The numbers are sobering. In Multnomah County, more than half of adults are overweight or obese and at risk for chronic conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, stroke and high blood pressure. The costs of obesity – both the personal health costs and the shared financial costs – are staggering. According to the…
As a child we lived with my grandparents in a red brick apartment complex in Queens, NY. I remember the pleasure of sitting on my Papa’s lap as he imbued me with love, kindness and wisdom. My grandfather Louis Blumenstock was a well-known philanthropist who founded the Hyam Salomon Home for the Aged. Later in…
Felicia Cohen was born in Maryland and raised in an Orthodox home in Hollywood, FL, where there was a large, thriving Jewish community. She went to Jewish day school and the family walked to their Sephardic synagogue. Oregon, never mind Grants Pass, was not on her radar screen. Felicia’s father was a businessman and mom…
Response one: “If I’m healthy and have a good diet and exercise regularly, I can stay fertile past 40. I keep reading about women having babies after 40, why not me?” Fact: A woman’s fertility has already started into mild decline by her late 20s. It declines more sharply in her late 30s. Between 40…
The Oregon Public Health Genetics program has received a grant to educate members of the Jewish community about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and their potential for increased risk of developing those cancers. “This program worked on education materials, contracted with a geneticist from OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University) to create a presentation and training targeted…
Lynda Falkenstein: “Ignorance is definitely not bliss” In 2000 Dr. Lynda Falkenstein was diagnosed with breast cancer as her mother was dying of ovarian cancer 25 years after she survived breast cancer. Knowing that a long list of relatives had died from ovarian cancer, Falkenstein says she realized “my cancer could not be random ……
Albert Menashe co-founded what has become the largest family law firm west of the Mississippi. He decided to go to law school in the mid-1970s when law was a respected profession, but family law was not so highly regarded. To some extent both of those perceptions have changed. Menashe believes the rise in family law…
Knowledge can enhance your health, your heritage and your community. We explore many facets of the lifelong quest for knowledge in this issue of Oregon Jewish Life. Because Ashkenazi Jewish women are more likely than the general population to have a genetic mutation that increases their risk for breast and ovarian cancer, our section on…
Jazz pianist, arranger and film scorer David Goldblatt has worked with such luminaries as Wayne Shorter, Dave Weckl and John Patitucci. After more than 20 years in Los Angeles, Goldblatt and his wife, Kimmer, decided to call Hillsdale their home. We recently spoke with Goldblatt about his career and his family’s transition to Southwest Portland….
Whenever a new crisis appears, Israelis have been adept at gauging how serious the threat is and whether we need to take the limited steps we have available to protect ourselves as individuals. This is especially true for the residents of southern Israel, who live under a daily missile threat and are still determined to…
