Another benefit of WILD has been the cross-cultural understanding that evolves during the delegates’ home stays with families in Eugene. Rabbi Yitzhak and Shonna Husbands-Hankin hosted deaf delegate Hanan Mohsen Ibrahim Aly from Cairo, Egypt. “We had many meaningful interactions,” says Shonna. “We showed her around, including a painting of a Middle Eastern woman releasing…
As a child we lived with my grandparents in a red brick apartment complex in Queens, NY. I remember the pleasure of sitting on my Papa’s lap as he imbued me with love, kindness and wisdom. My grandfather Louis Blumenstock was a well-known philanthropist who founded the Hyam Salomon Home for the Aged. Later in…
Felicia Cohen was born in Maryland and raised in an Orthodox home in Hollywood, FL, where there was a large, thriving Jewish community. She went to Jewish day school and the family walked to their Sephardic synagogue. Oregon, never mind Grants Pass, was not on her radar screen. Felicia’s father was a businessman and mom…
As they come of age, these young people follow their passions to help others The bar and bat mitzvah process is filled with learning, faith and celebration. For many Oregon students another important aspect is finding a community service project that resonates with them. In this way, bar and bat mitzvah students not only prepare…
Response one: “If I’m healthy and have a good diet and exercise regularly, I can stay fertile past 40. I keep reading about women having babies after 40, why not me?” Fact: A woman’s fertility has already started into mild decline by her late 20s. It declines more sharply in her late 30s. Between 40…
Lynda Falkenstein: “Ignorance is definitely not bliss” In 2000 Dr. Lynda Falkenstein was diagnosed with breast cancer as her mother was dying of ovarian cancer 25 years after she survived breast cancer. Knowing that a long list of relatives had died from ovarian cancer, Falkenstein says she realized “my cancer could not be random ……
The Oregon Public Health Genetics program has received a grant to educate members of the Jewish community about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and their potential for increased risk of developing those cancers. “This program worked on education materials, contracted with a geneticist from OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University) to create a presentation and training targeted…
ROBISON PICNIC – The Aug. 1 Cedar Sinai Park Community Barbeque at Robison Jewish Health Center included live music, cotton candy, a bouncy house, face painting, and hot food and cool drinks. Above right, Robison residents distributed school supplies to grade-school-aged children of staff. Robison residents, seated from left, Edith Levitt and Ruth Omenn, with…
Maimonides Day School ready to grow up During the week of Aug. 13 one of the buildings on the campus of Maimonides Jewish Day School was lifted off its foundation to prepare for an expansion that will use a new “daylight lower level” of 1000 square feet, for classrooms, a multi-purpose room, and administrative and…
Dear Helen: Every year I go to temple for the High Holidays, and every year I wonder why I don’t go more often. I came from a family that went to services often, but the older (and busier!) I get, the less time I seem to have for spiritual matters. Is there a way I…
