Above, painting by Shraga Weil Oregonians will have a rare opportunity to view and purchase Israeli art in Portland in December. Jerusalem’s Safrai Gallery is bringing more than 1,500 pieces of fine art by some 100 contemporary Israeli artists – young and old masters of Israeli art – to Neveh Shalom Dec. 6-9. “This art…
PHOTO: Portland teen Michael Ioffe, back row in glasses, was one of the 2017 recipients of the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award. Jewish teens involved in social action projects are eligible for $36,000 awards from The Helen Diller Family Foundation. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2019 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards. The program…
Photo: From left, Temple Emek Shalom Rabbi Joshua Boettiger (blue T-shirt) and master timber-framer Robert LaPorte (yellow hat) help congregants lift a post and beam section of the sukkah they built without nails. By Mary Silva The sukkah is designed to be both sturdy and vulnerable – offering shelter, but open to the…
The 13th Annual Sephardic Winter Film Series will feature free films followed by a speaker and a Sephardic dessert. Films are shown at 7 pm on the second Tuesday of each month from November 2018 through April 2019 at Ahavath Achim, 3225 SW Barbur Blvd., Portland. Due to a failure of one of the building’s…
The White Elephant Archive, Setting No. 3 explores the legacy of the Holocaust from the perspective of the third generation living in Austria today. Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education presents two performances of this intensely personal, one-man production. Eduard Freudmann uses his family’s archive – which includes poems written by his grandfather…
Kol Shalom-Community for Humanistic Judaism celebrated its 25th Anniversary on Oct. 21 at the Lagunita’s Community Room in Portland. The celebration for Humanistic Judaism in Oregon was planned by Sue Greenspan, Karen Hyatt Sharon Lezin and DeBi Strode, and included music from the Dusty Boys (with Jim Coon sitting in and our Kol Shalom’s “Dusty”…
PHOTO: Members of the Israel Cycling Academy with IDF veterans who were helped through the FIDF Strides program. Photo by Gilad Kavalerchik Supporters of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces concluded an intense six-day bicycle ride through Israel last week. Joining the American FIDF supporters for this cross-county ride, which began on Oct. 13, was…
PHOTO: Young couples thinking of having children are encourage to consider genetic screening. JScreen, the national nonprofit community-based public health initiative dedicated to education and carrier screening for Jewish and other genetic diseases, has joined with the National Gaucher Foundation to mark National Gaucher Awareness Month during October 2018. The NGF is celebrating National Gaucher…
PHOTO: At-risk Bedouin kids from A New Dawn taking part in Good Deeds Day. ‘Change will only come through working together. We are less powerful if we are separate,’ says founder of social program in Israel’s South. By Brian Blum Israel 21c The 30 young men and women studying software development, graphic design and…
SodaStream International LTD. (NASDAQ: SODA) on Oct. 8 announced the launch of the “Holy Turtle” – a massive ocean contraption designed to clean plastic waste from open waters. The innovative device will be initially piloted today in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Roatán, Honduras, as part of a bold ocean clean-up lead by CEO Daniel…
