What comes to mind when you think of the “forbidden fruit” described in the Garden of Eden – the one that Eve is said to have eaten and then shared with Adam? If you guessed an apple, you’re probably wrong. In the Talmud, when listing the possible “fruits” that may have been products of…
Gregg Semler, president and CEO of InPipe Energy announced that the company has just completed an installation of InPipe’s In-PRV (pressure recovery valve) with Skagit Public Utility District (Skagit PUD) in Mount Vernon, WA. This project was installed at their Division Street booster pump station where they manage water pressure and will now be…
The full quote from Margaret Mead reads: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. On Monday, June 21, we discovered an antisemitic/anti-Zionist post from Dr. Fidaa Wishah, a pediatric radiologist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, AZ that stated, among…
Photo: Laizer Kornwasser, National Vice President of the OU and Co-Chairman of NCSY Youth Commission; Moishe Bane, President of the OU; Mitchel Aeder, Chairman of NCSY; Rabbi Dr. Joshua Joseph, Executive Vice President and COO of the OU; Rabbi Micah Greenland, International Director of NCSY; Miriam L. Wallach and Nachum Segal of the NSN…
Photo: The building for the Eastside Jewish Commons was a former car dealership. The Eastside Jewish Commons has been a work in progress for the past several years and will have a “soft opening” in July. The goal of the EJC is to establish and sustain a vibrant and inclusive Jewish community space on…
On the afternoon of May 28, Oregon State University students received an email containing a letter from the Associated Students of Oregon State University with the subject line: “A message from your student government: ASOSU says Free Palestine!” (Read the complete letter here.) Four members of the ASOSU board signed the letter. Immediately, Andy…
After The Weekly came out last Thursday on May 27, we were contacted by Hannah Sherman, executive director at Greater Portland Hillel and Natan M. Meir, Lorry I. Lokey Chair in Judaic Studies at Portland State University about a video that we had shared. The video contained a social experiment where documentary filmmaker and…
Julie Diamond, who has been at the helm of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation as its executive director since 2010, is retiring and will begin serving the foundation as a consultant starting July 1. (Effective May 1, Chief Financial Officer Chris Vitron began serving as interim CEO and OJCF has begun the search for…
Photo courtesy Focus Features At the beginning of “Final Account,” you realize that this is unlike any other documentary on the Holocaust that you’ve ever watched. It starts with an elderly gentleman, Hugo Gote, singing a song with the verses, “Sharpen the long knives … so that they go better … into the Jewish…
NOTE: Bernard “Bernie” Madoff was the infamous architect of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion, that earned him a 150-year prison term. He died behind bars on April 14, 2021 at the age of 82. Like many great collaborations, it seems like it was “beshert” or destiny that brought…
