By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent No one can really say for sure whether or not being a Jewish mother is any different than being any other “brand” of mother, but Jewish mothers of newborns say they can use all the help they can get. Starting in October 2002, three EastsideContinue Reading

By Eric Schinfeld, other The Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation of the Greater Seattle is looking forward to a pretty standard year for their 2002-2003 season. That is, if you consider standard two of the biggest Jewish women’s events in the area, several high profile speakers and a hostContinue Reading

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By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent One of the things he finds most surprising about the changing situation in the Middle East conflict, said Steve Rosen, director of Foreign Policy Issues Department for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), is that George W. Bush has adopted essentially the same conclusionsContinue Reading

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By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Even at the age of two, it was evident that Ari Grashin was a sports enthusiast. He would grab the TV remote and channel surf on the tube right up until he reached a station with sports on it. Since then, he has played baseball,Continue Reading

By Hally Jackson, Special to JTNews After two decades as executive director at the JCC, Gary Pollock is pitching for a new team, The Moyer Foundation. “There were a number of opportunities, both Jewish communal and corporate, which came my way. After meeting with [Mariner’s pitcher] Jamie and Karen MoyerContinue Reading

By Rita Weinstein, Special to JTNews From Temple B’nai Torah’s beginnings in 1968, conducting services with a small Torah rescued from the Holocaust, through rebuilding after a devastating arson fire in 1977, TBT has led a diverse Jewish community to a place of leadership in Western Washington. Now, as theContinue Reading

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By Iantha Sidell and Neil Ross, Special to JTNews Showing solidarity with the people of Israel during a critical time, we joined more than 100 lay and professional leaders from more than 40 Jewish communities across North America on the United Jewish Communities’ (UJC) Annual Campaign Chairmen and Directors Mission,Continue Reading

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By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews This summer marks the 100th anniversary of Jewish camping in North America. The Foundation for Jewish Camping even sent out a big press packet about this momentous occasion. Start a conversation with a kid at Camp Solomon Schechter, however, and centennials are the farthestContinue Reading

By Joshua Rosenstein, JTNews Correspondent When recent Jewish Day School grad Joshua Niehaus left Seattle for a year in Israel on Hadassah’s Young Judaea program, he was expecting to have fun, meet girls and party. “I wasn’t even afraid,” says Niehaus. “I was just going to be a spectator, watchingContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Dr. Bob Fineman has been to Israel six times. In 1999, he slept in a military barracks and cleaned army vehicles, from jeeps and trucks, all the way up to tanks, and weapons ranging from M-16s to mortars. This spring he went back for anotherContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews When Jay Rosenbaum’s dad made a mid-life change from the world of advertising to become a rabbi, the kids used to tease him — he didn’t change careers, he just got a new employer. Rabbi Nathan Rosenbaum was the spiritual leader of Temple BethContinue Reading

By Joshua Rosenstein, other Twelve and a half years after Tikvah House opened, the Seattle Association for the Jewish Disabled (SAJD) will be closing its group home for adults with developmental disabilities. In its place the SAJD is launching a new program called the Independent Living Project (ILP) in whichContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent For Jewish playwright Sharyn Shipley, this year’s Mae West Fest is an opportunity to produce the premiere of a play written especially for her mother. Her one-act joins a collection of 26 other new works by female writers, dancers, poets, performance artists and musicians, inContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent “The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color” (working title), a new four-part series produced by Seattle’s public broadcasting station, KCTS, will combine previously unseen color film from the 1930s and 1940s with passages from diaries and letters of American soldiers and their lovedContinue Reading

By Karen Treiger, Special to JTNews As we wound our way up through the mountains in the desert landscape, we could almost imagine that we were ascending the hills of Jerusalem. But that was not the case. We were in the Cascade Mountains on our way to Sun River, Ore.Continue Reading