By Dr. Honey McSugarfried, Special to JTNews Everyone knows that Matzoh Brei is eaten sweet. There are plenty of symbolic Jewish foods that are salty to remind us of tragedies such as the destruction of the temple or the disappearance of Kozmo.com, but this is not one of them. MatzohContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Nowhere in Africa Seattle premiere Germany, 2002, 141 min. German with subtitles Caroline Link, Director Based on the best-selling autobiographical novel by Stephanie Zweig, the Academy-Award winning Nowhere in Africa is narrated by Regina (Karoline Eckertz and Lea Kurka), a young girl whose German JewishContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Joshua Slotnick has the military in his blood. “He is the product of soldiers,” said his father, Jeff Slotnick of Tacoma. “He is the product of soldiers,” said his father, Jeff Slotnick of Tacoma. Both of Joshua’s grandfathers served in the Korean War. His motherContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Amen France, 2002 Constantin Costa-Gavras, Director The great Japanese film director Akira Kurasawa once said that if he could explain what his movies were about in a few words, he would scrawl them on a placard instead of making the film. Constantin Costa-Gavras has neverContinue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent Doron Raphaely wanted to create a Seattle jazz and blues club that would not be about food or a fashionable location, but strictly about the music. So he named it About The Music. Tucked away near Boeing Field in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood, in the historicContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent While the United States fights a war with Iraq, a play has opened that is particularly poignant. From the author of Driving Miss Daisy, Taproot Theatre presents Alfred Uhry’s comedy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo. The play is set in Atlanta in 1939, as theContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews After only three years on the job, Jewish Day School’s Rabbi Stuart Light, the Director of Judaic Studies, has received two awards for his school. The awards were given to Rabbi Light earlier this year at the Jewish Education Assembly, a conference of Conservative-movement educators.Continue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent In a season marked by war, the upcoming concert by Music of Remembrance carries special importance. On Sunday, April 27, MOR commemorates Yom HaShoah with “An Unsilenced Music.” The concert features the world premiere of “Fathers” by Lori Laitman, a song cycle based on poemsContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When the eighth grade students at Jewish Day School discussed class projects, they decided upon one that includes the entire community. Several ideas were tossed around, but they settled upon the idea of having their fellow students express their thoughts on Jewish people who haveContinue Reading

By David Klinghoffer, other MERCER ISLAND (JTA) — As I got to work clearing the house of leaven and preparing for seders, I couldn’t help noticing that the war in Iraq has coincided with the weeks leading up to Passover. The coincidence is eerily appropriate. Jewish tradition teaches that PassoverContinue Reading

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By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Ah, the signs of spring! The flowers and the bees, the birds in the trees — and Blintzapalooza at Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia. According to organizer Linda Blustein, this year’s festivities on March 30th had hungry blintz lovers lined up around the block. TheContinue Reading

By Deborah Ashin, JTNews Correspondent Private art lessons are generally not an option for the children at Dunlap Elementary School. Almost 85 percent are on the state’s free and reduced lunch program, and the school, located in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, doesn’t even have a PTA. That’s whereContinue Reading

By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews When 15-year-old Israeli girl Adi Houja was injured in a suicide bombing in 2001, she thought she was going to die. The nuts and bolts that were soaked in rat poison and packed into the bomb severely injured her legs. Today she is alive, thoughContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent The unorthodox nature of electoral politics in Israel produced unusual results, netting a predictably unpredictable conclusion, according to Judy Lash Balint, a freelance writer from Seattle currently living in Jerusalem. A freelance writer, Balint contributes articles to theMatzav.com, an unsponsored, non-political Web site that sinceContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent About two dozen volunteer tutors, who are helping to make sure that “no child is left behind,” greeted Seattle Schools Superintendent Joseph Olchefske at an informal reception, March 29. The tutors are all part of the “Study Buddy” program, sponsored by the Jewish Federation ofContinue Reading

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