This fall, school will look very different for Oregon students. Maybe it’ll look a lot like this spring. Maybe it’ll be more like last fall. Or very possibly, school will be somewhere in between. The Oregon Department of Education released a blueprint for how schools should operate amid COVID-19. And it’s up to individual schools to…
Photo: Joe with his daughter. By Joe Seitz I am always fascinated by how people respond to challenges. There are optimists, pessimists, different personalities, and all of the conditions of human fabric that make our life at times so beautiful, and so tragic. Much of life is about choices, and most of us know that…
Photo: Kat’s Delivery offers contactless delivery as demonstrated on a Portland resident’s porch. In March, Katrina “Kat” Reffner found herself in the same positions as millions of Americans –unemployed. She had been working as a bartender, and due to the shutdowns in Oregon from COVID-19, now had to find a new source of income. She noticed…
Photo: Health workers at Ziv Medical Center’s coronavirus critical care unit in Safed, April 2, 2020. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90 By Abigail Klein Leichman A group of Israeli mental health professionals has created “Corona Care Israel” in partnership with United Hatzalah of Israel to provide mental health care, grief counseling and emotional stabilization for first…
Photo: Michael Berenbaum, left and Steven M. Wasserstrom will lead a discussion on anti-Semitism amid the challenges we face today in the first event sponsored by the three museums together. While we all have been finding our “new normal” working in solitude, museum directors at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Jewish History Museum…
Photo: Jeremy Sacks Stoel Rives LLP is proud to announce that it has launched the Main Street Relief Project, a no-cost legal service for independent restaurants, bars, and retail establishments in the communities where the firm has offices. “Stoel Rives is deeply connected to the communities in which we live,” says Melissa Jones, firm managing…
How does one celebrate lifecycle events during a pandemic? How do we stay sensitive to the times, keep everyone safe and still have a celebration? Having planned my daughter’s baby shower pre-pandemic, all bets were off on how we would pivot for a virtual baby shower. I quickly realized that there really isn’t a roadmap…
Coronaviruses, named for its crownlike shape, are a large family of viruses that are common in many species of animals. Several coronaviruses can infect people, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. These strains mostly cause cold-like symptoms but can sometimes progress to more complicated lower respiratory tract illnesses, such as pneumonia or…
Photo: Cedar Sinai Park held a Joy Ride parade where all had a grand time. With the toll that the coronavirus has had on senior living facilities across the country, Cedar Sinai Park has been extremely fortunate not to have the virus impact its residents. They have had two COVID-19 positive staff members on campus….
Shalom bayit is the Jewish religious concept of domestic harmony and good relations between husband and wife. In a Jewish court of law, shalom bayit is the Hebrew term for marital reconciliation. It’s understandable if we all have moments when we’re heartbroken, frustrated and scared, but sometimes under extreme stress situations worsen. If you or…
