On Sunday, Nov. 5, our community came together for conversation + tasting with chef Adeena Sussman, author of the new cookbook โShabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours.โ
A Night With ECS
The SJCC's Early Childhood School parents and families gathered on Saturday, Nov. 4 in the annual ECS Parent Social and Fundraiser.
Childhoods at the J Shaped Lifelong Connections
Some of Brooke Pariserโs earliest memories are from the J. โI lost my first tooth in the sandbox on the back playground, and I remember the entire school spent the day digging and searching for it,โ she said with a laugh. โAnd of course, I remember those same rainbow hallways in ECS.โ
It’s Never Too Late to Jump In
Michelle Flowers-Taylor loves swimming and boating with her family, which is something she never expected. โGrowing up, I was a really poor swimmer,โ she said. โI was never comfortable in the water.โ
Finding a Home, Far Away From Home
When Peymaneh Mollazadehherisi and Amin Bashirinahanji moved to Seattle from Iran in September of 2022, their first time in the U.S., they didnโt expect to stumble into an entire community. But thatโs exactly what they found at the J.

