Jewish Family & Child Service board of directors voted unanimously to appoint Ruth Scott as executive director: “She has always been the right person for the job.” Ruth recruited Hannah Holstein as the new development director effective Sept. 8.
Nearly six months into our COVID-19 experience, I am struck by the ways in which I have seen community strengthen each other. I look to signs from the “quaran-baking” and sharing of those delicious treats on the doorsteps of neighbors and friends, to the mutual offers of grocery pickups…
MJCC to reopen pools, courts, sportsplex; MJCC Enrichment Camps begin; Chabad welcomes Reed freshmen; PSU classes begin on Yom Kippur; New Wise Aging session; JFCS hires finance manager; Monthly Mitzvah: Mezuzah; Families parade through Big Truck Day
The focus on racial justice, fairness, privilege, humanity and empathy arising in our reality of COVID-19 and protests may be “a chance to … transform the way we think about prisoners and build a less expensive system about genuine justice.
COVID-19 has changed how we live our lives, and now how we celebrate our High Holy Days. We must continue to protect ourselves and others from potential exposure. Oregon has reached 28,661 total cases, and 501 people have died as of Sept. 11, 2020.
