By , Special to JTNews The Women’s Endowment Foundation celebrated a “decade of giving” last month when it announced three grants at its 2001 annual meeting. The grants — $8,200 for teen outreach by Project Dvorah of Jewish Family Service; $8,200 to the National Council of Jewish Women’s Shalom BayitContinue Reading

By Abigail Brown, Special to JTNews On Sunday, May 20, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life at the University of Washington hosted “The Red Carpet Affair: A Showcase of Excellence,” an honorary dinner at the historic University Tower Hotel. The dinner included an Academy Awards—style presentation that highlighted severalContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Mildred Rosenbaum wasn’t exactly sure what she had done to deserve entrance to such an interesting gathering, but she was excited to be part of the Jewish Women’s Archive meeting last month on Mercer Island. Despite Rosenbaum’s modesty, her life story was her ticketContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Even Gov. Gary Locke found it difficult to take a serious approach to his speech saluting the 2001 First Citizen, Herb Bridge, at a dinner in his honor last week. “Some members of our community are wholly unique,” the governor said, after noting theContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent When Ben Rigberg’s wife came to Walla Walla as a visiting assistant professor at Whitman College in 1998—99, he started wondering how such a small Jewish community in such a Christian area could survive for so many years. This led Rigberg, a retired professor whoContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Rabbi H. David Rose, spiritual leader of Herzl-Ner Tamid Congregation for 15 of the past 18 years, said good-bye last week with a good feeling in his heart. “Seattle has been wonderful to me. It’s a wonderful place. I’ve felt myself grow as theContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Thanks to Rep. Laura Ruderman and other Jewish legislators who consider the Kline Galland Home part of their constituency, the Legislature pulled a rabbit out of its hat for the Jewish community as it packed its bags to leave Olympia two weeks ago. TheContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews More than 50 people gathered at Temple B’nai Torah, May 6 to hear and participate in an interactive scientific presentation entitled, “Making Sense of the Senses.” The presenter, Dr. Moshe Rishpon, is the mastermind behind the Clore Garden of Science at the Weizmann Institute ofContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent More than 250 films from over 50 countries will be presented in the Seattle International Film Festival, May 24—June 17, including several with Jewish content. “Divided We Fall” Czech Republic, 2000, 117 minutes Set in the last years of WWII in a small Czechoslovakian town,Continue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard is hosting this month a show of photographs documenting Nazi concentration camps and death camps and sites related to the Holocaust in Denmark and Europe. The show, “A World of Terror,” features the work of Seattle-based photographer Rudy Brueggemann,Continue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Council House director by day and performer at night, Stephen Mitchell uses his creativity to make life for retirees entertaining. He recently brought a busload of Council House residents to see the play “South Pacific” at Civic Light Opera, in which he portrayed the leadingContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Because the world may never know everything there is to know about the Holocaust, events like the Raoul Wallenberg Dinner at the Nordic Heritage Museum continue to offer relevant scholarship in an attempt to gain more understanding. This year’s dinner featured Steven Koblik, internationally recognizedContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Rabbi Shoshanah Devorah, newly ordained from Aleph: The Alliance For Jewish Renewal, has moved to Seattle from Boulder, Colo., to join the staff of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance as a chaplain working exclusively with transplant patients. A joint venture of three of Seattle’s world- classContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent From Chasidism to Orthodoxy, from Reform to Jewish Renewal, the Jewish instinct to evolve and renew itself has led scholars and religious leadership to construct a “post-traditional” template for the modern Jew. Within this template, many are witnessing a blurring of the lines that usedContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent One or more students at The Evergreen State College in Olympia will receive sanctions for drawing an offensive cartoon and slipping it under another student’s door. The incident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, at a campus dormitory. Two students, one African-AmericanContinue Reading

By Gigi Yellen-Kohn, JTNews Correspondent In 1995, at the age of 49, Jeffrey Akrish was forced to retire from his family business, Market House Corned Beef, because he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, heart failure from an unexplained cause, and given six months to live unless he received a heart transplant.Continue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent Olympia’s Temple Beth Hatfiloh, unaffiliated since its founding in 1937, became Washington state’s only Reconstructionist synagogue on May 7, when its application for membership to the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation was unanimously approved by that organization’s board of directors. “I think we have taken a reallyContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Tickets for the 63rd annual Seattle—King County First Citizen Awards banquet are now available. Seattle native Herbert (“Herb”) M. Bridge, this year’s recipient, will be honored at a public ceremony on May 30 at the Westin Hotel in Seattle. Family, military officers, fellow business leaders,Continue Reading

By , Special to JTNews The Northwest Jewish Environmental Project (NWJEP) commemorated Earth Day by implementing environmental education and awareness programs at the Jewish Day School and Seattle Jewish Community School. The programs were aimed at promoting awareness of global warming with fourth and fifth graders and teaching them whatContinue Reading