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 synagogues filed into the same space.
Nearly 400 of them in total assembled on Neveh Shalom’s …
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 professional development program.
“Your children are so smart, so creative, so relentlessly generat…
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 certain cancer-linked genes.
Talking about these things shouldn’t be – at least it wasn’t suppo…
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 Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming for her work on “The Muppet Show,” an ABC sp…
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 music, sushi, dessert, even a gift for Rabbi Wilhelm.
But what made this party special was that th…
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 Hate: How the Ku Klux Klan Seized Power in 1920s Oregon,” published by Oregon State University…
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 but.
For starters, Oregon Hillel is in the closing stages of securing a multi-year lease for pro…
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 Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies and Academic Director of The Harold Schnitzer Family…
Naomi Leavitt, the Community Liaison at Cedar Sinai Park, had a problem; the kind of problem that, it turned out, was best solved with a party.
Saturday afternoons at Rose Schnitzer Manor are quiet, and not in a good way. The “lonely, isolating” kind of quiet.
“One, that’s not what Shabbat…
Oracolor, the color-coded, Torah-infused self-discovery tool by Portland’s Debbie Plawner, is getting a broader audience in formats both large and small.
Oracolor began as a deck of 52 cards which connected color theory, Jewish wisdom and self-awareness – 52 cards for the 52 weeks of the Gr…
Richard Freimark has something in common with approximately 96,000 other Americans.
He needs a kidney.
Kidney disease is an unfortunately common story. What’s perhaps less common is that, despite the incidence of kidney disease being no more frequent in Jewish populations than the rest of …
Everybody needs food. Some people, of course, have a harder time finding it than others. That’s where the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s latest volunteer program comes in.
Rose City Mitzvah Meals, launched earlier this summer by Federation Volunteer Coordinator Merit Pinker, partne…
Judge Roy Altman is used to presiding over trials. This Sunday, he’ll come to Portland to discuss a different kind of trial.
Altman will present on his recently released book, “Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law” Sunday, Aug. 2 at Congregation Neveh Shalom in …
This year’s Pathways cohort, the eighth cycleof the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s next-gen mentoring program, wrapped up its 10-month run in June and preparations are already underway for the ninth cohort.
The 10-month run was the longest in the program’s history; a conscious chan…
Mahjong is having its moment.
Originally invented in China, mahjong was imported to the United States and adapted into its current format by primarily Jewish women in New York. Today, the game is having a post-COVID renaissance as a social pastime, with the designs of its distinctive tiles …
