By , Special to JTNews A new Jewish youth club in West Seattle will meet on Wednesday afternoons between 3:45-5:30 p.m. from Oct. 9, 2002, to June 2003. Dropoff will begin at 3:30 p.m. Programs are for ages 5-7 and 8-12 featuring arts and crafts, storytelling, snacks, singing, Jewish learningContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The Washington State Jewish Historical Society (WSJHS) invites the public to join in honoring Meta Buttnick, founder of the organization, at their annual meeting on Sept. 25. The meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S. Morgan St., Seattle. ButtnickContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Dr. David Tapper, surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, and professor and vice-chairman of surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, died at home on July 23, 2002 after a courageous battle with kidney cancer. He was 57. Dr. Tapper graduatedContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Despite Washington state’s 5 percent cut to the Caroline Kline Galland Home’s budget, the Jewish nursing home remains the No. 1 ranked nursing home in the state when it comes to delivering high-quality, long-term care for the elderly and disabled who call it home. AccordingContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews As Camp Solomon Schechter enters its 48th year of Jewish camping in the Northwest, a plan has been approved to dramatically increase the number of beds available to campers. The camp is committed to accommodating the number of youth from the Northwest who desire aContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews In a show of solidarity with the California Department of Insurance, the Washington Office of the Insurance Commissioner has filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of California’s legally besieged 1999 Holocaust Victims Insurance ReliefContinue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent What brings a prayer up off the printed page and into the heart? The voice of an inspired singer. “Lift Every Voice and Sing: Celebrating Cultures Through Song,” a unique two-concert series at Town Hall, presents inspired singers from three different Jewish religious traditions andContinue Reading

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent A local artist of Israeli origin is currently presenting a small but vibrant show on the effects of war in the Middle East. The solo show, at the Wallingford Neighborhood Office, is a visual and emotional tour of the war-torn Israeli landscape offered throughContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Herod the Great, who ruled as King of Judea beginning about a century after Judah the Maccabee made his treaty with Rome, was almost certainly an unhappy man. Not only did he order the deaths of his first wife and a number of his ownContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent “There’s a double-ness in what you hear people say about Jews and what you see written about Jews,” said Stuart Schoffman to an intimate group of 48 at a community briefing in Seattle on Feb. 13. The briefing, entitled “Israel and the Media: AnContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The wandering school has settled down again. The Seattle Jewish Community School, which has occupied four sites during its 11-year history, is now enjoying comfortable new quarters at Temple Beth Am. The growing school, which educates 95 students from kindergarten through fifth grade, hasContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis , JTNews Correspondent “This is a new passage, perhaps a turning point,” said Eran Lerman, the new director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israel/Middle East office, about the current state of Israel, when he visited Seattle on Feb. 4—5. While touring the United States, Lerman stopped inContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The Legislature won’t be pulling any financial miracles out of a hat this year, according to Jewish community advocates who say the news from Olympia is bleak. “The bad news about the budget is getting worse,” says Remy Trupin, government affairs director for theContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle is the winner of a 2002 communications award for “maintaining standards of excellence” in promoting its Night & Day for the “J” annual fund-raiser, the Jewish Community Centers of North America Association (JCCA) announced this month. TheContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Eight students from Garfield High School are currently participating in “Project: Gambia,” a collaboration of Rotary International, Computers for the World (C4W) and GambiaHELP. For the past year, the team has rebuilt, organized, packed and shipped 70 computers for impoverished schools in Gambia, West Africa.Continue Reading

By , Special to JTNews It is estimated that 10 to 20 percent of the Seattle area Jewish population lives in poverty. Between Purim and Passover this year, the Seattle Jewish Coalition for Homeless People will hold its 14th Annual Emergency Shelter Voucher Drive. The tax-deductible voucher donations are givenContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The theme for this year’s Pacific Northwest Mini-CAJE on Feb. 17 and 18, is “The Jewish Bookshelf” reflecting the vast array of scholars who make up the faculty of the Jewish learning conference sponsored by the Jewish Education Council and the Jewish Federation of GreaterContinue Reading

By Joanna Kadish, other Contrary to the basic Seattle rule, “If it’s going to snow, don’t go,” more than 140 people from across Seattle arrived at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island on the evening of Jan. 29 to hear Matthew Levitt, a former FBI analyst who participated inContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Started in 1998 as a joint venture between the Multiple Sclerosis Association of King County (MSA) and Multifaith Works, Ariel House, a communal home for people with moderate multiple sclerosis, will officially open Feb. 10. Together, the MSA and Multifaith Works have developed the firstContinue Reading