Support for Rabbi Cahana”s Ukraine aid mission continues to inspire; monetary donations now exceed $48,000, five duffle bags have been filled with baby formula, antiseptics, and disinfectants, and Lufthansa and Alaska Airlines have committed to waiving excess bag fees to help get this much-needed support to JCC Krakow as soon as possible. On his Facebook…
PHOTOS: Above, Children received backpacks full of donations from Portland in the Tijuana shelters (some had to cover their faces for safety reasons). At left, Jon Cohen helps drivers Emily Wanderer Cohen and Lisa Tutmark pack a car with filled backpacks that were delivered to the Little Mercies social workers. Courtesy of Sallie Cohen Positive…
PHOTO: Lois Schnitzer and many of her daughters joined OJCF for its 2019 Annual Meeting and Legacy Celebration. Pictured from left: Gayle Romain, Rita Philip, Lois Schnitzer, Jill Edelson and Mardi Spitzer. Photo by Victor Paru The Leonard and Lois Schnitzer Charitable Supporting Foundation of OJCF Is Now Accepting Applications The Oregon Jewish Community Foundation…
PHOTO: On Tisha b’Av, Jewish eyes turn toward the Western Wall. This year Jews should also focus on the threat of climate change. Reducing climate change is an especially important issue for Israel as a rising Mediterranean Sea could inundate the coastal plain where much of Israel’s population and infrastructure are located, and an increasingly…
PHOTO: Benjamin Olshin with the Babies With Books cart at Randall Children’s Hospital. Benjamin will receive the Youth in Philanthropy award Nov. 12 from the Association of Fundraising Professionals. At age 14, Benjamin founded the nonprofit Babies With Books. The Jewish community will be well represented when the Oregon and SW Washington chapter of the…
PHOTO: Last year, Pete McDowell (orange shirt) helped the Bobcat operator return a displaced gravestone to its rightful spot in the Bialystok, Poland, cemetery, that was vandalized during and after the Holocaust. Oregonian Pete McDowell headed for Poland on Aug. 1 to spend his summer vacation restoring a heavily damaged and vandalized Jewish cemetery….
The first shipment of Positive Charge! PDX collections for migrant children in Mexico at the U.S. border is on the way. Little Mercies will deliver the donations to children in shelters in Mexico on the border in Tijuana. The donations will go to migrant and refugee children fleeing Central America. “We have had such outstanding…
PHOTO: Husan and his mother. Photo courtesy of SACH Save a Child’s Heart announced July 23 that 2-year-old Husan Anvarov from Uzbekistan underwent successful lifesaving heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center. SACH brought the boy to Israel, and Uzbekistan became the 60th developing country served by Israel’s largest international humanitarian organization. Husan, his mother, father and twin brother…
PHOTO: Two northern leopard froglets in the Oregon Zoo’s conservation lab. The zoo’s pilot recovery program is a great example of tikkun olam – repair the world. Photo by Michael Durham, courtesy of the Oregon Zoo. Hundreds of imperiled northern leopard frogs will be hopping back into the wild soon, thanks to a pilot recovery…
The Mittleman Jewish Community Center has granted Cascadia Clusters permission to use the northern edge of the playing field as a site to build “tiny houses.” These structures will be moved to other locations as they are completed. Cascadia Clusters was founded by Andy Olshin, who developed his concept and displayed two tiny homes built…
