PHOTO: Rather than spend another year of college online, Jesse Rothstein (in mask) headed for Israel on a Masa Journey. Here he joins other Masa participants at the Kotel (Western Wall).
BY JESSE ROTHSTEIN
When I was sent home from Chapman University in Orange, Calif., in March 2020, we we…
PHOTO: Second from left, Mitchell Kaiser, from Vancouver, Wash., participated in SciTech in 2013.
BY DEBORAH MOON
Local high schoolers with an aptitude in STEM are invited to apply for SciTech 2021, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology’s summer international science research ca…
BY OLIVER TWAIN
As a student at the University of Oregon, I moved home in March to finish the term virtually. If I’m being honest, I didn’t love taking my courses from home.
I had been to Israel on the Alexander Muss program for a semester during my junior year in high school. One of my…
BY DEBORAH MOON
A humorous play on elder advocacy by Portland Jewish playwright Darlene Zimbardi comes to the virtual world in February as part of the Fertile Ground Festival of New Work 2021.
A program of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance, Fertile Ground will present 37 projects for the 12…
BY DEBORAH MOON
Portland Jewish Academy seventh-grader Jake Chisholm did not let a global pandemic interfere with his yearlong community service project to raise funds for the Portland Backpack Project. The project provides backpacks full of food to kids who are experiencing food insecurity…
