Westward Ho: Seattle

September 1, 2005 at 12:24 pm Josh 12 comments

I've barely been back at Information Builders when I was assigned my first ever business trip. From September 18th-28th (maybe the 29th depending on flight), I will be in Seattle. I'm not sure yet where I'm staying, but it will probably be in the downtownish area. Also, I suspect I will have a rental car at my disposal.
I've found some info on the web, but if any loyal readers can help out with any of the following, it would be greatly appreciated:

Good kosher places downtown
Where the Jewish communities and shuls are
Any place interested in hosting a nice Rabbi for a Shabbat (or even a scholar-in-residence?)
Anything out of the obvious of which I should be aware.

Many thanks in advance.
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Ari

contact Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz he lives in Seattle and is part of the Kollel there he is a wealth of knowledge and I am sure wouldove to help!
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Shana

Well you are going to be there for Western Washington Fair...Cows anyone?
But anyways, this is the site you need:
http://www.jewishinseattle.org/JF/Resources/Guide/Kashrut.asp
Plus you can call the Va'ad apparently to see if you like them... Oh and they have an indian resturant somewhere apparently, go for the indian food...or the thai.
Worse comes to worse, it's seattle, you can survive on the fact that they are addcited to caffine :)
Shana

Further
http://www.seattlevaad.org/Synagogues.html
The shul list....
There seems to be one all sephadri congragation, I'm actually a bit suprized cosndring that most of the Jews in seattle are sephardi, I guess most of the Orthodox jews are not.
I suggest calling the va'ad, they will help you..
Shana
Shana

The kollel website
http://www.seattlekollel.org/
It appears the jewish communties are clusted near a palce called seward park and mercer island (all on the west side of seattle, or west seattle...someone will tell you this)
Send a postcard to campus for me!
Shana
http://yutopia.yucs.org Josh

To whomever requested the posts removed, it has been done.
Shana - Thanks, and I am aware how to use google. :-)
http://blaingritch.blogspot.com/ Ginsbu

Hey, you didn't tell me you got the job! Congrats!
CEZ

Hi Josh.
When I was in Seattle, I ate at:
http://www.teapotvegetarianhouse.com/
It's located in Capitol Hill area. The food was very good and reasonably priced. Unless you're allergic to veggie food (as some of us in Hyde Park have suspected), you should check it out.
CEZ

Just wanted to try being fancy with the link:
Teapot Vegetarian House
Also wanted to add, there's no mention of kashrut on the restaurant's webpage, but they are listed in the Seattle Va'ad's list of restaurants.
They're also reasonably close to downtown.
Rabbi Tsvi Kilstein

Hi Josh, nice blog.
Best source for kosher food is my former student
Philip Klitzner who has a store called Noshaway.
Check out his website as well.
There are a couple of other places.
There are two shuls called Bikur Cholim. One is Ashkenaz and the other is Sefard.
They are across the street from one another.
I'll be kind - the sefardi one has some very questionable halachot when it comes to serving food on Shabbat.
Seattle is a great city. I've been there often.
Shaya

Tzvi, I don't believe the sfardi shul has that issue anymore (at least in the shul). I think I was told last summer (when I was there) that the seattle vaad forced them to not using those "warming ovens" anymore. I was told that basically the only thing I would have to be concerned about if I ate at a kiddush there was the fact that I might be milichig for 6 hours due to hard cheese use (which can be a problem if eating out at someone who is serving fleish). I never davened there so it wasn't really an issue. The rav of the ashkenzi shul is Rabbi Kletenik (spelling?) who is a talmid chacham.
But I'd agree that noshaway is a good store :) though a little bit of a drive from seattle and even from sewards park.
I also believe the kosher store at the QFC supermarket closed. Though one can still go to the albertsons on mercer island (though that's also a shlep).
Chaya

Is it true that Tsvi Kilstein is also Harlan Kilstein? Wasn't Harlan arrested by the FBI back in the 1980's?
Rabbi Tsvi Kilstein

No Chaya, I was never arrested by the FBI in the 1980's. Don't know where you got that.

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