A Sephardic Portland Walking Tour is offered Sept. 7 in conjunction with the “Vida Sefaradi: A Century of Sephardic Life in Portland” exhibit currently on display at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. On Sept. 7, from 11 am to 12:30 pm, enjoy a Sephardic-focused walking tour of South Portland including a…
Renate Dollinger was a landscape painter with a small gallery in Palo Alto, CA, a husband, four children and lots of dogs when, in 1968, at the age of 44, she suddenly turned to painting life in a shtetl. “Cute,” her husband said when he saw the first painting. “Where did that come from?” “I don’t know,” she replied. Here’s what…
“People I know and love have been afflicted with this disease. People I love have died from Alzheimer’s.” I don’t know anybody who doesn’t know somebody who has – or had – Alzheimer’s. My mother had Alzheimer’s and passed away in 2002. In 2010, 1,300 Oregonians died from Alzheimer’s. Today more than 76,000 Oregonians age…
