On Thursday, Feb. 13, as you head home from work in the chilly dark of a late Portland winter, you can end your day in musical contemplation. Congregation Beth Israel presents the first in a new series of three free mini-concerts called Music Under the Dome. “I want to bring people in to our sacred…
Tel Aviv is a perfect city for tourists and people who love having fun. Its passion for life gives rise to every possible type of evening entertainment. Called the city that never stops, Tel Aviv lives up to this description every day of the week from dawn to dusk and from dusk to dawn. Tel…
“What’s up, Doc?” The man behind that question may be Oregon’s best-known Jewish export to Hollywood. Mel Blanc, “The Man of 1,000 Voices,” spoke for Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird and hundreds of other animated characters for Warner Brothers studios and other producers over a career spanning six decades….
With summer around the corner, parents and kids can start gearing up for some fun local activities that they may not have tried before. For locals and tourists alike, summer in Oregon has a magical quality. Restaurants spill onto the streets, serving fresh bread and local cuisine at sidewalk tables, kids who are almost translucent…
Filmmaker and TV personality Boaz Frankel has lived in New York; Washington, DC; and Seattle, but he always seems to find his way back home to Portland. Growing up in Southwest Portland near Multnomah Village, Frankel attended Portland Jewish Academy and Wilson High School before making his way to the Big Apple to attend NYU’s…
