PHOTO: Lior Ben-Hur and Sol Tevel will perform on the MJCC lawn in June. When the sun arrives after months of rain and gray skies, Oregonians can’t wait to head outdoors. Wineries and golf resorts abound for adults seeking some fresh air. In addition to plenty of wonderful places to experience nature, several venues offer…
Photo: The Fried children enjoy a beach outing. Family travel is great but can be costly, exhausting and challenging to find the time between everyone’s schedules for a full-blown trip. Luckily, staycations can make staying put just as fun as exploring a new destination. There is so much to do in and around Portland. Here…
A Nosh of Jewish Wisdom: How lovely is the sun after rain and how lovely is laughter after sorrow. Dear Helen: I’m a single mom with a 14-year-old son. We have a great relationship. I’d like to take him traveling next summer: Europe, Morocco, Thailand and as many cool places as we can explore…
Photo: Headdresses at last year’s Wildhorse Powwow. The 24th Annual Wildhorse Powwow will be July 6-8. wildhorseresort.com Some say the Blue Mountains of Northeast Oregon, a vast lava flow that emanated from fissures in the earth, are the foothills of the Rockies. The escarpment rises abruptly from 1,000 feet at Pendleton to 3,600 at the…
BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COMPANY Tigard, OR • 503-620-5262 • broadwayrose.org Summer performances – “Mamma Mia!” (June 27-July 22) and “Guys and Dolls” (Aug. 2-19) – will be performed at the Deb Fennell Auditorium (at Tigard High School), 9000 Durham Road in Tigard. Broadway Rose has been producing professional musical theatre in the Portland area since…
The Portland Boys 16 and Under Basketball Team won Gold and the Boys 16 and Under Lacrosse Mixed Team won Silver at this year’s JCC Maccabi Games held in Miami Aug. 6-11. The Mittleman Jewish Community Center took a group of 17 athletes (six returning and 11 new) from Portland to participate in the JCC…
PHOTO: The winners of last year’s Kishka Klassic, from left: Jonathan Singer, Evan Bernstein, Les Gutfreund and Brad Stern. On Sept. 10, NCSY will host its 4th annual Kishka Klassic Golf Tournament. The event is set up as a four-person scramble and includes 18 holes of golf, green fees, golf carts, a BBQ lunch, a dessert…
You always need to assume someone’s looking over your shoulder when you’re using public Wi-Fi: a hacker, or the government, or a plain old snoop. Virtual private networks were invented to remedy this problem for businesses. An Israeli app called SaferVPN is being used by individuals and companies (even cyber security telecom enterprises) for greater…
My hill is Desolation Butte, North Fork John Day Ranger District (Ukiah), Umatilla National Forest in Northeast Oregon, and my tower is Desolation. In my post-retirement job as a U.S. Forest Service Fire Lookout, I spend three and a half months, most of the fire season, in a wooden, 15 by 15, 70-foot-tall cabin in…
July 6 is a red-letter day for David Slader – in both his former life as an attorney and his current life as an artist. On July 6, 2004, the Portland Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protection after settling dozens of claims by victims of sexually abusive priests; attorney David Slader represented those victims. Thirteen years…
