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 t…
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…
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…
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…
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 finis…
