Cory Willson has been promoted to director of Neveh Shalom Foundation School in Portland. She has previously held the leadership position of assistant director since 2018. Cory has decades of experience working with children and families. Cory earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Western Oregon University. She has taught in middle school,…
Congregation Neveh Shalom, Israel 360 and Americans for Ben-Gurion University are pleased to invite you to a free online screening of the award-winning documentary, “Ben-Gurion, Epilogue,” to be enjoyed anytime between May 6-19. Then join a free Zoom webinar featuring the film’s director, Yariv Mozer, and moderated by BGU CEO, Doug Seserman, live from…
Photo: Photo taken when the Gloria Bacharach Judaica Gift Shop was named for her, at the behest of Max Birnbach, pictured to Gloria’s left, alongside Rabbi Daniel Isaak, now emeritus, of Neveh Shalom. “The gum. That gum and those kids.” Sue Axel was referring to the individually wrapped Bazooka chewing gum sold for decades…
Photo: From left Emanuel Rose, Yonah Geller and Joshua Stampfer. Courtesy Oregon Public Broadcasting Beginning in the 1950s, when Portland had far fewer coffee shops and most people had never touched a computer, three men arrived, all with the same vocation, to begin work that would impact the lives of thousands of Oregonians. All three…
Rabbi Stampfer has left us. For more than six and a half decades he has been our rabbi, our confidant, our friend and our teacher. He has built community and institutions. He has been ourdugma, our role model for how to live an engaged and purposeful life. And now he has left us for what…
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…
PHOTO: Volunteers pack bags of corn at the Oregon Food Bank at the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Doing Tuesday mitzvah project. In addition to the Jewish Federation, Portland Jewish Academy and Havurah Shalom have recently sent groups to volunteer with Oregon Food Bank. At the dawn of the new millennium, Oregon topped…
PHOTO: Eddy Shuldman and her parents at her bat mitzvah (1966). OJM 07171 The tradition of girls having bat mitzvah ceremonies in the United States is relatively new. Bat mitzvahs weren’t customary until the 1960s, and it took until the 1980s for it to be commonplace for girls to read from the Torah. The…
Ahavath Achim sells Barbur building On April 13, Congregation Ahavath Achim sold its synagogue on Barbur Boulevard to TriMet. Tri-Met has leased the synagogue back to the congregation to use until the congregation’s new synagogue in Hillsdale is completed. The area is slated for development of Westside Light Rail, including a transit stop for…
Rabbi Eve Posen looks forward to her first Passover in Portland and wants to help other women enjoy the holiday, too. As the new youth director and rabbinic educator at Congregation Neveh Shalom, Rabbi Posen’s “Inspirational Women’s Passover Experience” will explore central themes of the seder while providing tips and tricks. Open to Portland’s entire…
