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! https://jewishportland.org/events/security-training. I’ve spoken before about the challenges of…
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 Federation of Greater Portland’s recent annual Cornerstone event Thursday, Sept. 11. It’s the…
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 conference championship. In her second year at her next head job, at UC Berkeley, she made the NCAA Fi…
The Spertus Center for Jewish Learning and Leadership, the Chicago-based center for Jewish adult education, is bringing Dr. Dean Bell to Portland for a pair of presentations Wednesday, Oct. 29 at Congregation Neveh Shalom. The first, a Lunch and Learn session for Jewish communal…
I ran a similar version of this article back in 2023, and it seems like a good time to revisit the topic. Organizations and individuals are deep in the High Holidays, and it’s not the time to stop mid-stream and re-vamp your safety plans. But it is time to assess if you are finding any gap…
