
Letter from the CEO: In Search of Ahavat Chinam
As we head into Shabbat, may we seek out ways to create ahavat chinam — the extending of unconditional love to one another — lest we find ourselves on a trajectory toward an even more difficult future.

As we head into Shabbat, may we seek out ways to create ahavat chinam — the extending of unconditional love to one another — lest we find ourselves on a trajectory toward an even more difficult future.

Join tomorrow’s JFNA briefing and see highlights from this week’s Federation programs.

Updates on our next generation of Jewish leaders, Israel partnerships, and advocacy efforts.

Updates on new leadership, camp scholarships, advocacy in schools, and more.

A Seattle participant on the Jewish Federations’ LGBTQ+ mission to Israel reflects on what it meant to show up as queer Jews and support communities still healing after October 7.

I hope you will join us this coming year to find connection, hope, and meaning during these turbulent times.

The violence in Boulder on Sunday, at a peaceful walk to remember the remaining hostages in Gaza, is unthinkable.

Today, we mourn the young couple, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, who were murdered last night in Washington D.C., outside the Capital Jewish Museum, after attending an American Jewish Committee (AJC) event.

We can have an impact in Israel by voting in the upcoming World Zionist Congress elections, and I want to strongly urge our Seattle Jewish community to participate.

This year’s reimagined Connections, Federation’s annual women’s fundraiser, featured Israeli midwifery leaders Yuval Jaffe-Moshkovich and Tania Shteinbuk Gorelik, whose powerful stories highlighted the Federation’s vital support for Israeli mothers and families amid crisis.