If you have visited one of our local Jewish cemeteries on Memorial Day you will have seen the efforts of a small group of local Jewish veterans who honor their comrades of past conflicts with a flag placed on each of their graves. In 1996, armed with a list ofContinue Reading
By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent Temple De Hirsch Sinai took a programming risk with Rosh Hashanah this year and it paid off — big time. On the second night of 5775, nearly 100 Jews in their 20s and 30s showed up at Sole Repair Shop, an event space inContinue Reading
By Joel Magalnick, Editor, The Jewish Sound FY2015_PAC_Grants (1) Sometimes a kid just needs a place to unwind. “It’s an overwhelming, stimulating world,” said Shoshana Bilavsky, head of school at the Seattle Jewish Community School. “The new generation is more and more stimulated, and you see more excitement and sensoryContinue Reading
1 Seattle auctioneer David Silverman has built on his foundation as a song-and-dance man to help countless organizations raise money for good causes. An auctioneer has “a huge advantage to being in theater,” he says. “You have to be able to make that flip [from] making people smile…to getting themContinue Reading
Barbara Wessel Hurst moved to Seattle in 1983 to become the Pacific Northwest Area Director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), a position she held until her retirement in 1995. Barbara’s accomplishments during her tenure with the AJC include her sponsorship of the Consultation on American Pluralism, organizing a StampContinue Reading
