MEMORIAL DAY AT CEDAR SINAI PARK– Cedar Sinai Park held its annual Memorial Day Veterans Recognition on Tuesday, May 26th in front of the flagpole at Robison Jewish Health Center. This yearly event recognizes Robison and Rose Schnitzer Manor residents, CSP Adult Day Services participants, and Robison and Rose Schnitzer Manor staff who have served…
J Street Vice President of Communications Alan Elsner was in Portland May 4 to speak on “Elections, Negotiations and Iran: What’s Next for Israel?” In a phone interview prior to his visit, Elsner said he expected the new government to be sworn in while he was in town, but negotiations lingered until May 14 (see…
All 362 miles of Oregon’s coast make up one of the most remarkable public recreation settings in the United States. Since the Oregon State Park system manages the Ocean Shore State Recreation Area, the entire coastline from the Oregon/California border north to the Columbia River is open to the public and waiting for you to…
Since 1998 St. Clare School eighth-graders have studied the Holocaust in a collaborative unit designed by the Catholic school’s art teacher and language arts teacher. The unit has had an impact far beyond the school walls. The entries St. Clare students have created for the Sala Krysek Holocaust Art and Writing contests are incredibly powerful….
While Rabbi Yitzhak Husbands-Hankin’s Jewish journey might seem exotically diverse to the casual observer, he describes each step as a natural progression. He says his upcoming “redeployment” from senior rabbi to rabbi emeritus at Temple Beth Israel in Eugene will be just as organic. “I loved music as a child and I loved spirituality,” says…
After 118 years of serving women, families, children, immigrants and others in need, the Portland Section of the National Council of Jewish Women has been formally dissolved; but the group’s legacy will continue in perpetuity. “It saddens me we have to close, but we have a changing world,” says Meryl Haber, who served as section…
When two art collectors asked glass artist Steve Klein if he would be interested in creating the windows for their California congregation as it rebuilt its fire-damaged sanctuary, he realized two things. First, he didn’t want to just make windows, he wanted to create “something special that would have meaning to the building and to…
Before lung cancer struck, 82-year-old Jody Klevit was an avid tennis player and an active member of the Jewish community. A member of Congregation Neveh Shalom and a past president of the Oregon Jewish Museum, Jody has also been active in Hadassah and the National Council of Jewish Women through the years. But following surgery…
Seeking a culminating project for his years at Portland Jewish Academy, eighth-grader Sam Ellenby decided to combine his passion for music with helping the community’s seniors. “I have always had an immense passion for music, and I believe so strongly in the effects it can have on a person’s life,” says Sam. PJA’s Capstone Project…
When Jacob Brown was a toddler, his uncle, Robert Marx, a three-time Olympic fencer, put a stick in his hand and challenged him to a duel. Now the 16-year-old Bend resident is bound for the European Maccabi Games in Berlin, Germany, July 25-Aug. 4. The son of Debra Rycus-Brown and Henri Brown began his fencing…
