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  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    While waging a successful strike for a better member contract, the Portland Association of Teachers was making a foray into another conflict; this one larger, more divisive and infinitely more complex than teacher pay and benefits.
    This time, it was the War in Ga...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Jaimie Harper has worked in geriatrics and end-of-life care for over 20 years. For much of that time, she hadn’t experienced the next step; what happens in Jewish tradition after death. She knew about it but hadn’t witnessed it or met the people who perform it...

  • By KERRY POLITZER
    For The Jewish Review
    A museum visit isn’t complete without a good nosh. Rachel and Aaron Brashear of Sweet Lorraine’s Latkes & More are now ensuring that your trip to the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will end on a tasty note.
    The musical duo, who ...

  • By RABBI BARRY COHEN
    When I was an undergraduate, young, idealistic and optimistic, I had my first encounter with existentialist philosophy. What is the point of being? Where can we find meaning and purpose? What is our motivation to wake up in the morning and live yet another day?
    The writings o...

  • By JESSICA ANDERSON
    In my last column, I talked about the importance of reporting antisemitic incidents to me through my incident reporting form at https://jewishportland.org/security. Continuing that thread, I want to share information about a unique resource we have here in Oregon. Oregon was t...

  • By JESSICA ANDERSON
    It won’t be news to most of you reading this that according to the FBI, the Jewish community is on the receiving end of about 60% of religious bias crime, and that between 2021 and 2022, Jews experienced a 36% increase in reported crimes. Given recent events, we can expect 2...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Rabbi Barry Cohen, who has served as Portland’s Jewish Community Chaplain for over five years, will depart his position next month to become the Chaplain Manager of The Velva G. and H. Fred Levine Jewish Chaplaincy Program at the Joan and Stanford Alexander Jewi...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Everything can be Jewish. From A to Z.
    Visitors to the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education can see the evidence of that laid out in the museum’s main floor gallery in “Oregon Jews, A to Z,” now through May 26.
    “We rarely, if ever, had t...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Bonni Goldberg has written plenty over the years, on a variety of subjects, but it took a special story to make firsy traditionally published children’s book.
    A special Jewish story. 
    That special story was the genesis of “Dona Gracia Saved Worlds,” publish...

  • By RABBI BARRY COHEN
    When we are surrounded by so much grief and instability, how do we continue to live?
    Rabbi Sharon Brous, through her Tablet Magazine article “Grieving and Living – how to hold one another in light of the ever-present reality of loss,” gives us direction. Brous is the se...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Through the recent ice storm, there were numerous stories of members of Portland’s Jewish community supporting one another. Many of these were on an individual level – friends and family staying over to cope with a loss of power or a damaged home. But few were...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Frieda Cohen, z”l, “was a force of nature,” her son, Richard Cohen said.
    Frieda Cohen, who passed away Wednesday, Jan. 24 at the age of 103, certainly had an immense impact—in her lifetime-- in business, with her family and at Congregation Shaarie Torah, w...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Every weekend, Noga Vilan is standing outside, holding a sign.
    In rain, sunshine or even – as happened late in January - ice. Sometimes there are many people around her, sometimes only a few. The signs she holds each weekend bear the faces and the names of host...

  • By RABBI BARRY COHEN
    “I was sitting on a beach one summer day, watching two children, a boy and a girl, playing in the sand. They were hard at work building an elaborate sandcastle by the water’s edge, with gates and towers and moats and internal passages. Just when they had nearly finished t...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    For those who were missing Moishe Pod West PDX after the departure of Owen Broder and Shelly Zeiser last summer, the Pod is back!
    Cousins David Stein and Sam Greene have taken over the Pod, located in West Portland, and are already making their mark with monthly S...

  • By ROCKNE ROLL
    The Jewish Review
    Among the many connecting threads through Jewish history is the Hebrew language. Passing that language – and everything that goes with it – along makes Hebrew teachers in Jewish schools an essential link in the chain of the transmission of Jewish culture. Thos...

  • By RABBI BARRY COHEN
    Let’s talk about Amalek, the prototypical enemy of the Jewish people. We meet his tribe for the first time in this week’s Torah portion, B’shalach. In this portion, we cross the Sea of Reeds and obtain our first taste of freedom. But then the grumbling begins. The freed...

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