PHOTO: On Jan. 2, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, z”l, (left) helped lay the cornerstone for the new Rehabilitation Center at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, unveiling The Lokomat, a state-of-the art robotic treadmill machine donated by the IFCJ. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 67, died suddenly Feb. 6 at…
HISTORIC IMAGES, ABOVE: Alan Zell performing with a skating club at the Lloyd Center in 1965. (OJM5905) AT RIGHT: 1894 Flood at Meier & Frank Building (OJM3270) BOTTOM: Uniformed Neighborhood House dancers performing in gym with onlookers seated around and above on balcony, c 1927. OJM124 Visit the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust…
PHOTOS: The Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Isaac Herzog greeting the new immigrants from Ethiopia at Ben Gurion Airport. Photos courtesy of JAFI; photo at right by Dror Sithakol for JAFI After years of waiting, the dream of Aliyah has come true for 83 Ethiopian immigrants (Olim) who landed at Ben Gurion Airport Monday, Feb….
IMAGES: Above: Piece by David Kolasky, glass blower, ceramaticist, wood turner and welder; and Shabbat Cat, watercolor, by Tamar Hammer. Right: Tropical Flower, by Ellen Green. Celebrate Jewish Arts Month at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center. Each week, from Feb. 24 through March 29, the works of different artists will be on display in the…
This charcoal portrait of Darrell Grant will be one of many portrait paintings and drawings by Portland artist Diane Russell coinciding with this year’s Portland Jazz festival. Grant is being honored as the 2019 Portland Jazz Master. Portraits will be on display Feb 1-28 at the Art Bar in Antoinette Hatfield Hall, 1111 SW Broadway,…
Revolutionary Jewish composer, author and teacher Joey Weisenberg will be in Portland this month when Congregation Shaarie Torah hosts a musical Shabbaton for President’s Day Weekend Feb. 15-17. Joey is the creative director of Mechon Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, which seeks to empower Jewish community-building through music. The young composer and writer has been likened…
PHOTOS: Lodz Ghetto photographs by Polish Jewish photojournalist Hernryk Ross on exhibit through Feb. 25 at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Jewish Ghetto Photographers: Reimagining the Holocaust will be the topic of the Alan Ostrow Memorial lecture at the Portland Art Museum. Judith Cohen, director of photo archives at the United…
HMO recommends new screening protocol worldwide Story and photo courtesy of Hadassah Researchers at Hadassah Medical Organization in Israel have linked the essential role of the BRCA2 gene to puberty and healthy ovary development and function, announced Ellen Hershkin, National President, Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America Inc., which owns two world-class research hospitals…
PHOTO: Delegation head Lenny Steinberg leads Team Oregon into the opening ceremonies of the 2018 JCC Maccabi Games and ArtsFest held in California. Over the last few years, the Mittleman Jewish Community Center has taken about 60 teens to participate in the JCC Maccabi Experience. Team Oregon has had tremendous success in both the…
Michael W. Twitty, a James Beard Award-winning author, independent scholar, culinary historian and historical interpreter, will be this year’s featured speaker at the Friends of the Center Brunch. His talk is entitled “Kosher Soul and The Cooking Gene.” (See event information below) The annual fundraiser for the Mittleman Jewish Community Center also will honor new…
