December 12, 2012 JT News: Something for everyone for Hanukkah→ December 12, 2012/ Michel Goldstein [...]Light the Candles: A Hanukkah Celebration for All7—8:30 p.m.The Seattle Jewish Chorale presents an interactive, family-friendly concert featuring traditional and contemporary holiday songs in Hebrew, English, Yiddish and Ladino. A reception with holiday treats will follow. [...]
December 08, 2011 JT News: Hey Eastsiders, looking for great ways to celebrate Hanukkah?→ December 08, 2011/ Michel Goldstein We’ll start with stuff for families.The Seattle Jewish Chorale is doing it second-night style with a concert at Temple B’nai Torah.“It’s Hanukkah songs, but not necessarily all the Hanukkah songs that everybody knows,” says Michele Yanow, the chorale’s executive director, of “Light the Candles: A Hanukkah Concert for Everyone.”[...]
June 08, 2011 JT News: Chorale finale will bring a little something for everyone→ June 08, 2011/ Michel Goldstein When Michele Yanow and Mary Pat Graham heard Kol Dodi, the Metro-West Jewish Community Chorale of New Jersey perform “Not in Our Town,” “we said, “˜We have to sing this song,’” said Yanow, founder and executive director of the Seattle Jewish Chorale. The piece by songwriter Fred Small, originally commissioned by Seattle Men’s Choir, is based on the reaction of residents of Billings, Mont. after the Ku Klux Klan threw a brick through the window of a Jewish family.[...]