Rabbi Eve Posen looks forward to her first Passover in Portland and wants to help other women enjoy the holiday, too. As the new youth director and rabbinic educator at Congregation Neveh Shalom, Rabbi Posen’s “Inspirational Women’s Passover Experience” will explore central themes of the seder while providing tips and tricks. Open to Portland’s entire…
From 1991 through last spring, Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, z”l, and Eve Ilsen came to Havurah Shir Hadash in Ashland for a weekend of ecstatic music, deep learning and prayer. Members of Jewish Renewal, Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist communities from around the country would descend on the Havurah to be a part of the transformational magic…
Portland native Susan Winkler decided to combine her lifelong interest in art and her broad knowledge of Paris to write her first novel, Portrait of a Woman in White, released last fall. Educated at Bennington College, Stanford University, L’Academie in Paris and the University of Geneva, Susan was recruited to write The Paris Shopping Companion:…
On March 16 The Community Without Walls series presents Borders and Biodiversity: How Cultures Across the Israeli-Jordanian Border Enhance Biodiversity. “Different human cultures on the two sides of the Israeli-Jordanian border may have different impacts on the land that will result in species differences and sometime even difference in behavior of species across the border,”…
Dear Helen: Is there any good way to break up with one’s hair stylist? Maybe it’s the seven-year itch, but I’m feeling dowdy when I used to feel stylin’. She’s a nice person, but I’m just not feeling it anymore. Ready for a New Do Dear Ready: Breakups rarely leave clean edges. More often they…
