PHOTO: Sarah Gertrude Shapiro talks to actors Josh Kelly and Caitlin FitzGerald during filming of UnREAL. Sarah Gertrude Shapiro escaped her job as a producer on “The Bachelor” to find true love and professional and personal success. After a couple of years in Portland communing with horses to restore her equilibrium, Sarah is now living…
PHOTO: Gregory, Nina, Maya, Leo and Talia Schwartz at Maya’s bat mitzvah in March 2018. Maya’s Torah portion Ki Tissa discusses belief, patience and celebrating the covenant with G-d – all ideas her mom found especially relevant during cancer treatment. Planning a bat mitzvah while in the midst of breast cancer treatment might sound…
PHOTO: Jeff Gottfried, husband of Emily Gottfried, z”l, and Portland Human Rights Commissioner Sonia Marie Leikam, present the Emily G. Gottfried Human Rights Awards Lifetime Achievement Award to Rabbi Ariel Stone, center. Rabbi Ariel Stone received the Emily G. Gottfried Human Rights Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Portland Human Rights Commission on Dec. 7….
PHOTO: Mentor Arlene Cogen, left, and Sarah Howard connect at a gathering of PDX Pathways, a networking and mentoring group for young professionals. Sarah says, “Arlene’s impact on me as a mentor was huge.” Who says you can’t buy happiness? Drawing on the neuroscience of giving and her own experiences in philanthropy, Arlene Cogen…
PHOTO: Women’s Giving Circle members, from left: Wendy Kahn, Felicia Rosenthal, Lora Meyer, Faye Samuels, Helene Cogen, Judy Freeman, Joyce Mendelsohn and (not pictured) Mia Birk, Kathy Davis Weiner, Sharon Ungerleider. Photo by Deborah Moon “Everyone brings their own perspectives. We don’t all come from the same page, but through meaningful discussion, we land…
PHOTO: Nili as a child with her father, Charlie Schiffman, z”l Nili Isenberg didn’t set out to be part of a musical movement to encourage other young Jews to appreciate Jewish prayer and attend synagogue – it was an organic occurrence. Nili grew up in Portland, the daughter of Charlie Schiffman, z”l, who…
“We’ve now shown that inexpensive, commercial electronic noses are sufficient for classifying cancer patients at early stages.” ~ Professor Yehuda Zeiri, Ben-Gurion University Researchers have discovered that exhaled breath and urine samples can provide a fast and inexpensive breast cancer diagnosis. This early and accurate breast cancer screening is being done using commercially available…
Active lifestyles require nutrition to support your body; now snacks can be part of that healthy diet. Two women have introduced options for flavorful, fun snacks that have enough protein to fuel your active life. Energy Bars Triathlete and outdoors enthusiast Kellie Lee began researching clean eating as she sought new ways of fueling her…
An avid runner, dancer and yoga instructor, Elyse Kaye says being “overly blessed” in terms of breast size made it impossible to find a sports bra that supported her active lifestyle. Fortunately, she had the support of her Jewish community when she decided to take on the challenge of developing a sports bra that enabled…
We are all used to the saying, “50% of marriages end in divorce,” but recent research pins the figure between 42-45%. The main contributing factor seems to be that fewer people are getting married. Many are opting to live together instead of tying the knot. There is one demographic, however, where divorce rates seem to…
