Debbie Aharoni, 65, moved from Las Vegas to Eugene last July in search of new adventures in an educated, liberal community close to nature and affordable on a teacher’s retirement. Her quest for new experiences prompted her to enter a pageant for fun, and now she is the first Jewish senior to be Ms. Senior…
PHOTO: Sabina Shalom in her apartment at Rose Schnitzer Manor displays photos of the leaders she met while touring the world on her marriage sabbatical – India Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, the King of Tonga and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Australia. On the shelf is the lifetime achievement award she received from the National…
PHOTO: Tara Atkinson leads a chair exercise class in one of the Greenhouses at the Harold Schnitzer Center for Living on Cedar Sinai Park Campus. At the Mittleman Jewish Community Center, Tara leads a full range of classes from yoga sculpt to gentle yoga. Practice makes perfect. But when you practice how to fall,…
PHOTO: Leon Gildin still uses the IBM Selectric typewriter he brought home when he closed his law firm in 1996 after practicing for more than 40 years. Author Leon Gildin, 89, enjoys discussing his new book, The Polski Trilogy, which begins with his award-winning fictionalized account of the real Hotel Polski, where many survivors of…
SENIOR PRODUCTS & SERVICES ADULT DAY SERVICES AT CEDAR SINAI PARK 6125 SW Boundary St. • Portland, OR 97221 503-535-4403 • cedarsinaipark.org Adult Day Services at CSP follows the social model program to provide socialization, support services and recreation to elders in a structured, supervised program. Daily programs allow your loved one to enjoy music,…
PHOTO: Portland Jewish Academy eighth-graders on top of Masada during their class trip to Israel in March. Portland Jewish Academy began taking its eighth-graders to Israel when the day school expanded to eighth grade for the 1997/98 school year. Since then, except for three years during and after the Second Intifada, members of all of…
Weaving and photo by Linda Hendrickson In May Congregation Shir Tikvah and Jersey Girl Handwovens will offer a two-part class, “Tablet Weaving the Aleph Bet.” The class will be taught by Linda Hendrickson, a Portland-based master in ply splitting and tablet weaving. Participants will learn to weave the aleph-bet, the Hebrew alphabet, using an ancient…
PHOTO: A montage of photos from the “Israel from the Eyes of the Community: A Community Art Display” in the MJCC Gallery. Oregonians are invited to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the modern state of Israel beginning at 5 pm, April 18. Make your way through Israel and join PJ Library partner organizations as they…
Roz Rothstein and StandWithUs help others speak up for Israel Dismayed by the lack of organized support for Israelis in the face of the Second Intifada, three Californians refused to be bystanders. “We did not have a grand plan, we began to meet the immediate need of a voice to support the Israeli people,”…
PHOTO: This year StandWithUs combined its Israel in Focus student conference with a community conference on Combating BDS. The joint conference in Los Angeles drew many participants from the Pacific Northwest. From left are Roland Roth, SWU Northwest managing director; Noa Raman, SWU Northwest campus director; Shayla Norris-York, Portland State University; Roz Rothstein, SWU co-founder…
