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Nicole Frisch: Making the Human Connection
Nicole Frisch jokes that she “fell into” the work that she has been doing for the past 15 years. She…
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Tikkun Olam Top Ten
In 2019, we published our first “Tikkun Olam Top Ten.” We are continuing the tradition with what we intend to…
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Lisa Schneiderman: From Hollywood back to…
Photo: Lisa Schneiderman making a delivery of masks made by Sew to Save volunteers. Lisa Schneiderman’s 20 years as a…
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Sunriver Resort wants to Honor Community Heroes
Over the last year, Oregonians across the state have made an indelible mark on their communities, with so many working selflessly to support and care for others. To honor Oregon’s community heroes, Sunriver Resort is giving away 10 complimentary two-night stays every week for 10 weeks as part of its For the Love campaign….
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Vaccine Support for Seniors
Many seniors in the Portland Metro area can’t schedule their Covid-19 vaccinations on their own. They do not have access to the internet, do not know how to navigate the online appointment platforms, or they have a language barrier. Many also don’t have friends or family to assist them. That’s where background-checked volunteers…
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FIDF Distributes Mishloach Manot for Purim to Soldiers
Photo: IDF soldiers from the Home Front Command celebrating Purim with Mishloach Manot from FIDF. Photo credit: Boaz Eshtai. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) delivered Mishloach Manot to thousands of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers for Purim this week. Every year, FIDF distributes Mishloach Manot to soldiers from various brigades and battalions…
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According to BGU Researchers Music is a Must for Young Drivers
A new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers resulted in a nearly unanimous response: driving is “absolutely impossible” without music. “To young drivers 18-29, music in the car isn’t just entertainment, it’s part of their autosphere whether they’re alone or not,” says Prof. Warren Brodsky, director of the BGU Music Science…
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Aleph Farms and Technion Reveal World’s First 3-D Printed Ribeye Steak
Photo: Prof. Shulamit Levenberg with Didier Toubia (right) and graduate student Iris Ianovici (left). Courtesy Nitzan Zohar Aleph Farms Ltd. and its research partner at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, have successfully cultivated the world’s first slaughter-free ribeye steak, using three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology and natural…
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Classroom Law Project Honors Rob and Mara Shlachter
Stoll Berne attorney Rob Shlachter along with his wife, Mara Shlachter, will be honored with Classroom Law Project’s 2021 Legal Citizen of the Year Award. The event will be held virtually on April 15, 2021. Classroom Law Project is the premier Oregon non-profit focused on educating students about the law and legal systems. Among other…
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Positive Charge! PDX Offers COVID-19 Vaccine Support for Seniors
On Feb. 4, just before enrollment for the COVID-19 vaccine was about to open up for seniors age 80 and up in Oregon, a board member of the nonprofit Positive Charge! PDX sent an email to co-founder, Sallie Pearlman Cohen about a post they had seen where someone offered to assist seniors with…
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‘A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff’ Premieres at Portland Int’l Film Festival
“A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff,” a feature-length hybrid of docudrama and musical memoir co-adapted and directed by Alicia J. Rose (The Benefits of Gusbandry), based on the original one-woman show by poet and composer Alicia Jo Rabins, is set to make its U.S. premiere at the Portland International Film Festival and will be screening virtually from March…
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Portland Street Response Launches
The pilot for the Portland Street Response (PSR), an innovative non-police response to assist people experiencing houselessness or a behavioral/mental health crisis, hits the streets for the first time on Feb.16. Beginning at 10 am, the team started taking calls dispatched from 911 to offer an alternative to the police for people suffering mental…
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Purim and Addiction Recovery
By Hannah Prager Being Jewish, having family members in addiction recovery, and now working for a treatment center for alcoholism and addiction, I wanted to learn more about Purim, and the commandment to drink. I had the opportunity to (virtually) sit down and learn with Rabbi Dr. Chaim Meyer Tureff to learn about the…