The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education will once again welcome visitors, masked and socially distanced, to ground floor exhibits beginning Aug. 6 from 11 am to 3 pm, Thursday through Saturday.
Due to limited occupancy, all vis...

Many individuals are on the brink of economic catastrophe as they face the triple whammy of a pandemic, unemployment and a national government unable to agree on a new relief bill.
But thanks to the Jewish community’s Greater Portland COVID-19-E...

A cohort of seven Portland-area young adults completed a three-week fellowship to become Jewish Changemakers. More than 550 young adults from 80 cities and eight countries graduated July 27 from the program presented by the Jewish Federations of N...

Karen Twain will facilitate Zoom conversations with parents of middle school and high school students on Aug. 9 and 10. She will also facilitate a conversation with parents of kids with special needs on Aug. 19 at 8:30 pm.

Let My Parents Work is a Facebook group created to connect Jewish families, recent college grads, educators and caregivers to fill the child-care gap. Parents are going to need help with their kids this year. Whether school is online, hybrid or so...

At a July 28 press conference, Governor Kate Brown shared state policies regarding the re-opening of schools in September. She cited new health metrics developed by the Oregon Department of Education and the Oregon Health Authority that must be me...

Portland Area Jewish Educators has shifted both the content and logistics of this year’s professional development programs to meet the needs and reality of life during a pandemic. PAJE has planned three virtual programs beginning in August: Tech...

A local nonprofit created to provide construction training and tiny homes for houseless Portlanders is handcrafting and selling picnic tables. Families and restaurants could buy the tables to expand outdoor dining options and support the nonprofit...

As the effects of the pandemic are prolonged, social issues are exacerbated and volunteerism is needed more than ever. We encourage Jewish community members to volunteer, connect and make a difference in the greater Portland community to do our pa...

Catlin Gabel School students Abby Fisher and Donnie Reuther won first and second place, respectively, in Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity’s 2020 Writing, Art and Film Contest. Eliza Robinson won second place in the middle school writing...

Image: Forsaken Souls by Erika Leung.
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education traditionally announces the winners of the annual Sala Kryszek Art & Writing Competition for middle and high school students by Yom Hashoah. However,...

Local teen tapped for national post; JCRC joins push to fund mail-in voting; Weekly Wednesday evolves to become Thoughtful Thursday – first program Sept. 24; Lisa Spiegel new Hesed Shel Emet administrator; Learn resources for Wise Aging in Septemb...

Congregation Beth Israel has hired Cantor Rayna Green part time. Before attending cantorial school, Cantor Green served at Congregation Beth Israel as a preschool teacher, youth group advisor, song leader, co-founder of Jews Next Dor and a member ...

Oregon Hillel has added two staff members for the coming school year: Talia Leider, Social Justice Springboard Fellow at the University of Oregon in Eugene, and Susannah Dickerson, Director of Jewish Student Life at Oregon State University in Corv...

JFGP’s Jewish Community Relations Council develops and articulates consensus positions concerning matters of public importance on behalf of its constituency. The following State Budget Summary and Impact on JCRC Legislative Priorities was prepar...

PDX Business Series: Build Your Biz and Eat it Too; After "Spy Behind Home Plate," MJCC offers "Heading Home;" BB Camp and BBYO plan busy August; Relational engagement during social distancing.

If there’s one thing everyone in the world can agree on right now, it’s that it has been a crazy year so far. At the risk of penning yet another COVID-centric piece in a world awash with them, I’ve taken the approaching five-month mark as re...

For centuries, Tisha B'Av was our tribal date, focused on our tribal suffering and loss. But what if we view Tisha B’Av through a universal lens? It can be a holiday to connect with everyone for whom systematic discrimination, persecution and vi...

Erev Rosh Hashanah is about six weeks away, but in case you haven’t thought about it yet, the High Holidays are going to be...different this year. In order for them to serve their purpose, we’re going to need to spend time preparing ourselves.

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A recent national study and 17 years of anecdotal evidence from the Oregon Jewish Community Youth Foundation agree: “Jewish teen philanthropy experiences cultivate a lasting desire to change the world while strengthening teens’ connections to...

A month after he was unexpectedly sworn in as Portland’s police chief, Charles Lovell told a Zoom gathering that his goal is “to help put the community and police bureau back together … and give some healing and some hope.” The July 13 vir...