Portland’s Jewish community was enriched by decades of dedicated service when Canadian Laurie David came to town to visit her aunts in 1964 and fell in love with Portland native Bert Rogoway on a blind date. This month, Laurie Rogoway retires after 30 years of building community through her work at the Jewish Federation of…
Compassion & Choices honors Reneé Holzman Compassion & Choices Oregon honored Reneé Holzman (right, with Charlene Zidell of the CCO advisory board and Oregon Attorneys for Dignity, and Min Zidell, center) at its 17th annual fundraising luncheon Oct. 8 at the Multnomah Club. The 320 attendees raised $135,000, including a $50,000 donation from the Zidell…
Robert Cohen knows the value of reliable resources. He’s used available resources to meet his goals throughout life, and now he’s providing reliable staffing resources for small and midsized companies in the Portland metro area. In August Cohen opened PrideStaff, a staffing agency that as a franchise draws on both corporate resources and the benefits…
Just weeks after the conclusion of Operation Protective Edge, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz’s book eloquently defending Israel’s actions against Hamas in Gaza this summer was released as an e-book. Now Terror Tunnels: The Case for Israel’s Just War Against Hamas is being released in hardcover Nov. 18 by publisher RosettaBooks.com. In the…
The week after Jewish forensic pathologist Judy Melinek, M.D., and her husband, T.J. Mitchell, released their jointly authored Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner, the book hit the New York Times nonfiction best seller list. It might have been America’s infatuation with shows such as “CSI” and “NCIS,”…
I have been a member of a few book clubs over the years. I start out with the best intentions of finishing the book in a timely manner. But alas, invariably I find myself letting busy schedules get in my way. I show up anyway only to quietly sip my wine and try to come…
Leslie and Eva Aigner understand the power of history. And they believe that sharing stories from the past, no matter how horrible, can help create a better future. “We tell our story so that people can change their thinking,” Eva says. “If you don’t know what caused the Holocaust, it could repeat itself.” The Aigners,…
Life expectancy has increased to more than 80 years in many parts of the world, according to professor Alon Friedman, a neurophysiologist and neurosurgeon. Friedman is chairman of the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, a center of excellence at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva, Israel. Many neurological disorders increase with age, and Friedman and…
Kryszek also was part of a delegation of local survivors who returned to Poland to collect soil and ash to be interred at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Washington Park. “This trip was made at great emotional expense to each of the survivors,” says Kaner. Fellow survivor Miriam Greenstein adds, “No matter what we’re doing…
Estelle Wexler remembers a time when there were many activities for seniors. “The Greenwood Inn in Beaverton used to have a seniors Shabbat luncheon; that’s how I met everybody I knew when I moved here 25 years ago. The JCC also had a lot of programs that were good for seniors. We used to go…
