ABOVE: Rabbi Joshua Stampfer, right, and Rodney Page, former executive director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, are planning a new interfaith effort to combat hatred, poverty and other injustices. Photo by Deborah Moon BELOW: Rabbi Joshua Stampfer at Congregation Neveh Shalom c. 1960. Courtesy of Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education: OJM09392 Shortly…
PHOTO: As a Community Warehouse volunteer, Jack helps clients get the cooking equipment and dishes they need to make the kind of food they want to prepare in their own apartments. “I’m so lucky,” says Jack Heims, 69. An odd statement from a man diagnosed with a rare cancer with a five-year survival rate of…
Photo: Bassem Eid, a Jerusalem-based political analyst, human rights pioneer and expert commentator on Arab and Palestinian affairs, will speak at several events in Oregon March 11-14. Hamantaschen time in Portland and Salem Two Oregon congregations have long histories of baking hamantaschen for Purim as fundraisers. In Portland the Shaarie Torah Sisterhood has been baking…
Two Oregon congregations have long histories of baking hamantaschen for Purim as fundraisers. In Portland the Shaarie Torah Sisterhood has been baking the three-cornered holiday treat since the 1950s. The first year, the sisterhood sold 100 dozen. Last year the sisterhood made more than 2,500 dozen with the help of 100+ volunteers. Shaarie Torah makes…
PHOTO: Sarah Gertrude Shapiro talks to actors Josh Kelly and Caitlin FitzGerald during filming of UnREAL. Sarah Gertrude Shapiro escaped her job as a producer on “The Bachelor” to find true love and professional and personal success. After a couple of years in Portland communing with horses to restore her equilibrium, Sarah is now living…
PHOTO: Just before New Year’s, grateful clients Sasha Welford and Todd Peres of Debbie Thomas Real Estate brought flowers, champagne and snacks to Pat Welch, right, and her staff at Boly:Welch, a local recruiting and consulting firm. Pat has helped the real estate firm find both permanent and temporary employees, and the firm has helped…
New shaliach arrives in Pacific Northwest Eitan Teiger is the new Israeli shaliach for the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland and StandWithUs Northwest. He arrived in November and will be in the region through August. Eitan visits high school classrooms around Oregon and Washington to talk about Israeli society, Israeli culture (music, dance, food, service…
PHOTO: The fifth cohort of the Tivnu: Building Justice program arrived in Portland in late August. Upon their arrival, participants completed construction training, where they learned skills that they have used on the job site building tiny homes at Agape Village. In its relatively short lifetime, Portland’s Tivnu: Building Justice has won the attention…
PHOTO: Nathan Cogan stands beside the Endowment Book of Life created by Oregon Jewish Community Foundation. In his entry in the book, Nathan says: “I don’t see it as giving back, but rather giving forward.” Photo by Deborah Moon Nathan Cogan’s lifelong commitment to tithing and volunteering gained new focus following the untimely death of…
PHOTO: Gregory, Nina, Maya, Leo and Talia Schwartz at Maya’s bat mitzvah in March 2018. Maya’s Torah portion Ki Tissa discusses belief, patience and celebrating the covenant with G-d – all ideas her mom found especially relevant during cancer treatment. Planning a bat mitzvah while in the midst of breast cancer treatment might sound…
