Holly Witte says she was clever enough to marry a winery. Jim and Holly Witte, the husband-wife team that runs A Blooming Hill Vineyard outside Cornelius, deliver prize-winning pinot noir, pinot gris, chardonnay, riesling and other blushes and blends. Like the 1960s CBS sitcom Green Acres, where Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor traded New York…
After 85 years of memories and four generations of campers, the B’nai B’rith Camp dining hall has been rebuilt for the future while maintaining a sense of its rich heritage. The new dining hall and conference center has increased its capacity by 50 percent while offering state-of-the-art features to benefit campers for generations to come….
About 70 Jewish communal professional and lay leaders explored how legacy giving can ensure the community’s future at a May 24 program hosted by the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation Professional Advisors Group. “This is not about fund-raising. … This is about giving someone the opportunity to be remembered after they are gone,” said Gail Littman,…
LEARNED HAND AWARDS – The Oregon Area Jewish Committee presented its Learned Hand awards at a luncheon on June 13 at the Governor Hotel. Julia E. Markley of Perkins Coie LLP (left) received the Emerging Leadership Award, and Henry H. Hewitt of Stoel Rives LLP received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Oregon Supreme Court Justice Rives…
When a band has been together for nearly a quarter of a century, a celebration is warranted. If it’s a Jewish band, you can assume that a certain amount of tsuris has accompanied the success. That’s the case with the Klezmatics, the world-renowned klezmer band founded in the mid-1980s in New York’s East Village. Beloved…
Dear Helen: I’m once divorced, then single six years after another long-term relationship in which I repeated all the mistakes of my first. Now that I’ve taken the time to do my emotional homework, I’m ready for something healthier and happier. I’ve made “The List” for what I want in my next (and hopefully last)…
My interview with Evelyn Hirsch (“Call me Evy!”) took a while to arrange because her new play was opening, and she was kind of busy. It was a huge success, to nobody’s surprise. So were the previous plays. As are the art classes she helps teach and the writing workshop she’s a part of. She’s…
Newly ordained Rabbi Rachel Joseph aims to “connect young Jews to something greater” when she assumes the position of assistant rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel on July 1. CBI leaders had identified the need for an assistant rabbi when the congregation exceeded 825 families. Senior Rabbi Michael Cahana explains, “We wanted every family to have…
Hot on the heels of their success with the interactive A-B-See-Do exhibit at Israel’s Diaspora Museum, Tamar Hadar and Efrat Adiv came to Portland to share their vision of the future of children’s museums at the 2012 Association of Children’s Museum Conference held in Portland this year. The two women presented a lunch program at…
Summer has arrived and for many gardeners that means heat, drought and watering bans. This can be hard on gardeners as well as their landscapes. The good news is that there are ways to help plants thrive despite these seasonal challenges. Adjusting landscape care accordingly during the summer months can provide relief not only for…
