By Louis Wald , Special to JTNews Since I was a child, I had had the wish to travel to Poland with my parents, and see their native country with th

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent For Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, the High Holidays will be extra special this fall: after going for a y

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent When late-night radio talk show host Erin Hart was offered the chance to visit Israel, she jumped at the ch

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By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent This list was compiled with the help of Don Hood and Graham Shutt, booksellers and well-read intellectuals at

By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent A number of recently published children’s books provide fun for kids and parents as they learn about J

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By Diana Brement, JTNews Correspondent It is the greatest story every told, and there’s always a new angle or twist to explore. In The Miracl

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By Emily Moore, JTNews Correspondent Jews love fish. They have always loved and honored the place fish has held in the culture. Many old, beloved J

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Film critic and talk-radio host Michael Medved joined his wife and co-author Diane for a recent pubic appe

By Louis Pasek, Special to JTNews Thirty-four teens from the Stroum Jewish Community Center will be representing Washington State in this yearR

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By Louis Pasek, Special to JTNews The talk, called “Reporting Back From Palestine,” occurred June 25 at a small gathering place near Seattle Center

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent The rabbinical student knows all about surviving domestic violence. So does the housewife, who, for the fir

By Rita Weinstein, JTNews Correspondent Congressman and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) made several stops in Seattle July 18 and 19

By Naomi Pfefferman, other LOS ANGELES — “I’m a ‘Marx Brothers anarchist,’” filmmaker Jordan Susman said. “It’s the sense of havi

By Victor Wishna, Special to JTNews Most Bar Mitzvah boys have to settle for fountain pens and savings bonds. When Adam Levy became a man at 13, ho

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent For as long as people have been able to communicate, there have been storytellers. Language may not have

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent In 1945, almost 60 years ago, Jewish nurse Edith Heinemann Harris met Maxine Haynes, the first African Ameri