Oregon Jewish Life has been selected as one of the Top 10 Best Jewish Magazines on the web by Feedspot.com. The top 10 list was chosen from thousands of Jewish magazines on the web using search and social metrics. Oregon Jewish Life was the first non-national magazine on the list, coming in at number 7….
“We’ve now shown that inexpensive, commercial electronic noses are sufficient for classifying cancer patients at early stages.” ~ Professor Yehuda Zeiri, Ben-Gurion University Researchers have discovered that exhaled breath and urine samples can provide a fast and inexpensive breast cancer diagnosis. This early and accurate breast cancer screening is being done using commercially available…
PHOTO: Lodz Ghetto. Boy walking to deportation in a group, wearing cap, satchel and backpack, February 1944. Photo by Henryk Ross. ©Art Gallery of Ontario, gift from the Archive of Modern Conflict. “I buried my negatives in the ground in order that there should be some record of our tragedy.” ~ Henryk Ross This…
From left: SWU Pacific-Northwest Campus Coordinator Matt Levin at the August conference with SWU Emerson Fellows: Jackson Anderson-Kovacs, Oregon State University; Chasen Daniels, University of Oregon; and Moussa Kone, Portland State University. StandWithUs Northwest is poised to again meet the challenges of the 2018-19 school year with its campus Emerson Fellows and High…
By Lenny Steinberg From Aug. 5 to 10, 16 athletes and artists traveled to Southern California to participate in the 2018 JCC Maccabi Games and ArtsFest to represent Team Oregon. They joined 3,047 athletes, artists, coaches and delegation heads as they marched into Santa Ana Stadium in Orange County, CA, on Aug. 5 for…
Maimonides Jewish Day School in Southwest Portland announces Oregon’s second annual Hanukkah essay contest. All Oregon students in third to sixth grades are encouraged to reflect on and write an essay on the topic, “What Freedom Means to Me.” The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland is a contest partner. The contest has sections for third-fourth…
The eighth annual Many Stories, One Community: Portland Jewish Book Celebration begins with a focus on one book: The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, by David Fishman. The Book Smugglers is the true, nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents of Vilna, who rescued thousands of rare…
PHOTO: Garry and Judith Kahn By Priscilla Kostiner Judith and Garry Kahn’s commitment to community will be recognized this month when they receive the Rabbi Joshua Stampfer Community Enrichment Award (see details below). The Kahns are well known throughout the community for the many roles they have played in both religious and secular circles. The…
PHOTO: Cedar Sinai Park Executive Chef John Morris Residents at Cedar Sinai Park will taste the difference as John Morris, CEC, becomes the senior care organization’s executive chef. Morris oversees food service and nutrition programs for the assisted-living, long-term care and rehabilitation facilities on the nonprofit’s Southwest Portland campus. European trained in classical cuisines,…
Technology is a tool, and we get to choose how we use it. By Rabbi Ken Brodkin Last August, my family spent a weekend at the Oregon coast. I was scheduled to be back in the office on Monday, but we booked a couple of extra nights thinking I could get online and get some…
