Photo: left to right: Austin Rosen, Afo Verde, Diane Warren, Harvey Mason Jr. and Ben Maddahi On Thursday, October 7th, Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) held its third annual “Celebrating Ambassadors Of Peace” (AOP) event in Beverly Hills. This year’s honorees were: Harvey Mason jr., (CEO of the Recording Academy/Grammys); Diane Warren (Grammy Award Winning & 12 Time…
Photo: Author Linda Cohen and the cover of her latest book. It’s been proven that kindness in the workplace has a stunning ROI. Kindness decreases stress, reduces employee burnout, and builds increasing levels of happiness and satisfaction in the workplace. Imagine a company culture where employees feel valued, recognized, and empowered enough to go…
Beaverton High School just got a big boost: a nearly $2 million donation from an alumnus. Scott Shleifer, who graduated from Beaverton High in 1995, is now a successful financial investor. In an effort to give back to his community, he chose to donate $1.8 million to the Beaverton High School Success Fund, a…
Photo: Textile artist Bonnie Meltzer The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education’s exhibition “Mending the Social Fabric” by textile artist Bonnie Meltzer has at its core a parachute with a 314-foot circumference that is encircled by 75 handkerchiefs embroidered with text that amplifies the embedded themes. Mounted behind the parachute are textiles…
Today, the leadership of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (Orthodox Union), the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, applauded the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the bipartisan Iron Dome Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022 (H.R. 5323), which provides $1 billion to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system to help the Jewish State…
Photo: From left: Juli and Rick Barde, Jorden Cohen, Sallie Cohen, Karen Fairfield. Positive Charge! PDX is a local 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is open to everyone, with a mission to make a positive impact on a collective scale by doing good deeds, sharing good news, and building community. They create opportunities for the public to…
The first poll to specifically examine rates of anti-Semitism among college students who claim a strong sense of Jewish identity and connection to Israel finds that, among this group, students are feeling unsafe and, as a result, are learning that to avoid anti-Semitism they must view their religion as something to hide, not celebrate….
Right after Yom Kippur is over, Jews throughout Israel and the rest of the world busy themselves building temporary “huts” called sukkot (plural; the singular is sukkah). The sukkah can range from a basic design decorated with posters and paper chains to more elaborate structures adorned with draperies and chandeliers. Most of the requirements…
Homemade Gravlax Eating lox this time of year connects our own process of “teshuvah” with salmon’s seasonal “return.” GET THE RECIPE More-Vegetable-Than-Egg Frittata This simple frittata — just eggs, vegetables, fresh herbs and a little Parmesan if you’re feeling luxurious — is proof that eating well doesn’t have to be…
By Haim Silberstein At Yom Kippur, Israel grinds to a halt. For 25 hours, schools, restaurants and businesses shut down, roads empty out as driving is prohibited, and there are no buses, no trains, and no planes. Known as the Day of Atonement, it’s the holiest day in the Jewish calendar when religious Israelis…
