By Gail Mandel With the completion of the community’s second successful year in the Life & Legacy planned giving program, the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation has announced its commitment to continue sponsoring the initiative in Oregon and Southwest Washington through 2017. This exciting development is possible thanks to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s strategic decision to…
Ashland Havurah hosts seminar on love Havurah Synagogue in Ashland will host Marianne Williamson for a three-hour seminar entitled “Love as a Spiritual Revolution.” An internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer, Marianne will share insights from her bestselling book A Return to Love from 6:30 to 9:30 pm, Feb. 11, at the Mountain Avenue Theatre…
Through Feb 28 Three exhibits continue at Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, 1953 NW Kearney, Portland. Pointing the Way: The Art of the Torah Pointer; Surviving Remnents; and Florence Saltzman: Painter + Printmaker. 503-226-3600 or ojmche. Feb 1 PJ Library Hillsboro Story Hour. Every Monday. 10-10:45 am at Yo Zone, 18033 NW…
After rough year, get your mojo back by engaging the world Dear Helen: I’m finally ready to start dating after five years “off the market.” I had two failed marriages. After each I wanted five years of my life back, so I waited and did a lot of counseling so I wouldn’t repeat the same…
Last January, a friend from my congregation, P’nai Or, loaned me Naomi Klein’s latest book, This Changes Everything, Capitalism vs Climate. My friend had found the book too depressing to finish. The title had been scribbled on a piece of paper magnetized to my refrigerator door for months, so I borrowed my friend’s book. By…
After being crushed by the Nazis and further diminished by Soviet-era communism, it hardly seems likely that Warsaw, Poland, could nourish anything resembling a thriving Jewish community today. And yet, support for Jewish culture is emerging from some very unlikely sources. Last summer, Eugene’s Rabbi Boris Dolin and his wife, Sarah, left Oregon to accept…
Courtesy of Chabad of Oregon Appearances can be deceiving. Brooklyn-born Berel Gurevitch may look and sound like a native New Yorker, but he’s traveled the world building knowledge and experience serving Jewish communities, a skill set he’ll put to good use at the University of Oregon this year. Both Berel and his wife, Rivky, grew…
OPB screens “The Jewish Frontier” at MJCC before on air premiere Experience: “The Jewish Frontier” will air at 9 pm, Jan. 25 on OPB TV. Oregon Public Broadcasting also will present an advance community screening of the show at 7 pm, Jan. 19, in the Stern Family Ballroom of the Mittleman Jewish Community Center (6651…
Through Jan. 31 Papercut exhibit at MJCC. See page 54 Through Feb. 28 Three exhibits continue at OJMCHE: Pointing the Way: The Art of the Torah Pointer; Surviving Remnants; and Florence Saltzman: Painter + Printmaker. Ojmche.org or 503-226-3600 Jan. 4 PJ Library Hillsboro Story Hour. 10-11 am every Monday at Yo Zone, 18033 NW Evergreen…
Dear Helen: I had a really rough year in 2015. I lost a beloved friend and a beloved pet. I had medical issues that were difficult to diagnose and to cure. I had to cut far back on my social life to accommodate all the immediacies of family and healing. Now I am feeling isolated,…
