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What passes for involvement in public life looks different today than it did in the recent past.

“I think we’ve lost so much of that in in so many different ways over the last decades and years. A...

Rich Meyer has been part of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s work as long as he can remember.

“As a young kid, I spent a lot of my time tagging along with my parents to Federation meeti...

For the past 20 years, Secure Community Network (SCN) has evolved in how it delivers services to the Jewish community and what those services entail. In June of this year, another milestone was ach...

Since the rise of the digital marketplace of ideas, traditional ideas about civic engagement have fallen by the wayside. Jewish and Hindu groups in Portland are working together to change that.

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After launching his career in Jewish community advocacy in the halls of Congress, one of Portland’s own is coming home.

Eli Berne has been named the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s new Dir...

Later this fall, a week before American voters go to the polls in what has been widely billed as one of the most consequential elections in the country’s history, Israeli voters will take their own...

ElevatEd, the national partnership to support the next generation of Jewish Early Childhood Educators, is coming to Portland.

Five Jewish preschools in the area are participating in the third coho...

There are hundreds of chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America across the United States, but Portland’s stands out in a number of ways, as staff from the Anti-Defamation League explained in...

Members of Congregations Beth Israel and Neveh Shalom had a unique experience as they filed into Kabbalat Shabbat service the evening of Friday, Aug. 28.

The congregants of Portland’s two largest ...

For the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Fourth Annual Preschool Day of Learning, keynote speaker Dr. Noah Hichenberg suggested something bigger than what might otherwise come out of a profe...

When is food more than just a meal?

One answer to that question rests on Devora Wilhelm’s dining room table every Friday morning. Rows of small bags, each filled with a Shabbat dinner made just a ...

Cancer is scary. Delving into the realities of genetic predispositions for cancer can also be scary, especially if, like many Ashkenazi Jews, you have a higher-than-average likelihood of carrying c...

Kelly Lyon has loved The Muppets since her formative days. Now, her work on their return to television may net her a second Emmy award.

Lyon, a Portland-based film editor, has been nominated for O...

Rabbi Chaim Wilhelm wanted to do something different for his 40th birthday.

“I wanted to do something for the whole community,” he said.

So, he threw a party. About 70 people came. There was musi...

After 33 years in Oregon newspaper, Steve Law decided to give back to his community by getting involved with Friends of Mount Tabor Park. From there, he found the subject of his book.

“Peddlers of...

The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland is very excited to be hosting Portland’s first-ever Jewish Festival on Sunday, Aug. 30. Jewish festivals are celebrated throughout the United States year-r...

Summers are often a quiet time of year for Hillels on college campuses. For Oregon Hillel, serving the University of Oregon in Eugene and Oregon State University in Corvallis, it’s been anything bu...

Natan Meir has been appointed the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Meir will depart from his current position as ...