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At long last, Portland artists are having their moment on the Jewish art world’s largest stage.

“The One Who Dwells in This House,” curated by Art/Lab Executive Director Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem a...

Vayera (Genesis 18-22): Recap

Vayera opens with Abraham rushing to feed three unexpected visitors (likely angels), who announce that Sarah will, at long last, bear a son. They also share news that...

This week, I’m back in Portland following a trip to Miami for the 10th iteration of the Secure Community Network’s Security Summit. This event is a gathering of security professionals from across t...

Dr. Yosef Rosen, the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland’s Director of Jewish Life and Learning, is back in the classroom.

Rosen is teaching History of Antisemitism this term through Portland St...

Early childhood education can be a challenging field; putting “Jewish” in front of that doesn’t change that. Jewish early childhood education is, however, a huge part of Jewish life for many childre...

Lech Lecha (Genesis 12-17) - Recap

This week’s parsha shifts both focus and style: from the sweeping story of humanity across generations to the detailed lives of Abraham and his household. God ca...

The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland hosted “One Night with Rachel Goldberg-Polin” Sunday, Oct. 11.

The event welcomed nearly 300 people to the Mittleman Jewish Community Center for a convers...

“A day devoted to joy became a day that we struggled to speak about without tears.”

This was Congregation Neveh Shalom Senior Rabbi Eve Posen’s description of that day that a packed ballroom at th...

Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg explained to the audience assembled at the Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County on Tuesday, Oct. 13, that what they were witnessing wasn’t just a presentation – it was a mir...

Schmoozapalooza, the Senior Prom for seniors hosted by Jewish Family & Child Service, is back for a fourth year.

This year’s event, themed around the “Roaring 20s” is scheduled for this Sunday, Oc...

For several years, Secure Community Network has held a long-term vision of creating an objective evaluation process for its security programs. This has been years on the making and starting this mo...

Noah (Genesis 6-11) - Recap

First the flood, then the tower: this week’s Torah portion narrates two core stories that bridge the timeline between Adam and Eve (last week’s parsha) and Abraham and ...

A poster spotted on the University of Oregon campus attacking the head of Oregon Hillel has drawn condemnation from campus leaders, elected officials and Jewish community leaders throughout the sta...

The new (Hebrew) year is shaping up to be one of significant change for Rachel’s Well Community Mikvah.

The mikvah (Jewish ritual bath), owned and operated by the Jewish Federation of Greater Port...

Sukkahs don’t disappear by magic, and they don’t reappear magically, either.

The Oregon Hillel Sukkah at Oregon State University – the first built at the group’s new premises in Corvallis (See “Ne...

While most people know the clarinet’s place in Jewish music primarily by its influence on Klezmer, the instrument is so much more, as Portland’s Rey Abolofia can attest.

He’ll demonstrate the expa...

Many a Jewish wrist is on ice this week, after synagogues across the world rolled their Torah scrolls from the last verse all the way back to the first verse. We’re back at the beginning now: the b...

What passes for involvement in public life looks different today than it did in the recent past.

“I think we’ve lost so much of that in in so many different ways over the last decades and years. A...