By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Marsha Rivkin died from ovarian cancer in 1993. Marsha’s family — husband Saul Rivkin and her five da

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As a new Certified Senior Advisor, Janis Blauer-Chima has learned about what seniors go through as they get

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent The midday sun warmed the children by the pond while dancers danced and musicians played on the nearby hillsi

By Britten Schear, Special to JTNews “I know these are onions because it says so on the sign,” Rachel Bravmann-Bevens tells me as we walk through t

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent After more than two years of suspense, 18 months of construction and $127 million, Seattle’s Marion Ol

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By Deborah Ashin, JTNews Correspondent Three ordinary bowls, one enamel, two aluminum. To see them on a shelf or in someone’s attic, they wou

By Emily Moore, JTNews Correspondent How do you begin to explore a cuisine whose geographic area is at least a dozen times the size of France, incl

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent With the exception of the modern, lightweight tents, and the setting up of camp in a parking lot, and the

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent One of the single most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis has been the Jewish settlements.

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent The Seattle Association for Jews with Disabilities has had a very tough year. In addition to rising health

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By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down California’s Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act as

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Seattle-based Jewish Family Service has recently received a large grant from Mazon: A Jewish Response to H

By Robert Shay, JTNews Correspondent Due to the copious amount of new films released on home video this past month, I am going to forego the regula

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent Maybe it was the wrestling. Or perhaps it was the use of birdcalls to recite a poem. Whatever it was that t

By Kristine Israelson and Thomas F. Klein, Special to JTNews In January, a 40-foot shipping container laden with more than 10 tons of gifts set sai

By Joel Magalnick, JTNews Correspondent When the news from Israel is often so depressing, it’s nice to have a visitor to the area who has som

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent While driving along the freeway in rural Outlook, Wash., a Star of David displayed on the outside of an adob

By Deborah Ashin, Special to JTNews With its roots in mysticism and meditation, Tiferet is a Jewish vocal ensemble that defies musical classificati