This year Hanukkah coincides with the holiday that is the focus for the majority of Americans. Hanukkah lights and Christmas lights will be intermingled around town. Downtown Portland will have a Christmas tree in Pioneer Square and Chabad’s enormous Hanukkah menorah just three blocks away at Director Park, 815 SW Park Ave. This will be…
Central Oregon Jewish teens have submitted an application to form a new BBYO chapter called Shalom Teva. Naomi Chudowsky, Ralph Uri and Jerry Greenbach will serve as advisors for the new chapter. BBYO is a pluralistic Jewish teen movement aspiring to involve more Jewish teens in more meaningful Jewish experiences. BBYO’s leadership programs have provided…
Jewish Family & Child Service has identified about 50 families or individuals in need of a little holiday cheer this year. JFCS hopes the community will come forward and provide holiday gifts for those people, who include the following: • This 80-year-old Holocaust survivor lives independently. She has no family in Oregon, and she depends…
B’nai B’rith Camp in Oregon received the Gail Littman Memorial Legacy Stewardship Award for their excellence in stewardship of their Etz Chaim Society during the 12th annual conference of JCamp 180, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation. The Etz Chaim Legacy Society honors and recognizes individuals who are committed to the future and sustainability…
For Hanukkah parties, menorah lightings and other holiday family activities, see our Hanukkah Roundup on page 26. Dec. 3 & Jan. 7 KIDS NIGHT OUT WITH BB CAMP: 5-9 pm. Come hang out with your friends and give your parents the night off! K-6th Graders. $25, $5 sibling discount. Drop off at BB Camp Office,…
Museum fundraiser presents Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin This year’s annual theater fundraiser for the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is not only a theater event, it is a musical tour of Jewish and American history. OJMCHE presents Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin at the Dec. 18 matinee at Portland Center Stage…
Through Dec. 30 Hershey Felder is Irving Berlin at Portland Center Stage. Experience the remarkable story of “America’s Composer.” Felder takes us from the depths of anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia to New York’s Lower East Side – and ultimately throughout America and the world. 503-445-3700, pcs.org Through Jan. 1 Exhibit: Andy Warhol: Prints from the…
The Forward picks Ilene Safyan song On Sept. 26 Portland musician Ilene Safyan was named to the final playlist of the Forward’s second Soundtrack of Our Spirit. The soundtrack is a reader-inspired digital project to find the best new voices in Jewish music. After tallying thousands of votes from readers and consulting with celebrity judges…
One of the most important films of the Soviet era and a new companion piece about the film will share the spotlight at the Northwest Film Center this month. Filmed in 1966 and ’67, but kept from release for 20 years, “The Commissar” will be screened in Portland at 4 pm, Nov. 20, at NWFC’s…
Oregon Jewish Life Publisher Cindy Saltzman was among the 2,100 activists and leaders who descended on Washington, DC, Sept. 24-26 for the Israeli-America Council’s sold out national conference. Israeli and Jewish Americans gathered for three energizing days of inspiring lectures, workshops, panels and activities presented by 180 thought leaders from across the nation, Israel and…
