Joanne Kryszek, who co-owns Chocosphere with her husband, Jerry, never liked chocolate as a child. But when a friend brought her a Côte d’Or milk chocolate bar from Belgium, she had an epiphany: “This chocolate was different. It just changed my mind completely about chocolate.” After a while, Joanne’s friend stopped traveling to Europe, but…
Jewish Family & Child Service, in collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, Portland Jewish Academy, Gan Israel Day Camp, Mittleman Jewish Community Center and more than 100 dedicated volunteers gathered at the MJCC on Nov. 18 for Super Sunday – Community Action Day to assemble and deliver 140 Thanksgiving Food Boxes to families…
Portland is on the map for gay couples in Israel who turn to surrogacy to fulfill their desire to become parents in a society where parenthood is the ultimate goal. That sentiment, backed up by a recent article published in the Journal of Family Psychology, was voiced by two gay couples who came to Portland…
A group of shareholders of the family law firm Gevurtz Menashe has purchased the historic Fleischner-Mayer Building, 115 NW First Ave., from the Bill Naito Company. The purchase includes the adjoining parking lot. Once renovations are complete in early 2013, the law firm will move its offices from the U.S. Bancorp Building to the new building, with…
Ask 10 children – ask 50 – what they want to be when they grow up, and not one of them would pick Janet Kennedy Unitan’s profession. The flip side: ask 10 parents what job they wouldn’t take if you paid them, and I bet Janet’s job would be on the list. Yet, in Janet’s…
Dear Helen: I’m in my 70s and reasonably well off. I don’t have family whom I feel a need to subsidize with my assets after my demise. I’m not a grinch, but the mishpoche are already well off. I’ve begun thinking about death more lately, after a brush with cancer. I am in remission and…
Oregon Jewish Community Foundation has been selected as one of seven pilot communities for the new Life & Legacy – a community partnership program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. OJCF will be eligible for match funds from the Grinspoon Foundation for two years along with the guidance and mentorship of the Grinspoon organization to support…
Just in time for winter comes this delectable collection of root vegetable recipes from Portland cookbook author Diane Morgan. The award-winning writer has assembled a comprehensive guide to these hearty vegetables that nourish our bodies and souls. Inspired by the cooking of her Jewish grandparents, she forges connections between her heritage and the cuisines of…
Portland is justly famous for its food culture, particularly its emphasis on local and sustainably produced foods. But Portland is also notable for something fewer residents know about: the number of cooperatively owned businesses that make their home here. According to a directory listing of cooperatives on the People’s Food Co-op website, Portland has more…
Brown spots, also known as age spots or liver spots, are just one type of the lesions that can occur on skin. Even though most people think their brown spots have suddenly “appeared overnight,” what finally comes to the surface of the skin as a brown spot is really the result of decades of sun…
