Tel Aviv is a perfect city for tourists and people who love having fun. Its passion for life gives rise to every possible type of evening entertainment. Called the city that never stops, Tel Aviv lives up to this description every day of the week from dawn to dusk and from dusk to dawn. Tel…
The recent U.S. presidential elections were the eighth I have witnessed as an Israeli. Going back to Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election, the special and somewhat complex relationship between the United States and Israel has given each campaign an interesting angle in both the Israeli media and the daily street corner or coffee shop discourse. This…
With visitors headed to town for Hanukkah, winter break or New Year’s, a little extra space is a blessing. If your grown son or daughter has moved on leaving you with an underused room in your home, consider a quick redo. Using what Barb Friedman, owner of Oswego Design & Remodeling, calls flexible furnishings, a…
Rob and Mara Shlachter will receive the Oregon Area Jewish Committee’s 2012 Maurice D. Sussman Award at a dinner in their honor Dec. 13 at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center. OAJC presents the award annually in memory of the late Maurice Sussman to honor individuals whose personal lives and community contributions exemplify the high standards…
Ida Rae & Friends: Cantor Ida Rae Cahana (center) was joined by Storm Large (left) and China Forbes (right) plus Thomas Lauderdale and the Pink Martini orchestra on Nov. 4 for an evening of music and fundraising at Congregation Beth Israel. More than 600 people came together under the Temple dome for a concert featuring…
Ellen Bick didn’t know anyone when she arrived in Portland. That was 1997, and much has changed. After joining Congregation Beth Israel and enrolling her daughter in religious school, she discovered a world of friends and fulfillment at Women of Reform Judaism/Beth Israel Sisterhood. Now, as the newly installed WRJ Pacific District president, she looks…
This Hanukkah 20- and 30-somethings can join fellow Jews at a variety of fun events including the Portland Trailblazers Hanukkah celebration. Young adults are also welcome to join family events around the community. Check the calendar on the next page for more holiday fun. Be sure to check Portland Young Adult Shabbat and Jews Next…
Joanne Van Ness Menashe has done a great many things in her illustrious career working for nonprofits throughout the state, but it’s her latest position with the Oregon Ballet Theatre that is bringing her back to her roots. Though she got a degree in botany, plant pathology from Oregon State University, Menashe knew before even…
Purple onions glow against a neutral background. Apples burnished by red and gold highlights. A female torso whose contours are outlined in green, orange, turquoise and gray. This is the color world of painter Anna Kodesch, a third-generation Portlander whose upcoming show, “Oregon, My Oregon,” opens Dec. 1 at Bellamy Studios in Multnomah Village (6715…
About 30 years ago, Ed Asner tried and failed to convince his rabbi about the importance of Heifer International, so he narrated a documentary to convince others of the project’s unique benefits. This year he was joined by Royal Pains star Mark Feuerstein to create a Heifer at Hanukkah video to encourage other Jews to…
