The Jewish New Year of 5781 will be greeted in dramatically different fashion than the way we welcomed the years before COVID. When Rosh Hashanah begins the eve of Sept. 18, COVID-19 will keep many who normally attend High Holiday services at home. Congregations are planning a variety of…
“This year is going to be different,” said Kesser Israel Rabbi Kenneth Brodkin in the introduction to a Zoom conversation he and his wife, Aviel, led about celebrating the holidays during a pandemic. Rabbi Brodkin offered some practical tips for celebrating at home.
Despite the limitations of a worldwide pandemic, many events, mitzvah opportunities and services are on tap to celebrate and observe the High Holy Days in 2020 including Mitzvah Morning to aid hungry and homeless on Sept. 27, and BB Camp Rosh Hashanah fall family kickoff events.
Most students in Oregon have begun the school year in online or distance-learning settings. The three Portland-area Jewish day schools each received funds from the Greater Portland Jewish Community COVID Emergency Fund to support distance learning.
PSU professor explores shtetl’s destitute, disabled, mad
Portland State University Professor Natan M. Meir’s Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 was published in July by Stanford University Press. Combining archival research wit…
