In what has become Portland’s favorite outdoor concert of the summer season, Portland Summerfest’s Opera in the Park presents its 17th annual opera extravaganza at 6 pm, Aug. 4. Admission is free. Thousands of attendees will bask in the evening air in the outdoor Washington Park Amphitheater as Metropolitan Opera star Angela Meade returns to the SummerFest stage, singing…
PHOTOS: An estimated 5,000 people marched in last summer’s Walk with Refugees & Immigrants. Photos from 2018 walk courtesy of Portland Parks & Recreation. Top photo by Melisa Crosby, below by Mick Hangland and Ben Brink, right. The third annual Walk with Refugees & Immigrants will be in Northeast Portland July 21 (see details below)….
Critically acclaimed, pioneering bluegrass band Nefesh Mountain will perform at The Old Church Concert Hall on July 31. Doors open at 7 pm, show starts at 8:00. The group last performed in Portland in 2017 for the MJCC’s outdoor summer concert series. Nefesh Mountain are on a 26-city tour from April to August of 2019. The group…
PHOTOS: Campers participate in last summer’s pilot ORT’s Start-up Challenge designed to introduce Jewish campers to Israeli innovation. Now campers at six Jewish camps are participating in the challenge. ORT brings Israeli innovation and interactive technology to Jewish summer campers Building on the success of last year’s pioneer program, this summer ORT will once again…
PHOTO: 151 young Jewish leaders from 30 countries participate in ROI Summit in Jerusalem. Top photo by Chen Wagschall; photo at right by Snir Kazir. One hundred fifty-one of the Jewish world’s leading young innovators from 30 countries spanning six continents convened in Jerusalem to reflect, ideate and collaborate at the 2019 ROI Summit,…
PHOTO: Left to right -Moshe Nafisi, BZ Ingber, Kolev Klein, Moshe Bloch compete in SKILL’IT Cook Off Hosted by Comedian Elon Gold. Cook Off will premiere on Kosher.com on July 4th weekend. New web series SKILL’IT premieres July 4 on Kosher.com It’s a chef-eat-chef world out there. When Kosher.com announced SKILL’IT West Coast, the latest…
PHOTOS: American VFI volunteers from the pilot group of Birthright alumni. The new program is open to Birthright alumni still in college. Photos courtesy of Volunteers for Israel. Volunteers for Israel announced a new program that will bring Birthright alumni from colleges across the United States back to Israel to volunteer on Israel Defense…
PHOTO: Rescued river otter pups Flora and Hobson. Photo by Michael Durham, courtesy of the Oregon Zoo. The fluffy, squeaky river otters who arrived last month at the Oregon Zoo now have names. The 3-month-old orphaned pups will be called Flora and Hobson, after Oregon waterways Floras Lake and Hobson Creek. “A lot of the…
Julie Hammond presents the Portland premiere of her show “Other Inland Empires” at Portland Playhouse June 26-30, 2019. When writer/director Julie Hammond learned that Gidget, the quintessential California girl and 1950s spark of a global surf boom, was really the Jewish daughter of Austro-Hungarian refugees, she began to imagine events in reverse. What would happen…
This summer, the 21st Annual JAW: A Playwrights Festival brings three new plays to The Armory for two weeks of script workshopping that will culminate in the JAW Big Weekend, where public staged readings of the scripts will be presented along with performances from local artists and classes. This year’s plays are Otto Frank by…
