Even if you work outside the home full time, mom duties are still 24/7. We have an 11-year-old son with a very busy schedule. He plays several sports, studies hard at school, practices on the piano every day and studies Hebrew to prepare for his bar mitzvah. It seems like just yesterday I was holding…
A maternal atmosphere pervades Mother’s Bistro & Bar. The décor is rustic and homey, and the mugs entreat you to “call your mother.” Chef Lisa Schroeder is not trying to make you feel guilty; she simply wants to envelop you in the delicious world in which she grew up. The child of a Jewish single…
I am ashamed of myself. I have always considered myself to be pretty fit. I walk steep hills several times a week and lift weights every other day. I’ve been the same size for decades. Hey, I’m turning 60 and my arm only hurts a little from all the patting myself on the back I’ve…
For nearly a century, Portland Jews have organized to take care of the community’s elderly in ways that maintain dignity and honor. From the first efforts to the most recent plans, the emphasis has been on the highest standards of care, and the importance of providing a place that can be home. “Elders – and…
Portland’s Jewish community provides a wide array of activities and programs to engage the growing population of robust and active seniors. When Mittleman Jewish Community Center underwent a major overhaul in 2005, many of the senior programs it had hosted were dispersed to sites such as Cedar Sinai Park and synagogues. “A number of programs…
Gov. John Kitzhaber signs HB 4110, a bill introduced by the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland. The bill strongly encourages the Oregon Investment Council to divest from multinational energy companies operating in Iran’s oil and gas sectors. Commenting on the three years of hard work it took to get the…
Have you ever looked in the mirror and noticed the ponem (face) your bubbe used to pinch has drastically changed? Gone is the clear skin atop apple-shaped cheeks, replaced by dull, dry skin peppered with age spots and melasma (that beautiful “mask of pregnancy!”) Many of us wake up one morning later in life and…
It all began with Adam. Alan Sprints was a home brewer when Portland’s microbrew revolution began in the late 1980s. He joined the ranks of professional brewers in 1991 and then opened his own Hair of the Dog Brewery in 1993. Since he planned to brew strong beers of 10% or higher alcohol level, Sprints…
Spring encourages us to look optimistically toward Oregon’s precious months of sunlight. That light has been married to color in the kabbalah Glass studio of Eugene artist and advice columnist Helen Rosenau for the past decade. Rosenau straddles two arts – glass-making and writing – both of which draw on her Jewish spirituality. “I’d always…
J Street – a liberal pro-Israel, pro-peace nonprofit lobbying organization – has captured the hearts and imaginations of some Oregon college students. Thirteen of the 24 Oregonians who attended the J Street National Conference, March 24-27, were students, mostly from Reed and Lewis & Clark colleges. One student at the conference in Washington, DC, was…
