B’nai B’rith Camp is planning its first-ever weekend for adults ages 23-35. Young adults are invited to enjoy a weekend of camp fun, adult-style, Aug. 26-28 near Lincoln City on the Oregon coast. Last Day of Camp is a full weekend of the summer camp experience you remember, but without the training wheels. This weekend…
Just 22 years old, Jennie Spector has already taken steps to elevate women’s voices on the bimah and the world stage. From her bat mitzvah decision to her college co-op in Istanbul, she has worked to move women’s voices onto equal footing with those of men. The daughter of Marshal Spector and Sharon Pollin, Jennie…
Over the past several years, there has been a rising hostility toward Jewish students amid increasingly aggressive anti-Israel campaigns on many American college campuses. Finally, one public university system has done something about it. In late March, the University of California’s Board of Regents adopted a statement declaring that anti-Semitism, including what it called “anti-Semitic…
By Kelsey Kaplan and Michelle Chernack We started out in Hillel as lost and confused freshmen, unsure of what our college lives were going to consist of and how our Jewish identities would fit in. Flash forward four years, and we now find ourselves at our last Jews and Brews and Bagel Breaks, still questioning…
Calling Israel an apartheid state is an injustice to both Israel and South Africa; that’s according to two black South African students who visited U.S. campuses this spring, including two in Portland. Klaas Mokgomole and Jamie Mithi were accompanied by Jewish South African Benji Shulman from the South Africa Israel Forum. Over the past year SAIF has…
A shifting band of young adults who have been not-so-quietly building grassroots Jewish life for themselves and their peers for nearly a decade will have space for a new face come May. Portland Moishe House opened Jan. 1, 2008, joining 13 U.S. and eight international houses designed to help young, innovative Jews create their vision…
High school students and their parents are invited to a Jewish College Night program March 14 at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center. This free joint program of Portland Area Jewish Educators (a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland) and the MJCC runs from 6:30 to 8 pm. The evening will present information about…
By Yvette Alex-Asensoh Niccolo Machiavelli once said, “It is better to be feared than loved.” Whether it is the news or social media, the sentiment seems to be the same. Fear and divisiveness are the things grabbing eyeballs and driving ad dollars. Near the top of this list of fears is xenophobia. In light of…
