By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews For 30 minutes on Tuesday, April 30, a large cross-section of the greater Seattle Jewish community — from across the political, religious and demographic spectrums — gathered together in support of Israel. About halfway through the downtown rally in support of Israel and America’sContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Pledges to the 2002 Jewish Federation Community Campaign totaled a little over $10 million, fund-raising chair Iantha Sidell announced at the end of April. The leap past last year’s $9.2 million achievement was mostly attributed to a successful extra fund-raising effort to collect emergencyContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Memories, anecdotes and oral histories of lifetimes lived by Jewish seniors in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area are being recorded and published by Northwest Yeshiva High School students so that generations will have their histories preserved. In its first year at the highContinue Reading

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By Lauren Segal, Special to JTNews The Seattle Chapter of Hadassah will honor life member and long-time philanthropist Althea Stroum at the Gala for Giving: A Salute to Heroes on Thursday, May 9, 2002, at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel. Originally from New York City, Althea was drawn by theContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent You are cordially invited to a wedding at The Evergreen State College in Olympia…. What’s more, it’s a Jewish “ceremony,” with bride in white and groom beneath a chupah, a rabbi officiating and more than 90 guests holding hands and dancing the horah around theContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent On March 12, about 360 students, teachers and facilitators attended the Reducing Adolescent Prejudice (RAP) conference, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, the Seattle Human Rights Commission and Tully’s Coffee. About 35 schools participated from such places as Seattle, Tacoma, Snohomish, Kitsap, Peninsula, Puyallup andContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent With so many glowing memories of Julie Mirel singing from the bimah, Tacoma’s Temple Beth El is preparing to bid a warm farewell to the cantorial soloist, who retires from her position in June after nine years of service. Mirel will be honored at aContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Anyone entering Kane Hall to hear Dr. William Quandt’s lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict at the University of Washington in March had to undergo a mildly intrusive security check before they could get settled in their seats. Quandt’s presentation, “Can the U.S. Revive the PeaceContinue Reading

By Sharon Altaras, Special to JTNews “It’s a source of extreme frustration to me that we tend to learn from murders,” Daniel Pipes said to a packed audience last week in the University of Washington’s Kane Hall. His speech, which was sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, wasContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent For the third time in a month, the Jewish community will gather en masse next week for a rally in support of Israel, on Tuesday, April 30, in front of the Federal Building in downtown Seattle. On April 17, balloons adorned Herzl-Ner Tamid on MercerContinue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent While the grown-ups in our community scramble to support Israel with rallies, solidarity missions, letters to editors and dollars, our children are doing their part as well. Children at schools and synagogues all over the community are reaching out to people in Israel. At theContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews There will be three new faces in community leadership this summer, when the new director of the Stroum Jewish Community Center, the new head of the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle and the new senior rabbi of Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation arrive. InContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Scheduled for April 12-14 at Camp Solomon Schechter in Olympia, the 12th Annual Jewish Single Parent Family Retreat promises to be another fun and engaging weekend. This is a popular and well-received program that encourages returning families, as well as welcomes new families. This year’sContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The video, “The Sephardim and the Pike Place Market” is a visual and oral record of Sephardic vendors who have occupied stalls in the public market. The Washington State Jewish Historical Society invites the community to view this video and hear a panel discussion onContinue Reading

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By , Special to JTNews Professor Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, will deliver the three Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures for 2002, which will be held in Kane Hall 220 at 7 p.m. on May 6, 8 and 13. The overarching title ofContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews “Many Voices, One Song” is a musical celebration of spiritual and ethnic diversity benefiting Multifaith Works, an organization that provides support for people living with AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. The concert will take place on Thursday, April 25, at 7 p.m. in the SeattleContinue Reading

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