By Aryeh Young, Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva 70, Puget Sound Adventist 68 After a heart-breaking overtime loss to Seattle Academy, the 613 JV boys were hungry for a victory. Fighting a press the entire game, the 613s were tired early on and had trouble keeping up with Puget Sound’sContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Northwest Yeshiva 63, Puget Sound Adventist 40 The Northwest Yeshiva girls’ varsity came up big as they made their annual February visit to the Shark tank on Feb. 6. The Sharks scored the first four points of the game. Yeshiva then went on a 14—5Continue Reading

By Rosie Leutzinger, Special to JTNews When University of Washington senior Jeremy Berman met current freshman teammate Michael Rubin, he welcomed him as he has all new members of the tennis team during his four-year career. There was just one thing different he needed to know. “Are you Jewish?” BermanContinue Reading

By Josefin Kannin, Special to JTNews “There’s nowhere to go and nothing to do.” Sound familiar? It’s one of the common laments of teenagers on a Saturday night. Sure, there are movies and malls, but what about an inexpensive place for teens to hang out with their friends, listen toContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Jewish community leaders feel so strongly that a trip to Israel should be part of every Jewish child’s education that they have set aside $1,200 to enable your child to make the trip. Through the Milk and Honey Gift of Israel Partnership, which began inContinue Reading

By Sharon K. Gang, Special to JTNews Israeli papercut artist Yehudit Shadur’s work is based on a simple technique familiar to all children: cutting a folded piece of paper to produce a symmetrical design once the sheet is opened. “I start a new papercut by creating the design on aContinue Reading

By Jenny Brown, Special to JTNews While a strong line-up of movies is the foundation of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, what makes this program unique is the way it tackles topics of importance to the Jewish community. The film festival presented by the American Jewish Committee is a keyContinue Reading

By David Chesanow, JTNews Correspondent The Seattle area is home to few kosher eateries, and the reason is numbers, says Rabbi Yitzchok Gallor, a kosher inspector for Va’ad HaRabanim (Board of Rabbis) of Greater Seattle, the regional kosher-certification agency. “The problem with restaurants and kosher is that the local JewishContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Now about a quarter of the way through, the pace in the Legislative session is beginning to pick up, with committees holding hearings on bills of interest to the Jewish community. According to Remy Trupin, government affairs associate for the Jewish Federation, committees areContinue Reading

By Manny Frishberg, JTNews Correspondent Israel’s top aviation writers came to Seattle at the end of January to get a close look at the latest jets to join the El Al fleet. The Israeli journalists, joined by half a dozen members of the American Jewish press, spent three days visitingContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Seattle native Gussie Stusser was so excited to move into her new apartment at The Summit, the Kline Galland Center’s new retirement apartments on First Hill, that she insisted on moving in on opening day and spent her first night there without any neighbors.Continue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Since 1926, Hadassah and the Jewish National Fund have partnered together to address the environmental concerns facing Israel. Just as water is a basic element of nature and an essential to human survival, water is key for the land of Israel. The current water crisisContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Home Care Associates, a new program offered by Jewish Family Service to help the elderly and disabled in their homes with personal care and light chores, began its first month of operation in January. The licensed program, under the direction of Lorene Armes, ACSW, wasContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews This year’s Jewish Day School annual dinner and auction is set for Sunday, March 11, 2001, at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. Co-chairs Judy Swenson and Shannon Kahn, and more than 50 other volunteers, are hoping to surpass last year’s fund-raising achievement of $250,000. This year’sContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Marcia Horwitz welcomed more than 70 people on Jan. 9 to the first women’s health forum sponsored by both the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Hutchinson Center. Horwitz said the Weizmann Institute is one of the world’s foremost centers ofContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent It will only take about 20 to 30 minutes on Feb. 11 to possibly save a life. Between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. community members are invited to drop by Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill to donate a sample of blood that couldContinue Reading

By Jenny Brown, Special to JTNews The movies have been around for only a century, which is a long time to all of us who grew up going to the cinema, but it is an incredibly short time in the larger history of the Jewish people. Yet, Jews have embracedContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews In response to the major earthquake that struck El Salvador last week, a number of Jewish organizations and individuals are organizing relief efforts. Here’s a roundup of the efforts and how you can get involved. The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is collecting relief fundsContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Among the positive signs for Jewish community interests during the first few weeks of the legislative session was a bill introduced under the leadership of Rep. Shay Schual-Berke to temporarily resolve a Medicaid reimbursement issue that could cost the Kline Galland Home about $750,000Continue Reading