By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The largest Jewish congregation in the Pacific Northwest is struggling with the revelation that one of Seattle’s senior rabbis has embezzled funds for at least two decades. Rabbi Earl Starr, who served Temple De Hirsch Sinai for 31 years, has agreed to give upContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The Seattle woman who has helped make Jewish education so popular that people bid on learning opportunities with her at fund-raising auctions has been named the recipient of a prestigious national award. Rivy Poupko Kletenik will be one of three Jewish educators to receiveContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Volunteers and staff of the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle jokingly call their new preschool and childcare program the “seat of our pants preschool.” The name reflects the speed at which they turned disappointing news from the Stroum Jewish Community Center — thatContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Doug Rosen will be honored with the Samuel & Althea Stroum Spirit of Inspiration award at the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s annual fund-raising dinner and auction, Night & Day for the “J,” on June 23. Rosen received a B.S. degree from the University of WashingtonContinue Reading

By Michael U. Newman, other p class=“p1”>Vittorio De Sica’s extraordinary film “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” enters into a vanished world, into a circle of affluent and cultured young Italian Jews coming of age, searching for love and pleasure within the high walls of their opulent family homes during theContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent On a Thursday evening in April, the Northwest Chapter of the American Technion Society, together with Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue, sponsored a presentation by Israeli-born counterterrorism expert Dr. Sabi Shabtai that seemed more like a security briefing than a lecture. “Israel and theContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent When Eitan Rind was a toddler, just 18 months old, his mother knew something was not right: Eitan was simply not acting the way her two older children had. He did not make eye-contact the way babies normally do. He was uninterested in the worldContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews On May 28, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle presents the exclusive Seattle screening of the epic film “Exodus.” The film has been remastered with enhanced sound and color for its 40th Anniversary World Tour. Originally released in 1961, “Exodus” will be shown in SeattleContinue Reading

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By Howard Sibelman, other My wife, my daughter and I went to Israel last month on a week-long mission sponsored by United Jewish Communities, the Jewish Federation movement. We extended our visit three days so we could visit more of the country than provided for by the mission itinerary. AtContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Greater Seattle B’nai B’rith Community Service Foundation is honoring Patty Stonesifer, president and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at their annual Champion of Youth Dinner, to take place May 19 at the Elliott Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seattle. “Patty Stonesifer exemplifies B’naiContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews On June 2, the Seattle Jewish Community School will hold its 10th auction at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and Towers. In addition to being a fun and entertaining event (John Curley, host of KING 5 Television’s “Evening Magazine,” will be master of ceremonies), the schoolContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Jewish Family Life Education, the educational arm of Jewish Family Service, invites members of the Jewish community to attend an in-depth exploration and examination of one’s Jewish identity through a nontraditional method, “Theatre of the Oppressed,” on May 19. Marc Weinblatt, the featured presenter, willContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Relationships between science and art, Seattle and Israel, and the Fred Hutchinson Center Research Center and the Weizmann Institute came together recently on the University of Washington campus. At a gala event on April 11, the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Committee for theContinue Reading

By Deloris Tarzan Ament, other Eighty percent of college-age Jews continue their education after high school. It’s a critical time in their lives, an age when they’re searching for meaning. Many of them have only scant information about their Jewish heritage. College years are the last chance to give JewishContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent “I was just thinking of something that symbolizes dual heritage, and I thought Wallenberg was an outstanding example: There’s a large Scandinavian community in Seattle and there’s a growing Jewish community.” That’s how State Sen. Ken Jacobsen (D-46) recalled his idea for holding an annualContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Honoring Tom O’Keefe, founder of Seattle-based Tully’s Coffee, with its 2002 Torch of Liberty Award was a natural choice for the Pacific Northwest Region of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Tully’s Coffee and the ADL partnered on this year’s Reducing Adolescent Prejudice (R.A.P.) Conference which includedContinue Reading

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By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As the once vibrant economy in Argentina collapses, members of Washington’s Jewish community are exploring what they can do to help the community of more than 200,000 Jews. In February, the Jewish Federations of North America pledged $40 million through the end of 2002 toContinue Reading