ROBISON PICNIC – The Aug. 1 Cedar Sinai Park Community Barbeque at Robison Jewish Health Center included live music, cotton candy, a bouncy house, face painting, and hot food and cool drinks. Above right, Robison residents distributed school supplies to grade-school-aged children of staff. Robison residents, seated from left, Edith Levitt and Ruth Omenn, with…
Dear Helen: Every year I go to temple for the High Holidays, and every year I wonder why I don’t go more often. I came from a family that went to services often, but the older (and busier!) I get, the less time I seem to have for spiritual matters. Is there a way I…
Are you MoDox? If you don’t know what MoDox means, you’re not alone. The latest slang word is a hybrid of Modern and Orthodox and helped Jodi Berris attract a hip, fun-loving demographic of Jews to her Outdoor Adventure Shabbaton. More than 74 Jews from around the world came to Oregon to hike, eat and…
Congregation Beth Israel’s young adult group Jews Next Dor uses social action to help community members feel engaged. Elisheva Cohen, the current chair of Jews Next Dor, says the group has been growing rapidly over the past few years. “There seems to be a strong desire among young Jews in the area to meet and…
It’s holiday time – which means big meals, gatherings with friends and family, shofar blowing, Rosh Hashanah foods. And honey cake. Oy. How many of you really like honey cake? Fess up – be honest. Do you really like the taste of honey cake or do you eat it because its part of the Rosh…
A couple of months ago, while participating in “United by Music,” a Portland State University event co-sponsored by the Jewish Student Union and the Arab-Persian Student Organization, I learned something that has changed my perception about growing up in the Jewish state. Despite the interesting and positive nature of this gathering, it had little to…
The London Olympics came to a close in what Israelis regard as a resounding and painful thud. The games began under a shadow with the offensive refusal of the International Olympic Committee to officially observe a moment of silence on the 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympic massacre in which 11 Israelis were killed by…
Harry Glickman – one of the founders of the Portland Trail Blazers, the team’s president from 1987-94 and now president emeritus– is one of many local athletes and sports promoters featured in the Oregon Jewish Museum’s blockbuster summer exhibit In the Game: Oregon Jews/Oregon Sports. The exhibit closes on Sept. 30. A new exhibit by…
Sababa – loosely translated from Hebrew, it means, “It’s all good.” In June a bus of young adults from the Portland and Tucson areas shared this sentiment as they were whisked across Israel in a free 10-day whirlwind tour courtesy of Taglit-Birthright Israel. We journeyed together on an adventure of a lifetime through the desert…
Personal trainers can help people of all shapes and sizes rehab from injury or surgery, lose weight, feel younger and improve self-esteem, according to Tony Magden, a personal trainer who owns two Fitness Together studios. “What we do is not rocket science,” he says. “We do direct people to exercise the right way, but I…
