks out of the traditional mold to begin its sixth season with an acclaimed music-drama — “Through Roses” by Marc Neikrug — featuring actor John Rubinstein, best known to TV audiencesContinue Reading

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By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Naming it “Magneev,” a Hebrew slang word meaning “great,” co-owners Deborah Simonds and Judy Willson have high expectations for their new Judaica store at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island. The shop opens Nov. 2. The two are leasing 500 square feet ofContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent In every generation, the young seek to distinguish themselves as a group and form an independent identity, while the elders bemoan the state of their descendants and worry about continuity and society’s fate. This is no less so in Seattle’s Jewish community — where justContinue Reading

By Deborah Ashin, JTNews Correspondent Who would expect a Hadassah meeting to be X-rated? Get a group of Jewish women together to talk about food, and it can happen. “Women bond over food the way men bond over sports,” author Sharon Boorstin told over 100 women at this year’s kickoffContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Even before the stars took the stage September 21, an almost electric sense of excitement flowed through the sell-out crowd at the new McCaw Hall, in the shadow of the Space Needle. The set was simple: a pair of wicker-back chairs flanking a small roundContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent While the widely covered Nuremberg Trials prosecuted and convicted those leaders who gave the orders to torture and murder millions in the Holocaust, they were not the only trials at the end of World War II to do so. The overshadowed Dachau Trials were prosecutedContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Paul Krugman is either one of the wisest heads to be giving out his opinions on a regular basis or one of the most obnoxious examples of the East Coast media’s liberal bias, depending upon the side of the political spectrum from which you viewContinue Reading

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By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Seattle Hebrew Academy was one of three organizations recognized on Sept. 16 at former President Bill Clinton’s address, “Embracing Our Humanity: Global Security in the 21st Century,” in which a crowd of about 2,800 filled the seats of Seattle’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall. People whoContinue Reading

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By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Shows of Jewish interest this year in the 13th Annual Seattle Fringe Festival range from a hip-hop duo to several solo shows. The longest running fringe festival in the United States, the Seattle Fringe Festival includes 94 theater companies in about 500 performances. The festivalContinue Reading

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By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent When students at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle showed up for their first day of classes a couple weeks ago, the smiling face from behind the desk of head-of-school was a new — but familiar — one. John Zito, former assistant head-of-school andContinue Reading