WHO: Jewish Theatre Collaborative WHAT: PAGE2STAGE Season WHEN: November 2013-April 2014 WHERE: Milagro Theatre, Mittleman Jewish Community Center, PSU Lincoln Hall SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS: 503-512-0582 or jewishtheatrecollaborative.org The Jewish Theatre Collaborative kicks off its 2013-2014 season with a brand new program format: PAGE2STAGE. This exciting format begins with one book and an invitation for audiences to…
For the past 12 years two Portland sisters have been training companies to use today’s presentation technology to communicate better. Of course in this rapidly evolving era in technology, today’s technology changes constantly, but the sisters and their team stay ahead of the curve. Janine Kurnoff and Lee Lazarus co-manage The Presentation Company, which now…
Tradition (just ask Tevye) is intimately intertwined with Judaism. Yet in Judaism tradition is always evolving and changing (again – ask Tevye!). In our Seniors special section this month, Golde Barde recalls the Old South Portland neighborhood where so many Jewish families lived. The richness of that close-knit community was scattered across the metro area…
Dear Helen, I am 54 and recently reconnected with my first true love on Facebook. We were a couple in high school and would probably have gotten married except for my mother’s interference. Insert vivid fights with her, and bad relationships for me, until I finally met my husband, who reminded me of my first…
Yom Kippur is always a challenging day, although I am not sure that all the reasons I find it challenging are the traditional ones. The rigors are many: fasting, going to the neighborhood shul for Kol Nidre, Yizkor and Ne’ila while trying to keep an eye on my kids, who, like most other secular children,…
I like to joke that Israeli customer service is an oxymoron. If you’re used to an American attitude that “The Customer is Always Right,” you’re going to have to do some major attitude adjustment while in the Holy Land. Don’t get me wrong – I do love living here. I just don’t like the service…
Samuel Barnett, a 27-year-old Portlander, served for two years in the Israeli military as a special forces paratrooper stationed in the West bank and on the Syrian and Lebanon borders. Barnett always felt a strong calling to Israel, but he never dreamed he would end up in the elite 202 Battalion of the paratrooper unit…
As one of the four pilot sites of the national Israel advocacy training program developed over the past year, Portland is poised to put the intensive preparation to the test. This spring about 20 Portlanders attended three programs presented by Israel Action Network Deputy Managing Director David Dabscheck and his assistant Noam Gilboord. The training…
Local artists and art lovers alike eagerly anticipate the annual Portland Open Studios tour, which takes place during the second and third weekends in October, but probably no one is looking forward to it more than Diana Unterspan. Unterspan is a fiber artist who works primarily with wool and silk to create both decorative and…
