PHOTO: Rabbi Joshua Stampfer’s Bible class has drawn a full house for the yearlong course. Judaic scholar Professor Christine Hayes will be in Portland for two talks in January. “A world-renowned scholar of the Bible and Talmud and professor at Yale University, she is probably the greatest scholar in Judaica ever to visit Portland,”…
Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl will deliver the 14th annual Gus and Libby Solomon Memorial Lecture Jan. 24. Rabbi Buchdahl serves as senior rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City, the first woman to lead the large Reform congregation in its 180-year history. She also holds the position of senior cantor. In her presentation, “Being…
Jewish philosopher Rabbi Manis Friedman will speak in Portland at 7 pm, Jan. 15, at Chabad Northeast. Statistically religion is known to cause more wars and casualties than it has solved. Could it be that the promise of the afterlife is so much more alluring than what we have here, now? Could it be said…
The Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Works celebrates its 10th anniversary this January in a town of prolific playwrights, abundant actors, innovative dancers, talented designers and adventuresome producers. The festival runs from Jan. 24 to Feb. 3 at various venues around Portland. Since its first festival in 2009, Fertile Ground has welcomed more…
Portland Jewish Film Festival is participating in a global screening of “Who Will Write Our History” to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The screening in Portland will take place at 2 pm on Jan. 27 at the Northwest Film Center’s Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave., Portland. Roberta Grossman’s stunning film “Who Will Write Our…
PHOTO: Jeff Gottfried, husband of Emily Gottfried, z”l, and Portland Human Rights Commissioner Sonia Marie Leikam, present the Emily G. Gottfried Human Rights Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Rabbi Ariel Stone, center. Rabbi Ariel Stone received the Emily G. Gottfried Human Rights Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Portland Human Rights Commission on Dec. 7….
Wonderbag is an ingenious nonelectric slow cooker that uses heat-retention to make a prefect slow cooked meal, including a delicious cholent for Shabbat. But it is also a catalyst for positive change socially and environmentally. The South African invention, is saving lives from smoke inhalation, combating deforestation, providing time for women to work and for…
PBS will broadcast nationally WQED’s locally-produced “Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity,” a free community event, presented and hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to honor the Tree of Life Synagogue victims and first responders. The performance, featuring Itzhak Perlman at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, was taped on Nov. 27, one month after the…
Six13 recently released “Bohemian Chanukah,” a Queen cover, was (re)written to celebrate the festival of lights and pay homage to one of the greatest and most epic songs of all time. The video has amassed over 3.5 million views since its release last week. You can view the video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P30ckBf1wk. Anchored by a strong Jewish identity and driven…
PHOTO: Lishtot TestDrop Pro Ideas for every budget for the last nights of Hanukkah By Abigail Klein Leichman Everyone loves ingenious devices that help us do things more easily or in a more fun way. Consider putting some of these Israeli inventions on your shopping list. 1.Nail It ($12) Nail It helps you avoid injury…
