jewish
June 17, 2025
Northern light
Leslie Fried, the sole full-time employee of the Alaska Jewish Museum, has created a home for Jewish history, art and culture in Alaska.
November 22, 2023
Taste and time
The first Black author to garner the James Beard Award for Writing, Michael Twitty connects food, ancestry and cultures.
February 25, 2023
An unlikely knight
When Spain decided to allow Sephardic Jews to reclaim their citizenship, Doreen Alhadeff, ’72, jumped at the chance. She recently earned a knighthood for helping others do the same.
June 6, 2018
The story of Thomas Peter Lantos
Lantos, the first and only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress, was perhaps the unlikeliest UW graduate of them all.
March 1, 2008
Tom Lantos, 1928-2008
Tom Lantos, ’49, ’50, the only Holocaust survivor to serve as a member of Congress, died Feb. 11.
September 1, 2006
Pamela Waechter, 1947-2006
Pamela Waechter, '85, a dedicated volunteer within and outside of the Jewish community, died in a shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.