By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Dr. Feng Shan Ho, Chinese consul general in Vienna on the eve of the Second World War, is credited with providing Austrian Jews with visas to Shanghai, enabling them to escape Nazi persecution and survive the Holocaust. Ho is honored at the Wing Luke AsianContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent OLYMPIA — Anti-Defamation League—inspired bills targeting hate groups and others that commit violent civil disturbances passed committees of both houses of the state Legislature on Tuesday. HB2505, introduced by Rep. Al O’Brien (D-Mountlake Terrace) passed the House Criminal Justice and Corrections Committee by a 7-0Continue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva High School’s Annual Dinner will take place Feb. 17 at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel in Seattle. Each year at the Annual Dinner, the Yeshiva honors those who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of Jewish education in the community. ThisContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews For the past 13 years, the Seattle Jewish Coalition for the Homeless has been holding a winter toy and book drive. Although the drive has been successful from the giving point of view, it has become less well received by the beneficiary agencies. That’s becauseContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent For the past 10 years, the Seattle Kollel, or universal community, has been offering Jewish learning for every level with a focus on starting where the students are. The eight current rabbis and teachers of the Seattle Kollel bring their own sense of humor, compassionContinue Reading

By Amy Shafron, Special to JTNews The JDS Annual Dinner and Auction on Sunday, March 10, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel will pay tribute to the memory of Herb Rosen and honor his family, Rita Rosen, Stan and Michele Rosen and Judy and Krijn de Jonge. The award was createdContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews B’nai B’rith International has given Dina Siegel Vann, Latin American affairs director in its Center for Public Policy, a second assignment — heading its activities at the United Nations. “Dina Siegel Vann possesses the necessary professional experience, education and personal background to carry out thisContinue Reading

By Rebecca Lackman, Special to JTNews The Seattle Jewish Film Festival returns for its seventh year this spring, but during a different week. The April 20—28 festival presented by the American Jewish Committee should once again be the cinematic celebration of arts, culture and history that the community looks forwardContinue Reading

By Charlene Freadman Kahn, JTNews Correspondent Volunteer social service programs are set up to provide assistance to those in need — but as so often happens, the benefit and the value frequently extend across the line to the volunteer caregiver. Such is the case with Multifaith Works and its CareTeamContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent As part of an annual program to promote tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe, the Seattle chapter of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) hosted a weekend visit by three delegates from the former Soviet Union, Romania and Hungary, last month. About 12 to 15 delegatesContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Jewish power in America and the role of women now and in the past was the focus of the Jan. 14 Connections dinner, a fund-raiser for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Although Jews have achieved power in America, “we are in danger as well,”Continue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Albert Joseph Maimon needs to grow some big shoulders pretty fast. That’s the only way this little baby will be able to carry all the responsibility and honor he inherited at birth. Not only was little Albert the first Jewish baby born in theContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The Bainbridge Island Police Dept. is confident that the person responsible for three anti-Semitic mailings to local residents last summer has already been apprehended. Police Chief Bill Cooper confirmed last Friday that his department has closed its investigation of the incidents after concluding that theContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Tax reform — read: raising taxes — may be the only way out of the state’s perpetual budget struggle, both advocates of the Jewish community in Olympia are saying as the Legislature prepares to get back to work on Monday. “It’s time to thinkContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The American Society for Technion—Israel Institute of Technology (ATS) announces the appointment of Wendy Rosen, as its new Northwest Chapter Director. Rosen comes to the ATS with a background in fund-raising and recruiting in the Seattle community. “This is a very exciting time for theContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The stage at the Stroum Jewish Community Center will light up this January with a play performed by kids in the JCC’s Spotlight Youth Theater program. Robin Wehl, director of youth and family services, decided to revive Spotlight after witnessing firsthand the success of theContinue Reading

By Amy Wasser-Simpson, other On the last Sunday in December 2001, a small group of dedicated volunteers from the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) met at a warehouse in Redmond, where the household goods they have been collecting through generous donations are held. Loading up a delivery van withContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Not all heroes are exciting. Not everyone can be a firefighter rushing into a collapsing tower. For some, just going to work and doing their job can be a form of heroism, not because of the threats or roadblocks thrown up before them, but simplyContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent As the baby-boom generation has aged, we’ve discovered death whether by facing up to our own mortality as a middle-aged rite-of-passage or needing to confront our own parents’ end-of-life decisions. For Alberta Golden, helping people learn about what choices they have when they near theContinue Reading