Dear Helen: Recently the sister-in-law of a good friend/neighbor woke up (in L.A.), did her morning rituals, went to work, and while seated at her desk in the shop she and her husband owned, was struck by a truck doing 90 miles an hour that plowed into their new building, seriously injuring her and three…
Dr. Dale Oller never thought about the mikvah outside of one Neveh Shalom Sunday school field trip. Life went by, marriage, children, medical school, her psychiatric practice, and then one New Year something changed. “Only after reading an article in a Jewish Women’s Magazine from Mayim Hayyim, the Mikvah project in Boston, did I find…
Who plants trees knowing they’ll never eat the fruit themselves? The Jewish people, that’s who. Jewish tradition exhorts us since our earliest days to recount the story of a man who plants selflessly for the generations to come. When we give through bequests and estate gifts to our Jewish community, we plant not just trees…
High Holy Days 5775 Congregations around the state hold services throughout the High Holy Day season. Check our online calendar (ojlife.com/calendar) for services near you. Erev Rosh Hashanah: Sept. 24 Rosh Hashanah: Sept. 25-26 The Jewish New Year begins at sundown Sept. 24 and continues for the next two days. The holiday celebrates the creation…
The most exciting food festival in the Pacific Northwest returns for a third year. Star-studded Feast Portland features a diverse array of chef-hosted dinners, tastings, panels and classes. This year’s event, which will take place Sept. 18-21, benefits the charitable organizations Share Our Strength and Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon. Feast Portland showcases cutting-edge culinary…
It has often been said that we eat first with our eyes. Whether we actively think about it or not, our senses play an important role in the food we choose to eat, even before we take our first bite. A simple breast of chicken served poached and pale becomes far more appealing when presented…
Portland poet Willa Schneberg’s latest volume, Rending the Garment, her fifth book, is a compendium of interconnected narratives that includes much poetry interspersed with prose, some of which speaks eloquently in the language of poetry. When taken as a whole, it maps the evolution – or “trajectory” – of one Jewish family in America, Schneberg’s…
Portland Center Stage’s 2014-2015 11-play season opens with “Dreamgirls,” (Sept. 20-Nov. 2) and concludes with “Three Days of Rain” (May 17-June 21, 2015). “Dreamgirls,” loosely based on the career of The Supremes, takes the audience to a revolutionary time in American music history when rhythm and blues blended with other styles of popular music and…
Jewish theater professionals make up one-quarter of Artists Repertory Theatre’s expanded resident artist company, which now features 20 of “Portland’s most lauded professionals from a variety of theatrical disciplines.” “Theatre is an art form born of collaboration, and a theatrical experience is created by the innovative and inspired work of many disciplines,” said Artistic Director…
