Cedar Sinai Park has hired Martin W. Baicker, FACHE, as the new CEO of Cedar Sinai Park. Marty is currently president/CEO of JGS Lifecare (formerly Jewish Geriatric Services) in Longmeadow, MA. He will begin his new post after he and his family relocate from Massachusetts; CSP estimates a start date of Oct. 1. “He has…
PHOTO: From Cedar Mill Car Show Facebook By Jason Mueller Before Rosh Hashana arrives in September and while the summer sun is still shining bright in the sky, car enthusiasts from all over the state will be filing into the local area to take part in some of the coolest car shows in the…
Portland’s Jewish Family and Child Service is helping spread the word about free breakfast and lunch opportunities for school-age children in need of food. Across America, millions of children rely on school meals. But in the summer, those meals disappear. If you have or know of a school-age student in need of breakfast and/or lunch…
(PHOTO, from left) Nefesh B’Nefesh Co-Founder and Executive Director Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, Vivian Grossman (sponsor of the Young Leadership prize), Captain Libby Weiss, Minister of Regional Cooperation Tzachi Hanegbi, Nefesh B’Nefesh Co-Founder and Chairman Tony Gelbart at the June 26 Bonei Zion Prize presentation at Israel’s Knesset. Portland native Libby Weiss received the 2017 Sylvan…
Gail Mandel honored for leadership legacy giving Gail Mandel was awarded the national Gail Littman Leadership Award for outstanding leadership in integrating legacy giving into the culture of the Oregon Jewish Community at the 2017 National Legacy Gathering in Springfield, MA, co-hosted by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and the Jewish Federations of North American. In…
Portland Police Honor Guard post the colors to honor those who have served our country at Cedar Sinai Park’s Memorial Day Program held in Zidell Hall at Rose Schnitzer Manor May 29. CSP interim executive director David Fuks, shown here watching the honor guard, was on hand to help honor the 36 veterans living on…
Teacher and students – you can turn your frustration into action. Wholistic Peace Institute is offering grants to schools for Peace or Human Rights Clubs or Project. Application Deadline for highest priority is June 15. Rabbi Joshua Stampfer calls Educating for Peace the Wholistic Peace Institute “the only organization that is solely advancing peace in…
Around three o’clock, just after the traditional two-hour lunch break, they would begin gathering in front of the Harbor Master’s little office at the port, by the small fishing skiffs bobbing in the crystal-clear water of the France’s Côte d’Azur. One by one, this group of seven or eight pensioners – fishermen or shipbuilders since…
For Israel Fellow Eyal Ben Zeev, the BDS movement is an opportunity to build relationships with students – to inform and support them as their campus community promotes an agenda to delegitimize Israel. Having spent two years as an Israel fellow at the multi-campus Metro Chicago Hillel, he was the ideal candidate to come to…
Nominate the 2017 Harry Glickman Scholar Athlete of the Year Applications must be submitted by midnight, Nov. 30, 2016. The Oregon Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and the Mittleman Jewish Community Center are seeking applications for a male and a female high school student as its Harry Glickman Scholar Athletes of the Year. Any Jewish…
