Community Relations Council gets report on state budget & impact

JFGP’s Jewish Community Relations Council develops and articulates consensus positions concerning matters of public importance on behalf of its constituency. The following State Budget Summary and Impact on JCRC Legislative Priorities was prepared July 27, 2020, by JCRC’s lobbyist…

Event Briefs Aug. 5

PDX Business Series: Build Your Biz and Eat it Too; After "Spy Behind Home Plate," MJCC offers "Heading Home;" BB Camp and BBYO plan busy August; Relational engagement during social distancing.

Guest Column: Life Happens!

If there’s one thing everyone in the world can agree on right now, it’s that it has been a crazy year so far. At the risk of penning yet another COVID-centric piece in a world awash with them, I’ve taken the approaching five-month mark as reason to step back and think about everything…

Chaplain's Corner: It's time to be universal

For centuries, Tisha B'Av was our tribal date, focused on our tribal suffering and loss. But what if we view Tisha B’Av through a universal lens? It can be a holiday to connect with everyone for whom systematic discrimination, persecution and violence are not abstract concepts, but all…

Rabbi's Corner: Start your High Holidays Now

Erev Rosh Hashanah is about six weeks away, but in case you haven’t thought about it yet, the High Holidays are going to be...different this year. In order for them to serve their purpose, we’re going to need to spend time preparing ourselves.