Photo: Volunteers packing Thanksgiving Food Boxes prior to the pandemic. This month, Jewish Family & Child Service is continuing its 20-year tradition of brightening the season for families and individuals of all ages, including greater Portland’s Holocaust Survivors, experiencing hard times. Their Thanksgiving Food Boxes and Family-to-Family (previously Adopt-a-Family) programs give hundreds of people…
Effective Nov. 1, Sarah Bellum’s Bakery & Workshop is now a certified kosher bakery. “It’s been a long process for us, and we’re so excited to make yummy treats for every more of our community to enjoy!” says a statement on their Twitter page. Sarah Bellum’s is a social enterprise bakery that supports adults…
During the week of November 8, Bank of America is sponsoring delivery costs for more than 300 homebound seniors and adults living with disabilities through Store to Door’s Support-A-Week program. As a longtime partner in Store to Door’s program work, and a Support-A-Week partner since 2018, Bank of America has played a key role…
Nearly two years since becoming a global pandemic that has killed millions of people, the mystery of which proteins in the SARS-CoV-2 virus are responsible for severe vascular damage that could even lead to heart attack or stroke has not yet been solved. Now, for the first time, a team of experts led by…
More than 1500 attendees participated in “The Road to Resilience,” a virtual US-Israel conference held on November 2 and aimed at exploring cutting-edge ways of mitigating social crises in the post-Covid reality. It was organized by Latet Israeli Humanitarian Aid, the largest nonprofit combatting poverty and food insecurity in Israel. The first conference of…
Photo: Survivor and Museum Volunteer Esther Starobin will be one of the speakers at the “How To Talk To Kids About The Holocaust” virtual event. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Western Region Next Gen and Friends presents “How To Talk To Kids About The Holocaust” virtual event on Thursday, November 4, at 5:30…
A novel approach to treating type 2 diabetes is being developed at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The disease, caused by insulin resistance and reduction of cells’ ability to absorb sugar, is characterized by increased blood sugar levels. Its long-term complications include heart disease, strokes, damage to the retina that can result…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is up there with the rings of Saturn and the blue marble of Earth for solar system icon status. In a study published today in Science, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers and their collaborators on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter report that this spot – really a giant, persistent storm…
A new survey conducted for Hillel International and ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) found that antisemitism is a looming and present threat for Jewish college students, with one in three students personally experiencing antisemitic hate directed at them in the last academic year. The nationally representative survey also found that most students who experienced antisemitic…
Photo: Participants at the Masa Live at 18 event. Thousands of Masa Israel Journey Fellows, alumni, partners and community members came together on October 20, 2021, at Hayarkon Park in Israel to celebrate the start of Masa Israel Journey’s 2021-22 programming year and Masa’s 18th year anniversary of transformative work. Since its 2004 founding…
