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ElevatEd, the national partnership to support the next generation of Jewish Early Childhood Educators, is coming to Portland.

Five Jewish preschools in the area are participating in the third coho...

There are hundreds of chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America across the United States, but Portland’s stands out in a number of ways, as staff from the Anti-Defamation League explained in...

Members of Congregations Beth Israel and Neveh Shalom had a unique experience as they filed into Kabbalat Shabbat service the evening of Friday, Aug. 28.

The congregants of Portland’s two largest ...

For the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Fourth Annual Preschool Day of Learning, keynote speaker Dr. Noah Hichenberg suggested something bigger than what might otherwise come out of a profe...

When is food more than just a meal?

One answer to that question rests on Devora Wilhelm’s dining room table every Friday morning. Rows of small bags, each filled with a Shabbat dinner made just a ...

Cancer is scary. Delving into the realities of genetic predispositions for cancer can also be scary, especially if, like many Ashkenazi Jews, you have a higher-than-average likelihood of carrying c...

Kelly Lyon has loved The Muppets since her formative days. Now, her work on their return to television may net her a second Emmy award.

Lyon, a Portland-based film editor, has been nominated for O...

Rabbi Chaim Wilhelm wanted to do something different for his 40th birthday.

“I wanted to do something for the whole community,” he said.

So, he threw a party. About 70 people came. There was musi...

After 33 years in Oregon newspaper, Steve Law decided to give back to his community by getting involved with Friends of Mount Tabor Park. From there, he found the subject of his book.

“Peddlers of...

The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland is very excited to be hosting Portland’s first-ever Jewish Festival on Sunday, Aug. 30. Jewish festivals are celebrated throughout the United States year-r...

Summers are often a quiet time of year for Hillels on college campuses. For Oregon Hillel, serving the University of Oregon in Eugene and Oregon State University in Corvallis, it’s been anything bu...

Natan Meir has been appointed the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Meir will depart from his current position as ...

Naomi Leavitt, the Community Liaison at Cedar Sinai Park, had a problem; the kind of problem that, it turned out, was best solved with a party.

Saturday afternoons at Rose Schnitzer Manor are quie...

High Holidays start early this year, and organizations are deep into planning. There are many elements at play when ensuring a safe and secure series of observances across so many days. Hours of wo...

Even up to the last moments, athletes and delegations from around the world were unsure if the 2026 Maccabiah would take place. But it did, and the spectacle of the opening ceremonies, the rigorous...

Oracolor, the color-coded, Torah-infused self-discovery tool by Portland’s Debbie Plawner, is getting a broader audience in formats both large and small.

Oracolor began as a deck of 52 cards which...

Judge Roy Altman’s presentation at Congregation Neveh Shalom Sunday, Aug. 2, was not an average book talk. In fact, the author of “Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law”...

Richard Freimark has something in common with approximately 96,000 other Americans.

He needs a kidney.

Kidney disease is an unfortunately common story. What’s perhaps less common is that, despite...