By Lorraine Sidell, Special to JTNews At 103 years old, Sarah Rebecca Cohen remains lovely and astute. She has very definite opinions on politics and an amazing memory of Jewish life in the past. She shares her thoughts several times a week on the telephone with her 105-year-old sister, MayContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews On March 31, Seattle area residents will come together for the 3rd Annual A Breath of Hope Dinner/Auction to raise funds for medical research into an uncommon, and fatal, lung disease known as lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM. This year’s event takes place at the Washington StateContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Rabbi Hanoch Teller, the globetrotting “Modern-day Maggid,” is coming to Seattle. Rabbi Teller will be a visiting scholar-in-residence at Mercer Island’s Congregation Shevet Achim between Jan. 26—28, 2001. On Jan. 27, Congregation Shevet Achim and the Seattle Kollel are hosting a public lecture by RabbiContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Students from the Seabury School will present the children’s opera, “Brundibar,” with previews Feb. 5—7 at Knutzen Family Theatre. “Brundibar” (“Bumblebee”) was composed in 1938 by Hans Krasa. The first performance of Brundibar was given by a boy’s orphanage in Prague. Original cast member DashaContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Seattle Hebrew Academy invites the public to see what the school is all about during a regular day of classes on “Be Our Guest Day,” Feb. 8. The program, “Be Our Guest Day,” was first implemented last year when Rabbi Shmuel Kay came on boardContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews From Jan. 5 through Feb. 4, artists in Bet Alef Meditational Synagogue’s community are joining members of East Shore, University, West Seattle and Edmonds Unitarian Churches in an exhibit of painting, photography, pottery, sculpture and jewelry. “Liberals’ Art” will be on display at the EastContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews Temple Beth Am will be sponsoring its 5th Annual Mini-University during the month of February, 2001. This program of adult study features college level courses taught by experts in their fields which are designed to broaden and deepen one’s knowledge of Judaism. This year, Mini-UniversityContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent A new educational program for first-time Jewish teachers called the Bereshit Initiative is in its trial run this year in Seattle. The initiative seeks to support teachers who may be temporary to Jewish education but understand they will be making a significant impact on JewishContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent Anne and Emily were just distant cousins who needed each other for like-minded chitchat at family weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs. Anne lived in Cleveland with her family, Emily in Pennsylvania with hers. But today, Emily Popkin, a 30-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis [MS] now livingContinue Reading

By Janis Siegel, JTNews Correspondent It may be too late to change the outcome of the presidential election for the 9,000 Jewish senior citizens of West Palm Beach County, Fla., but the ongoing investigations into voter irregularities and fraud may help them feel they can return to fair elections inContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent About 150 strikers and supporters sang, danced and munched on latkes in front of The Seattle Times building on Dec. 21, day 31 of the Newspaper Guild strike and the first night of Hanukkah. The Seattle Times had announced two days prior to the celebrationContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Jewish communities invented socially responsible investing with Hebrew Free Loan societies. In communities across the nation, those free loan organizations continue to operate, but now there’s a new Jewish way to participate in what has become a trendy way of investing, through The ShefaContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Read a book or article about Jewish community history or peruse the collection at the Jewish Archives and you may notice something missing: Jewish women’s lives. Yes, Jewish women are mentioned in the archives as the wives or daughters of famous people or inContinue Reading

By , Special to JTNews In an dramatic show of unity with Israel, about 900 North American Jews — include eight from Seattle — are in Israel this week on a special United Jewish Communities (UJC) Solidarity Mission. The contingent, representing 70 Jewish communities across the continent, is the largestContinue Reading

By Jessica Davis, JTNews Correspondent Holocaust survivors and descendants of Holocaust victims gave heartfelt thanks to outgoing state Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn for her hard work at an informal discussion about the status of their insurance claims at Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Dec. 20. Senn said that although herContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews The 2000 legislative session may be remembered as the year government gridlock was so bad it seemed as if state legislators had to walk through a sea of caramel before they could take any action. The House was split evenly between Democrats and RepublicansContinue Reading

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Editor, JTNews Anna Rachel Jaffe seemed determined to be the first Jewish baby of 2001 in Washington state. She arrived 11 days early and beat her next closest competitor by about an hour. “She wanted to be the first Jewish baby. She was jumping out,” saysContinue Reading

By (none), JTNews Correspondent Seattle Kollel Winter Learning Institute will be having its yearly week-long learning program, Dec. 25—29, at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. The learning sessions will be held each morning following breakfast from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The subjects covered will be Talmud, a tour of Jewish literature,Continue Reading

By (none), JTNews Correspondent Professor John Bush Jones of Brandeis University will be featured speaker at the University on Wheels, Brandeis University Women’s Committee Luncheon. His topic will be, “Strikes, Sex and the American Way: American Musicals and the First Amendment.” Professor Jones is primarily a theater historian, teaching coursesContinue Reading