Three killed in Kansas City JCC shootings
UPDATE: WASHINGTON (JTA) — The suspect in the deadly shooting attack on two Jewish targets in a Kansas City, Kan., suburb was identified as a prominent white supremacist. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate group monitor, identified the alleged gunman as Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, of Aurora, Mo., andContinue Reading
Pesach cocktail hour means moving beyond Manischewitz
Sure, we’re all familiar with the four cups of wine at Passover seder. But why be so restrictive when aside from wine, there are so many other creative concoctions to include at the seder table? Tablet Magazine cleverly put out a ten plagues cocktails recipes post today, incorporating kosher forContinue Reading
Premier Cancer Researcher Cites Successes and Sees Hope
By: Felice Friedson/The Media Line Dr. Larry Norton is the Deputy Physician-in-Chief of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and hailed by many as one of the foremost cancer researchers in the United States. Dr. Norton was in Israel for a conference hosted by Soroka Medical Center in Be’erContinue Reading
Good News: Quinoa Officially Kosher For Passover
After lengthy discussion and debate, it’s official: the Orthodox Union—one of the world’s foremost kashrut authorities—has declared quinoa kosher for Passover. Though many Jews have considered quinoa a “safe” kosher for passover food (since at least 2008), now that the community has the blessing of the Orthodox Union, many skeptics canContinue Reading
In music, tracing the 600-year odyssey of the Sarajevo Haggadah
By Penny Schwartz, JTA World News Service BOSTON (JTA) — Growing up in Bosnia, Merima Kljuco was familiar with the Sarajevo Haggadah. The medieval, illuminated manuscript was considered a treasure of the Bosnian National Museum for more than a century. Its 600-year journey from Spain through Italy and then Sarajevo,Continue Reading
Parker Maurice Parmacek
Parker will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on April 12, 2014 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue. Parker is the son of Brett and Victoria Parmacek of Bellevue and the brother of Max. His grandparents are Margo Parmacek and Edward Parmacek of California, and Margaret and Charles Heinitz of Washington. ParkerContinue Reading
Marasow-Ezagui
Rabbi Sholom Ber and Mrs. Chanie Levitin announce the engagement of their granddaughter Tzivie Marasow, daughter of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok and Mrs. Frumi Marasow of Seattle, to Rabbi Levi Ezagui, son of Rabbi Pinhas and Mrs. Chani Ezagui of Daytona, Fla. A “Vort” was held April 2 at United LubavitchContinue Reading
Men, age-ing and sage-ing, seek authentic selves
In 1995, Renewal Judaism founder Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi published his book “From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing,” based on his studies of world religions and lifelong values. The concept of the book — that people should look for ways to make the golden years of their life as easy and fulfilling asContinue Reading
The thrill of winning (but winning isn’t everything)
By Richelle Willner Martin The JUMP boardroom presentation day took place on March 19, 2014, on the 25th floor of a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan. Each of the five teams was granted 15 minutes to present everything they had accomplished in the past five months to a setContinue Reading
A little kindness goes a long way
By Emma Stein JUMP, Jewish Unity Mentoring Project, is a national leadership program for Jewish high school students across the country. It is a program to teach Jewish teenagers about leadership and Judaism and what it means to help others. JUMP has taught us to become leaders in our ownContinue Reading
Let’s put on a show and donate some blood
By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist If you know me, you know I’m a regular blood donor who enjoys nagging folks to do the same. Lynn Gottlieb is a much better example than me, however. Having donated over 100 pints, she’s earned a leaf on the Puget Sound Blood Center’sContinue Reading
Appeals court dismisses Olympia Food Co-op suit
Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent The Washington State Court of Appeals has thrown out a lawsuit filed in Sept. 2011 by five Olympia Food Co-op members against 16 of its current and former board members, upholding a lower court’s ruling that the board did not go beyond its authority orContinue Reading
Researchers: Circumcision comparable to vaccination
(JTA) — An Australian-American team of researchers recommended circumcising infant males to avoid diseases in a new study that compared the practice to vaccination. The team, led by Brian Morris of the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Sydney, asserted in their newly published study that halfContinue Reading
The Sarajevo Haggadah inspires peace, music
By Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound The Seattle Peace Chorus has been “cultivating peace through song” since 1983, when Helen Lauritzen sought a way to bridge Americans and Russians in the midst of the Cold War. Now in its 31st year, the Seattle Peace Chorus continues itsContinue Reading
Survey says! A study launches to understand our Jewish community
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound It’s almost inevitable when we travel, or have visitors come to town, that they will ask the same question: How many Jews are there in Seattle? The answer, we’ll find out later this year, is trivial, if not trivia. As both the sponsorsContinue Reading
Quinoa leaps onto your seder table with three savory dishes
By Mollie Katzen, JNS.org Vegetarians, and especially vegans, need some high-protein plant food with a bit of heft to keep them going during Passover, especially if observing the Ashkanazic tradition that forbids eating kitniyot — a category that includes legumes, most grains, and some seeds. Meat eaters also might want toContinue Reading
Israel on tap: Science comes to a neighborhood pub
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent It’s a college student’s dream scenario: Science class in a bar — with no tests. There’s no telling how many might have aced their finals if they could have attended class in the evening, listening to their professor with a finely crafted beer inContinue Reading
The faces and voices of Sephardic music in Seattle
By Ty Alhadeff, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies It has been 40 years since Dr. Rina Benmayor visited Seattle to record romansas (ballads) among local residents of the Sephardic community. Dr. Benmayor followed in the footsteps of her mentors to capture the musical traditions that the Jews of Spain andContinue Reading
The West Bank: ‘Occupied’ or not?
Op-Ed: The West Bank is under military occupation, and that’s a fact By Jessica Montell, JTA World News Service JERUSALEM (JTA) — According to press reports, the crowd at a recent Republican Jewish Coalition conference “noticeably gasped” when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie referred to the West Bank as “occupiedContinue Reading