From time to time, we all get stuck. Lifestyles are chaotic and living spaces are mired in stuff we no longer need. Frantic mornings are impeded by misplaced keys or cell phones. School forms requiring signatures are presented while the school bus waits at the curb. Tax time is a nightmare because receipts are scattered…
PHOTO: Israel Sci-Tech Schools Director General Zvi Peleg, left, talks to students in the Air Force program in Kfar Saba. Israel Sci-Tech Schools, the largest independent network of science and technology educational institutions in Israel, will convene an international conference on Nov. 29 in Jerusalem that will focus on correcting global deficiencies in STEM…
PHOTO: Camp Solomon Executive Director Schechter Sam Perlin welcomes the campers from Sephardic Adventure Camp to the CSS facility. Photo by Kaia D’Albora On Monday, Aug. 1, the Sephardic Adventure Camp, an Orthodox Jewish camp from Washington State, was evacuated from their campsite in eastern Washington due to a nearby forest fire. Consistent with…
PHOTO: French Jews from Lyon, Nice, Paris, and Toulouse fleeing anti-Semitism and terror in France arrive in Israel. Photo courtesy of The Fellowship. TEL AVIV– Propelled by worsening anti-Semitism and increasing radical Islamic terror, some 150 French Jews arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport July 20 on a special International Fellowship of Christians and…
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education members packed the museum’s theater for OJMCHE June 29 annual meeting. Out-going president David Newman (inset) announced that the museum was close finalizing the purchase a permanent home for the museum, news that was confirmed on July 6 (see story). The meeting was also the opportunity to…
Photo by Eden Swartz The Oregon Jewish Community Foundation named Steve and Elaine Kantor as the 2016 OJCF Legacy Society Honorees, and recognized their leadership and generosity at the foundation’s Annual Meeting and Reception on June 15 at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center. Foundation President-Elect Steve Laveson, and others, honored the Kantors, noting their considerable…
PHOTOS: Dani L. and Norman; IGDCB CEO and Founder Noach Braunwith one of man’s best friends. Distributed by the American Jewish Press Association Israel Guide Dog Center for the Blind is one of only 49 charities to receive a perfect score of 100% from Charity Navigator. IGDCB’s sound fiscal management practices and commitment to accountability…
More than 150 people filled the Ashland Community Center on June 19 to witness a Jewish scribe slowly ink the last 20 of the Hebrew letters on the Torah scroll with a turkey feather. Every letter of a Torah scroll is exact just like it was received by Moses on Mount Sinai. It is artistically…
Jordan Schnitzer’s Harsch Investment Properties has told Verity Baptist Church that it’s lease will not be renewed and asking the church to consider leaving early without penalty. The notice came after the pastor of the Sacramento church praised the Orlando shooter who killed 49 patrons of a gay bar. For the full story see the…
In the week following the shooting that killed 49 and injured 53 patrons of a gay nightclub in Orlando, Portland congregations and rabbis reacted to what was reportedly the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Several congregations, including Havurah Shalom and Congregation Neveh Shalom (above), and Congregation Beth Israel, marched in the June 19 Portland…
