Dear Helen: Can you give me some very practical tips to prepare for a phone interview? I know I could do the job if I get it. But there’s a pre-screening interview – 30 minutes with one person – before an interview with the whole team. I need to pass this test to get to…
Dear Helen: I’m once divorced, then single six years after another long-term relationship in which I repeated all the mistakes of my first. Now that I’ve taken the time to do my emotional homework, I’m ready for something healthier and happier. I’ve made “The List” for what I want in my next (and hopefully last)…
When you have two Jews, you have three opinions. That’s the old joke, but history – and Oregon Jewish history – is instructive: Religious “wars” pepper our past as much as they populate today’s headlines. The pistol-packing rabbi? A “lockout” at a local shul? Fights over kosher meat? It’s all there, and more. The Bible…
When I moved from sunny Colorado to the Pacific Northwest 20 years ago, it seemed to me it rained every day. I missed the semi-desert Front Range and the Rocky Mountains outside my window. With my sons in preschool, I enjoyed visiting the nearby Oregon coast to let them play in the sand and splash…
When I was young, I often visited my grandmother in the nursing home where she lived after a series of strokes left her unable to live alone. While the nursing home was bright and clean, it felt like a hospital. After she died, I often heard my parents say they hoped they wouldn’t have to…
Each month Oregon Jewish Life will ask a group of rabbis, cantors, educators and/or members of the community a question relevant to the season or a theme in that issue. For April, we asked rabbis to reflect on Passover’s message of freedom. Rabbi Glenn Ettman Temple Beth Tikvah, Bend The holiday of Passover is the…
Dear Helen: I’m a nice Jewish guy in my 40s, only divorced once, with one adult son in med school. I teach college math (tenured at a decent school), am decent looking (not Hollywood handsome but reasonably featured), in decent shape (neither gym buff nor overtly puffy). I own my own home, have savings, can…
