Kahn to release album, perform Yom Ha'atzmaut concert

PHOTO: Aaron Kahn performs at Hoyt Arboretum in Portland in this undated courtesy photo.(Mike Drewry/Hoyt Arboretum via Aaron Kahn)

By ROCKNE ROLL
The Jewish Review
Portland trumpet virtuoso Aaron Kahn has been busy by anyone standards. 
Kahn is releasing an album of music he describes as …

Survivors serve, are served by, community

By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review The Associated Press estimated that in January of this year, approximately 245,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors are living worldwide, out of just under 16 million Jews worldwide. It’s harder to establish just how many survivors are living in the Portland…

Avraham's Closet 'a labor of love'

By ROCKNE ROLL The Jewish Review Nestled downstairs under the Stampfer Chapel at Congregation Neveh Shalom, in a room dominated by heating and ventilation equipment, is a collection of items that fills one of the areas greatest and least known needs: durable medical equipment, readily…

Add meaning with mikvah this passover

By ROCKNE ROLL
The Jewish Review
One of Passover’s most memorable traditions is the four cups of wine consumed during the course of a seder. But another tradition often observed before Pesach makes use of a different liquid: water, specifically the waters of a mikvah.
Rabbi Chanan Spivak, …

Let's talk about swatting

By JESSICA ANDERSON
A couple of weeks ago, a swatting event occurred at Mittleman Jewish Community Center and Portland Jewish Academy. It was an unsettling event for many people who witnessed the police response and for those who subsequently heard about it and had to wait and wonder about w…