By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound The day I walked into the Summit at First Hill to chat with Jeff Cohen, CEO of the Kline Galland and Affiliates Jewish senior service organization, the atmosphere was nothing like the image of the dank, infirm life I had of the KlineContinue Reading
The Kline Galland at 100 By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound When the Caroline Kline Galland home first opened on the shores of Lake Washington in 1914, the ramshackle farmhouse held seven inmates, as they were called, all of them poor, infirm, single Jewish men with no other placeContinue Reading
Emily K. Alhadeff Associate Editor, The Jewish Sound You might expect to see a line of motorcycles parked outside a dive bar, but lined up outside a Jewish assisted living facility — you might do a double take. That was the scene on the sunny Sunday morning of August 24,Continue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound This morning, they flipped the switch, and the most recent cohort of crowd-sourcing projects launched for six projects that its organizers hope will provide positive engagement for the Seattle area’s Jewish community. J-Kick, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s version of the popularContinue Reading
By Diana Brement, Jewish Sound Columnist “Humbling,” is how Seattle’s Joshua Gortler described receiving an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Yeshiva University (YU) May 22. Speaking the week before, he said the most remarkable thing was that this could happen to “an immigrant kid who [came] to this countryContinue Reading
