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…
To say Margot Feves and her intimate event space Opal 28 had a successful first year would be an understatement. Opal 28 was named Oregon Bride Magazine’s Best New Venue 2014 and won the Portland Business Journal honor as a Better Bricks Commercial Real Estate Retail Project 2014. Margot Talia Feves was named Margot after…
To say Margot Feves and her intimate event space Opal 28 had a successful first year would be an understatement. Opal 28 was named Oregon Bride Magazine’s Best New Venue 2014 and won the Portland Business Journal honor as a Better Bricks Commercial Real Estate Retail Project 2014. Margot Talia Feves was named Margot after…
As a youth she rode horses and played soccer. Now a naturopathic physician, Dr. Christie Winkleman rides and does yoga as part of the healthy lifestyle that makes her a good role model for her clients at Insights to Health, the naturopathic clinic she and her husband, Gil, founded. But in between, “I was in…
As president of both the Oregon Area Jewish Committee and Income Property Management, the company he founded in 1974, Jeff Reingold is aware that human rights and social justice are of paramount importance. Reingold started his two-year term on the OAJC board in June. But the OAJC’s social justice priorities have long been on his…
Who plants trees knowing they’ll never eat the fruit themselves? The Jewish people, that’s who. Jewish tradition exhorts us since our earliest days to recount the story of a man who plants selflessly for the generations to come. When we give through bequests and estate gifts to our Jewish community, we plant not just trees…
Congregation Beth Israel 1972 NW Flanders St. 503-222-2037 www.bethisrael-pdx.org Congregation Beth Israel’s Religious School creates an environment where students in kindergarten through 12th grade learn to be comfortable being Jewish. Younger students (K-5th grade) experience Judaism through their senses; music, art, cooking and stories expose them to the richness of Jewish culture. Intermediate students search…
Winter begins to die, flowers begin to bloom and the sun’s rays start to peek through the clouds. We are ready to dress in simpler, lighter attire. Our thoughts drift to what we might look like in these clothes, and we think about why we just can’t achieve the body we want so badly, no…
The Foundation School at Congregation Neveh Shalom has long been at the forefront of early childhood education. When Rabbi Joshua Stampfer created the city’s first Jewish preschool in 1954, it was also one of the earliest child care facilities registered with the state of Oregon. The school’s license number is 33 – “That would have…
