PHOTOS: Featuring UV Sterilization, the next-gen LIZ Smart Bottle helps users live a healthier, active lifestyle while reducing plastic waste from single use bottles. NOERDEN introduced LIZ Smart Bottle July 30. A next-gen self-cleaning smart bottle with UV sterilization & hydration reminders, LIZ helps users live a healthier, active lifestyle by providing them with clean…
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: The Magnificent Seven: BBYO alumni plan a reunion for BBYO members from 1966-70. Plans are firming up for the BBYO 50ish year reunion in September. A group of former BBYO participants are planning a reunion for alumni from the Evergreen Region, which includes chapters in Oregon and Washington. BBYOers from 1966 to 1970 are…
PHOTOS: Above, Nouveau Bistro at Feast Portland last year. Right, tastes from Grand Tasting and Smoked (far right) at last year’s Feast. Photos by Alan Weiner. Now in its eighth year, Portland’s biggest food festival promises to impress both locals and natives alike. The festival attracts thousands of foodies each year with a jam-packed schedule…
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…
As part of a philanthropic initiative to make culturally important records available to everyone, Ancestry – the global leader in family history and consumer genomics – has announced the release of two unique Holocaust record collections. These new records will be accessible globally to the public – members and nonmembers alike – on ancestry.com/alwaysremember on…
PHOTO: Rabbi Susan Silverman, center, with Women of the Wall in Jerusalem. Av begins Aug. 2, 2019. Photo by Hila Shiloni By Rabbi Susan Silverman As Av approaches, and with it the Nine Days, we are drawn to the Kotel — in our souls, with our bodies or, for some, both. We recall destruction that…
By Jules Hopkins Your kitchen is your sanctuary — a place where steaks are seared, the mail is opened and sorted, midnight snacks are eaten, and grandma’s chocolate chip cookies are baked. To better the flow of your kitchen, you might be considering some remodeling. Luckily — you might not have to spend as…
