Got a bunch of plarn balls the size of heads hanging around? Who you gonna call? Positive Charge! Southwest Portland volunteer group Positive Charge! is getting behind a “plarn” project for homeless neighbors. During their next meeting on Sunday, March 31, from 2 to 4 pm, the group will host a workshop for all crocheters…
Cedar Sinai Park will host Art Without Passports, a free series of art presentations for artists and non-artists alike. The Oregon Society of Artists is presenting this free series in Zidell Hall at Rose Schnitzer Manor. The programs are open to all. The series will meet three Thursday mornings from 10:30-11:45. Arts activist and studio…
A family member of a victim of the massacre at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue has created “2 for Seder,” aimed at tackling anti-Semitism at the grassroots level. The 2 for Seder event encourages Jewish families to welcome two non-Jews into their seder to experience first-hand the most celebrated Jewish holiday of the year…
Bari Weiss. Photo by Sam Bloom UPDATE: Bari Weiss resigned from the New York Times on July 14, 2020. Read here resignation letter here. In an increasingly polarized world, New York Times Opinion Editor Bari Weiss stays unflinchingly moderate. In the face of a radicalized right and left, Bari attributes her outspoken centrism to “stubbornness…
Cedar Sinai Park’s Life Enrichment Department has challenged, entertained and amused residents with diverse lectures, musical performances and presentations for 20 years. Now the senior living campus will open its Tuesday evening lectures and many other goings on at Rose Schnitzer Manor to our friends in the Jewish community. The price is free and all…
HISTORIC IMAGES, ABOVE: Alan Zell performing with a skating club at the Lloyd Center in 1965. (OJM5905) AT RIGHT: 1894 Flood at Meier & Frank Building (OJM3270) BOTTOM: Uniformed Neighborhood House dancers performing in gym with onlookers seated around and above on balcony, c 1927. OJM124 Visit the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust…
Revolutionary Jewish composer, author and teacher Joey Weisenberg will be in Portland this month when Congregation Shaarie Torah hosts a musical Shabbaton for President’s Day Weekend Feb. 15-17. Joey is the creative director of Mechon Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, which seeks to empower Jewish community-building through music. The young composer and writer has been likened…
PHOTOS: Lodz Ghetto photographs by Polish Jewish photojournalist Hernryk Ross on exhibit through Feb. 25 at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. Jewish Ghetto Photographers: Reimagining the Holocaust will be the topic of the Alan Ostrow Memorial lecture at the Portland Art Museum. Judith Cohen, director of photo archives at the United…
FEB. 10 MJCC SUMMER DAY CAMP INFO FAIR: 10 am-1 pm, at the MJCC, 6651 SW Capitol Hwy., Portland. Learn about the MJCC Summer Day Camp programs, register, and meet camp staff. 503-535-3555 FEB. 17 FAMILY FLICKS: AN AMERICAN TAIL: 3 pm at the MJCC. An afternoon of family fun with An American Tail (Rated G)…
OPENING EVENT RESCHEDULED FROM FEB. 10 TO FEB. 17 due to weather. PHOTO: From left, Rabbi Emeritus Joshua Stampfer, Senior Rabbi David Kosak and Rabbi Emeritus Daniel Isaak visit during an event at Neveh Shalom, where each has served as senior rabbi. The congregation’s clergy also includes Assistant Rabbi Eve Posen and Cantor Eyal Bitton….
