PHOTOS: Above, Saxophonist Eli Degibri from Israel; right, Biamp PDX Jazz Festival Artistic Director Don Lucoff. The Biamp PDX Jazz Festival (formerly known as the Portland Jazz Festival) is Portland’s most renowned celebration of jazz music. Every year, the event features some of the finest international and local acts. Recently, jazz festivals in other cities…
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…
Pictured above: “Wildlife PhotograBear” by Roie Galitz was “highly commended” in the 2018 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Photo courtesy of Roie Galitz By Abigail Klein Leichman It’s easy to see why a funny picture of a polar bear with sophisticated photography gear won Israeli photographer Roie Galitz a “highly commended” spot in the 2018 Comedy…
The Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Works celebrates its 10th anniversary this January in a town of prolific playwrights, abundant actors, innovative dancers, talented designers and adventuresome producers. The festival runs from Jan. 24 to Feb. 3 at various venues around Portland. Since its first festival in 2009, Fertile Ground has welcomed more…
UPDATE JAN. 10: The public cast nearly 17,000 votes for the Top 12 Jewish Star Talent Search finalists! Amazingly, there was a tie in the 14-18 age bracket – so there are SEVEN Jewish Star Grand Prize winners! 14-18 Bracket winners: Ellie Fern (Scottsdale, AZ), Andrew Goldstein (McKinney, TX), Noah Levine (Austin, TX), Marc Luban…
Six13 recently released “Bohemian Chanukah,” a Queen cover, was (re)written to celebrate the festival of lights and pay homage to one of the greatest and most epic songs of all time. The video has amassed over 3.5 million views since its release last week. You can view the video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P30ckBf1wk. Anchored by a strong Jewish identity and driven…
ABOVE: Michael Mendelson. “Everybody” Design by Jeff Hayes, Kisha Jarrett and Mary Beth Leavens Artists Repertory Theatre presents Everybody, an inventive twist on a medieval morality play (see schedule below). Death tells Everybody that their time is up. But Everybody doesn’t want to greet Death alone, so Everybody seeks the company of their friends Stuff,…
PHOTO: Red-ruffed lemurs Thalia and Calliope exploring their new habitat. Photo by Kelsey Wallace, courtesy of the Oregon Zoo. The Oregon Zoo welcomed two red-ruffed lemurs this week, bringing the total number in the conspiracy — the name for a group of lemurs — to seven. At 2 years old, twin sisters Thalia and Calliope…
PHOTO: Kim Stafford, PhD, Oregon’s ninth poet laureate, speaks to students at Maimonides Jewish Day School on Election Day 2018. He is the director of Lewis & Clark College’s Northwest Writing Institute and has published 20 books of poetry and prose. Photos by Deborah Moon “After the last election, I devoted myself to healing…
PHOTO: Elizabeth Rynecki holds her great-grandfather’s self-portrait at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Photo by Sławomir Grünberg Holocaust scholar shares her quest to find her great-grandfather’s lost creations Polish artist Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943) completed more than 800 paintings and sculptures before being incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto and ultimately perishing in the Majdanek concentration…
