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Sometimes, when government fails, the Jewish community succeeds.

A lapse in federal appropriations by the United States Congress brought many government services to a halt for a record 43 days beg...

A CNN anchor getting the population of Gaza wrong by 350 percent. Another CNN personality, Christiane Amanpour, said on-air that Israeli hostages held by Hamas experienced better conditions than th...

Every cantor of Congregation Beth Israel’s long history was on hand Friday, Nov. 14, for the installation of the newest of their number, Cantor Rayna Green.

Her predecessors, Cantors Judith Schi...

Last week, P’nai Or hosted a screening of "A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting" at Eastside Jewish Commons. This HBO documentary recounts the story of the October 2018 shooting at t...

Basketball is not always thought of as a particularly Jewish sport. Dolph Schayes, likely the best Jewish basketball player in history, is not remembered in the same way as Sandy Koufax or Hank Gre...

Phoebe Potts was a “professional Jew,” as she describes herself, long before she was professionally funny. But the comedian has been funny since long before she was professionally anything.

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland hosted its latest K-12 Parent Advocacy Night Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Congregation Neveh Shalom because even if the volume of incidents in schools has diminish...

I recently returned from the 2025 Homeland Security Summit, an annual meeting of community security directors across the US and Canada. We number almost 120 now, and 18 of them began after our 2024...

To the extent that the Jewish community has thrived in the U.S., it has been because we live in a democratic, pluralistic society. However, our democratic norms and ideals are now under threat, and...

Because of the different organizational formulas between the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars, in 2025, more than a week separates Oct. 7 and 22 Tishrei; days that were the same two years ago when Ha...

A journalist representing The Jewish Review was preemptively removed from a press conference hosted by four members of the Portland City Council and the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialist...

No good reporter wants to be the story.

It’s baked into us as professionals that the news – the people we cover, the things that our readers care about, the issues and events that matter to th...

Though she’s a lifelong Seattleite, Karen Treiger’s family lineage has roots in some of the early days of Portland’s Jewish community. She’s coming to Portland to talk about them and more.

As a native Portlander whose family has lived here for nearly 120 years, I was hopeful that the new Portland City Council members who were elected in 2024 would work to build consensus and a sense ...

Now that the High Holidays are over, I’m happy to share that my weekly safety and security training series is back on Zoom. Here’s the link so you can head over there right now and register! ht...

A German, a Frenchman and a Jew walk into a bar.
Did you chuckle? Roll your eyes? A bit of both?
That is just the reaction Rabbi David Wolpe wanted to elicit from his audience at the Jewish Federat...

Lindsay Gottlieb knows how to make an impact.

Her first season as the head women’s basketball coach at the University of California, Santa Barbara--her first head coaching job--she won a confere...