Julie Diamond, retiring president and C.E.O. of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation has been awarded the Allan Price Award for Distinguished Service to the Fundraising Profession. This award recognizes fundraising professionals who demonstrate exceptional skill and enthusiasm for their work, who pursue big ideas and successfully engage others in achieving them, and who inspire…
Arnold (“Jin”) Zidell has poured his mind, soul and wealth into Blue Planet Network, whose goal is as vast as the ocean: to bring safe drinking water to hundreds of millions of people in developing nations. Now he is dedicating his body to the cause. Never mind that it’s a 73-year-old body. Since August, that…
Just before Purim, Rabbi Shawn Fields-Meyer returned to her native Portland to address the annual women’s Impact event where she urged women to reflect on Esther’s discovery that perhaps we are where we are at a particular time for a reason. The rabbi was the featured speaker at “Impact: Ripples of Hope-Waves of Change,” the…
Maimonides Jewish Day School raised $90,000 as it honored Gersham Goldstein before 180 attendees at their annual dinner March 14 in the Benson Hotel’s Mayfair Ballroom. Tribute was paid to Goldstein by his children, Deborah and Marcus Goldstein, by Rabbi Moshe Wilhelm, director of Chabad of Oregon; and by Federation’s past Executive Vice President Charles…
