By Shannon Levitt Rabbi Cahana unpacks supplies from Portland, Oregon, to be donated More than three million refugees have made their way to Poland since Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. With that many people on the move, things could quickly unravel into chaos. Instead, Rabbi Michael Z. Cahana, who was at Poland’s…
Many, many years from now, Andy Olshin hopes his tombstone notes: “He built a thousand homes for the homeless.” To date the coalition he created has built four “safe sleep shelter pods,” which Andy says are “a place to live, but not home. It is temporary shelter.” Two of the mobile shelters have been deployed…
Rabbi Michael Cahana and his Impact Project Group developed “Business for Culture and the Arts,” a training platform for future arts group board members. The BCA group was, from left, Michelle Glass, Allison Rowden, Rabbi Cahana and Parna Mehrbani, as well as in photos held by Cahana Jessica Getman (left) and Emily Teplin-Fox. In 2003…
A capacity crowd of more than 500 people filled the space at Castaway on Feb. 8 to truly get a Taste of Temple. Congregation Beth Israel’s fourth annual friendraiser and FUNdraiser brought together a dynamic and multifaceted committee. CBI clergy (Rabbi Rachel Joseph, Rabbi Michael Cahana and Cantor Ida Rae Cahana, right, embrace chairs Tony…
