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First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Day school teacher accused of child molestation

A teacher at Torah Day School of Seattle has been charged with four counts of first-degree child molestation after groping two young girls in his 1st- and 2nd-grade classes.Jorden Eareckson Murray, 32, known to his students as Rabbi Yaakov Murray, was ... [Published JTNews - May 11 2013]

Entities: Seattle, Torah, Rivy Poupko Kletenik

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

University of Washington

The changing field of Holocaust studies

Aron Rodrigue speaks to a packed house at the UW on April 28.Thinking about the Holocaust often comes from a Central and Eastern European focus, with recognition of the existence, established lives, and the eventual destruction of much of Sephardic Jewry ... [Published JTNews - May 09 2013]

Entities: Holocaust, University of Washington, Jewish Community, Seattle, Memory

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

JFS gets a new leader

Will Berkovitz, JFS’s new CEOFor the first time in almost three decades, Jewish Family Service of Greater Seattle is set to bring on a new leader. Will Berkovitz, who will succeed long-time CEO Ken Weinberg, takes over the social-service agency at the ... [Published JTNews - May 09 2013]

Entities: Jewish Community, Judaism, Seattle, Rabbinic, Teaching

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

“Farewell, Auschwitz!” (Don’t you just want to say that?)

If you go: “Farewell, Auschwitz!” premieres on Tuesday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. A “meet the composer and librettist” pre-concert talk will take place at 6:45 p.m. Tickets ... [Published JTNews - May 06 2013]

Entities: Jake Heggie, Scheer (Germany), Warsaw, Recital

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

A conversation with Stephen Tobolowsky

Stephen Tobolowsky will speak at Temple B’nai Torah Saturday, May 5, at 8 p.m. Tickets are selling out. For more information, visit http://tbttobo-tbthome.eventbrite.com/#.Stephen Tobolowsky has appeared in films and sitcoms from Groundhog Day to Mississippi ... [Published JTNews - May 02 2013]

Entities: Stephen Tobolowsky, Torah, Judaism

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Seattle Pacific University

Sala?s letters come to life on stage

The story of Sala Garncarz is full of heartbreak, horror, injustice, and, somehow, hope. Through the five years she spent in Nazi slave labor camps, Sala kept a diary and collected hundreds of letters she received while in the camps. For 50 years she ... [Published JTNews - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Holocaust, Ann Kirschner, Nazi, Seattle Pacific University

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

A Jewish Tombstone

Did you know Wyatt Earp was buried in a Jewish cemetery?This question was all it took for Ann Kirschner to tug at a loose string in the tightly knit fabric of codified history, unraveling an alternative narrative of the American frontier and opening a ... [Published JTNews - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Ann Kirschner, Wyatt Earp, Johnny Behan

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Notes from underground

Sam and Saul Stermer, now in their 90s, return to Verteba Cave in Ukraine, where they hid as children for over a year.“No Place on Earth” opens May 3 at the Landmark Varsity Theatre, 4329 University Way NE, Seattle. Visit www.landmarktheatres.com for ... [Published JTNews - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Ukraine, Holocaust, Gestapo

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Aida Liff

while enjoying a Passover visit with her family. Marcy was born Ruth Marcia Alexander to Reba and Asher Alexander, in Philadelphia, Pa. She grew up in Philadelphia and in Oceanside, Long Island. She attended Douglass College, the women’s college of Rutgers ... [Published JTNews - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Seattle, Education, Douglass Residential College (Rutgers University), Uwajimaya

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Keeping My Hope: An unlikely story by an unlikely author

Courtesy Christopher HuhA scene from Huh’s moving graphic novel about the Holocaust.Christopher Huh is not Jewish. He has no European heritage and he’s not even old enough to drive.But like thousands of other non-Jewish young people over the last 70 years, ... [Published JTNews - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Poland, Elie Wiesel, Hans Peter Richter, Art Spiegelman

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Brewing up a new connection to Lag b’Omer

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Sit back by the bonfire and pop open a brewski, it’s Lag b’Omer.Since we have been counting the Omer — a biblical measure of barley that was brought as an offering to the Temple — each evening from the second night of Passover, what ... [Published JTNews - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Barley, Michael Steinberg, Fermentation, Counting of the Omer

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

North Seattle blooms with new Jewish groups

In 2000, a Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle demographic study showed Seattle’s northeast quadrant as the state’s fastest growing Jewish community. Recent U.S. Census data suggests it still is. Add to this a trend of young adults turning away from ... [Published JTNews - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Seattle, Jewish Community, Minyan, Shabbat