Celebrity guest star William Shatner entertained and inspired a sold-out crowd of 550 attendees at the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s gala event, A Benefit for the Future on Nov. 14. The Mittleman Jewish Community Center was transformed into an elegant, out-of-this-world location. Mr. Shatner spoke from the heart as he described the act of…
For more than a decade, Jewish Family & Child Service has asked individuals, families and community groups to “adopt” local low-income households by providing much-needed Hanukkah or Christmas gifts. Through the Adopt-a-Family campaign, JFCS matches low-income individuals and families in the Portland area with community members who are willing to pitch in. Last year, the…
Beginning in January, the Institute for Judaic Studies of the Pacific Northwest will partner with the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning to once again offer Melton classes in the metro area. Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, a project of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the largest pluralistic adult Jewish education…
CHABAD CONFERENCE BANQUET – Attending the International Chabad Conference, Rabbi Dov Bialo, standing right, shares a banquet table with partners of Chabad at Reed College and Southeast Portland, as well as relatives representing Chabad in Roslyn, Long Island. From left standing: Roger Fisher, Rabbi Yaakov Reiter, Rabbi Menachem Bialo, Rabbi Yehoshua Werde and Rabbi Dov…
Jewish museum host AIDS Day program Dec. 1 “World AIDS Today: A storytelling Journey through the Ages of HIV” will be presented at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education at 7 pm, Dec. 1. World AIDS Today is a ceremonial nonfiction storytelling project featuring local artists and writers as they explore living…
Through Feb. 28 Three exhibits at OJMCHE: Pointing the Way: The Art of the Torah Pointer; Surviving Remnants; and Florence Saltzman: Painter + Printmaker. Oregon Jewish Musuem and Center for Holocaust Education, 1953 NW Kearney, Portland. ojmche.org or 503-226-3600 Dec. 1 Giving Tuesday: Jewish Federation of Greater Portland hosts a phone-a-thon 6:30-8:30 pm at the…
A Nosh of Jewish Wisdom: Health is wealth. If you want family togetherness, make it fun Dear Helen: I’m a nerdy middle-schooler who’s more into people than gadgets, clothes or social media. My parents got divorced five years ago when I was in elementary school. Now they’re OK around each other after they each married…
Left: Community Relations Director Bob Horenstein; Right: Jewish Federation of Greater Portland CEO Marc Blattner The past few weeks have been quite challenging. The Jewish Federation learned that on Oct. 7, the Portland Human Rights Commission (HRC) voted unanimously to support a proposal by Occupation Free-Portland to push city leaders to block city investments in four companies (Hewlett…
Last year the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland provided a start-up three-year grant of $30,000 to help launch Hillel at Oregon State University. Under the professional leadership of Oregon Hillel Foundation Executive Director Andy Gitelson and his team at Oregon Hillel, the program has quickly gotten off the ground. “Given that we are able to…
When Lenny Hoffman moved to the Westmoreland neighborhood, Southeast Portland Chabad (jewishreed.com) near Reed College was a natural. Raised in an Orthodox home, he quickly became the shul’s shammos. He wanted to donate something special that blended simplicity, family and Judaism. A talented artist and cabinet maker, he decided to build and donate a Torah…
