What is the source of the Jewish obligation to care for our bodies? Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin Temple Beth Israel, Eugene Before you read about the Jewish view of our responsibility to care for our physical health, I ask you to take one minute to sit quietly, perhaps with eyes closed, turning your awareness inward to…
Mark Rosenberg, MD, is the director of the internal medicine residency program at Providence Portland. He is also a firm believer in the importance of volunteering your time to help others. He can do that with Providence, where a robust program allows medical residents to spend time working and learning in Kenya, Haiti and, soon,…
Early on a misty Friday morning, a cacophony of footsteps and the happy chatter of children can be heard as they get closer to Vernon School, a Pre-K to 8 school in Northeast Portland. It’s the sound of a “walking school bus” making its way to school through the neighborhood. The “bus” swells to about…
Dr. Brian Druker graduated medical school determined to find a better way. Despite debilitating chemotherapy and dangerous bone marrow transplants, life expectancy for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia patients remained three to five years. Everything changed when Druker pioneered the first targeted cancer treatment, a medicine called Gleevec. Now, a pill with minimal side effects gives most…
Just as many educators promote educating the whole child, many health care providers now consider patients’ physical, mental and spiritual needs as essential to overall health and fitness. Gov. Kitzhaber’s recent deal with the federal government to provide $1.9 billion to Oregon over the next five years as the state implements an integrated health care…
Filmmaker and TV personality Boaz Frankel has lived in New York; Washington, DC; and Seattle, but he always seems to find his way back home to Portland. Growing up in Southwest Portland near Multnomah Village, Frankel attended Portland Jewish Academy and Wilson High School before making his way to the Big Apple to attend NYU’s…
When I moved from sunny Colorado to the Pacific Northwest 20 years ago, it seemed to me it rained every day. I missed the semi-desert Front Range and the Rocky Mountains outside my window. With my sons in preschool, I enjoyed visiting the nearby Oregon coast to let them play in the sand and splash…
On April 11, 1909, when the 66 founding families of the city later named Tel Aviv raffled their building plots on a desolate sand dune using seashells, they probably did not imagine that 100 years later this wasteland would become a flourishing modern city in the heart of the Middle East, or that the number…
Dear Helen: I’ve been asked to give the keynote at my son’s small liberal arts college graduation. I’m not shy, but I’m just a software game designer whose app went viral. Can you get me started? Non-Dignitary Dear Non-Dignitary: Experience is hard to transfer, and hard-earned wisdom often sounds like banal platitudes. But what you…
Arnold (“Jin”) Zidell has poured his mind, soul and wealth into Blue Planet Network, whose goal is as vast as the ocean: to bring safe drinking water to hundreds of millions of people in developing nations. Now he is dedicating his body to the cause. Never mind that it’s a 73-year-old body. Since August, that…
