Patron of the arts, philanthropist and a leader in the Jewish and secular community, James H. Winkler will receive the 14th Annual Rabbi Joshua Stampfer Community Enrichment Award at 6 pm, april 11 at the Benson Hotel at a non-fundraising event. “I believe in community and in our individual ability to effect positive change and…
The three-part question posed in the title of this article is one I ask of each person who is about to embark on the search for love. In order to embrace the idea of new love and be able to follow through to find it, the answer to all three questions must be a resounding…
Dear Helen: I come from a large family with three uncles and lots of cousins. Every b’nai mitzvah is a chance for someone to show off how rich they are with a bigger and bigger party. I want mine to be small, and I want to ask people to donate some of the money they…
Hillary Clinton and Kimberly Fuson are referring to an entire generation, but they may just as well have been speaking specifically about Alice Lok Cahana. Alice is a Holocaust survivor who went on to become a rabbi’s wife, mother of three children, a published author and a world-renowned artist. Her survival story was featured in…
Visit an Odessa café filled with intelligentsia or watch a shtetl family recite Sabbath prayers. At Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, interactive exhibits combine audio and video to recreate history. Conceived by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the designers of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Europe’s largest museum devoted to Jewish history and culture opened…
Stanley held spends hours by the window of his 1899 farmhouse in the city. here amid the finches, hummingbirds, possums and resident family of squirrels, nearby Powell Boulevard seems miles away. now retired, the former zookeeper and raptor rescuer is also a self-made expert at making backyard wildlife feel right at home. “The sunflower seed…
He was the prime mover in the creation of Jewish Renewal 40 years ago, and he is a world-renowned author and spiritual light, a leader in “blending mystic, Hassidic thought with modern progressive vision” that includes the divine feminine, the living planet and a faith that can touch all religions. This is Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi,…
Portland’s Moishe House, one of the few places Jewish young adults can go to casually bond, connect and learn, is on the brink of losing funding. At this residence in Southeast Portland, young Jews live together to host and plan events for members of the Jewish community. Since moving to its Southeast location in July…
When asked to reflect on the last four years, it’s not hard to come up with dozens of experiences that influenced us. Our first encounter with OJCYF was the application process. DANIELLE: After submitting multiple college applications, I realized that none of these were the hardest application I have ever written. I submitted my hardest…
Rabbi Bradley Greenstein Congregation Neveh Shalom Portland: Our destinies are tied together – the nation Israel and the people Israel (us). Sometimes I wonder why our ancestors had to call the hottest, most contested place on earth … home. Why Abraham’s soul-searching journey could not have called him to a small deserted island. Instead our…
