“Everyone I saw in the sanctuary was either swaying to the music, clapping to the tune, nodding to the beat, and/or singing along. I cannot remember a Friday night service I enjoyed more or one where I felt as ‘moved’ towards starting the Sabbath. I actually was whistling the prayers and your music for the…
A few years ago I read an interview with one of Israel’s biggest film distributors. When asked what movie genres he preferred to bring to Israel, he replied simply: romantic comedies. The Israeli taste in movies just doesn’t seem to include horror movies, he explained. Horror movies, over the years, just didn’t seem to draw…
The economic downturn has meant that many storefronts that used to say “art gallery” now say “for lease.” By almost any measure, these are challenging times for artists and galleries.
Art therapy offers adolescents an alternative method for exploring personal problems and emotional issues. Linda Zahavi, a national and board certified art therapist and active member of Portland’s Congregation P’nai Or, has a growing local practice on Southwest Boones Ferry Road. She uses art therapy as an effective means for patients to explore their feelings…
When the Nazis brutally emptied the Lvov Ghetto in 1943, a small group of Polish Jews had several frantic seconds to make a life-or-death choice: The hell above or the hell below. Following shouted orders meant deportation to the death camps, although they didn’t know that. What they could be certain of was that the…
4.7 million dollars. That’s how much the most profitable artist in Israel made in the past Hebrew year (5771), according to Forbes. Any guess who that artist might be? For most Israelis, it wouldn’t be too hard to guess: Eyal Golan, the most successful Mizrahi singer in Israel’s history. In fact, all the top seven…
